CN103280017A

CN103280017A - Coin counter

Info

Publication number: CN103280017A
Application number: CN2013101611972A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 徐彪; 罗一平; 耿海洋; 王汇龙; 王晓聪
Original assignee: Shanghai University of Engineering Science
Current assignee: Shanghai University of Engineering Science
Priority date: 2013-05-03
Filing date: 2013-05-03
Publication date: 2013-09-04
Anticipated expiration: 2033-05-03
Also published as: CN103280017B

Abstract

The invention relates to a coin counter. The coin counter is characterized in that the coin counter comprises N parallel rollers; the gap between every two rollers is a first gap, which is slightly larger than the diameter of a coin; the rollers are fixed in the upper part of a housing, and the gap between each of the rollers at both ends and the sidewall of the housing is a second gap, which is slightly larger than the diameter of the coin; dispensing hoppers are arranged below the rollers respectively, corresponding to the first gaps and the second gaps, at least N plus 1 dispensing hoppers in total; guide tubes are arranged below the dispensing hoppers, the inner diameter of each guide tube is smaller than the first gap and the second gap and greater than the diameter of the coin, light source sensors are arranged on the guide tubes, coins drop via the guide tubes to pass the light source sensors, and are counted one by one, and counted data is outputted by a panel display; the lower ends of the guide tubes correspond to a storage box; a belt sequentially passes through a roller pulley of each roller, and is driven by a power source to drive the rollers to rotate, so that the neighboring rollers rotate in opposite directions; and N is an odd number, and is equal to or greater than 3.

Description

Coin counter

Technical field

The present invention relates to a kind of coin counter, belong to the counter technical field.

Background technology

Coin value is generally lower, and the maximum face amount of common Renminbi coin only is 1 yuan, so quantity is more, if rely on artificial counting, need expend very big manpower, therefore often needs to use coin counter to finish counting.

Existing coin counter, often need earlier coin to be formed independent neat transmission passage, count by corresponding sensing device successively then, form the neat transmission passage of this independence and need use a large amount of software and hardware facilities, and automatic control technology, could realize.Its electronic control technology complexity, cost is higher, and error rate is higher, and reliability is lower.And often the speed of coin counting is slower, and efficient is lower.

Summary of the invention

The present invention aims to provide a kind of coin counter, can enough avoid in advance coin being sorted in turn, forms independent neat transmission passage, and the special physical construction of utilizing counter self realizes the counting accurately and rapidly to coin.

The present invention takes following technical scheme:

A kind of coin counter is characterized in that: comprise N parallel cylinder 3, described cylinder 3 spacing in twos is first spacing, and described first spacing is slightly larger than coin diameter; Described cylinder is fixed on the top of body shell 12, and the cylinder 3 at two ends is second spacing with the spacing of body shell 12 sidewalls, and described second spacing is slightly larger than the diameter of coin; Corresponding described first spacing in described cylinder 3 belows, each is provided with a branch hopper 4 at least the second spacing place, is total to N+1 branch hopper 4 at least; Hopper 4 belows were provided with guide barrel 6 in described minute, the internal diameter of described guide barrel 6 is less than described first spacing and second spacing and greater than coin diameter, described guide barrel 6 is provided with light source sensor 5, coin falls through guide barrel 6, through described light source sensor 5, count successively, and by panel display 9 enumeration data is exported; Described guide barrel lower end is corresponding with material-storing box 7; Described belt 10 passes the drum pulley 2 of each cylinder 3 successively, under the driving of power source, drives cylinder and rotates, and makes adjacent cylinder 3 direction of rotation; Described N is odd number, and N 〉=3.

Respectively be provided with two branch hoppers 4 that are close in described first spacing, second spacing, altogether 2N+2 branch hopper 4.

Described N=3.

Described power source is motor 11.

Described motor 11 is positioned at the bottom of described coin counter, and drives belt 10 by motor pulley 8, and the cylinder 3 that drives the top rotates.

Described cylinder 3 surfaces are provided with circular salient point 301.

The height of projection of described circular salient point 301 is 1.5mm.

Characteristics of the present invention are: set up a plurality of cylinders in body shell, be separated by in twos between cylinder and the cylinder and be slightly larger than coin diameter, two cylinders at two ends also are slightly larger than the diameter of coin apart from the spacing of body shell sidewall, making can be not stuck when coin drops from cylinder gap, utilize motor to drive belt, belt drives a plurality of cylinders and rotates together, wherein, referring to Fig. 3, belt is continuous V-arrangement between a plurality of cylinders arranges, thereby makes the direction of rotation of adjacent cylinder, thereby causes in same above-mentioned spacing, the direction that cylinder gives coin power is identical, like this can be so that coin better evenly falls.Referring to Fig. 4, the outside surface of cylinder is provided with a plurality of circular salient points, and its effect is to prevent that coin is stuck in roller pitch.After mass of coins is directly poured main hopper 1 into, the effect that cylinder rotates is that the coin in the main hopper 1 is shaken, thereby it is evenly fallen in described first spacing and second spacing, evenly fall in the branch hopper 4 again, fall in the material-storing box 7 by guide barrel 6 one by one again, when passing through guide barrel 6 one by one, utilize the light source sensor 5 that arranges on it to finish counting, and counted data is presented on the panel display 9 the most at last.

Beneficial effect of the present invention is:

1) easy and simple to handle, only unordered coin need be poured in the main hopper and can be finished counting work automatically.

2) need not to form single coin and transmit passage, special physical construction realizes coin is counted accurately and rapidly to utilize counter self, is skillfully constructed.

3) physical construction is simple, and automatically controlled form is simple, realizes easily.

4) with low cost, the prospect of extensive popularization is arranged.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 is that the master of coin counter of the present invention looks skeleton view.

Fig. 2 is that skeleton view is looked on the right side of coin counter of the present invention.

Fig. 3 is the synoptic diagram of belt and cylinder connected mode.

Fig. 4 is the structural representation of cylinder and outside surface thereof.

Fig. 5 is a plurality of minutes continuous vertical views of hopper.

Fig. 6 is that coin is through the synoptic diagram of light source sensor process, (a) before the coin process light source sensor; (b) in the coin process light source sensor; (c) coin is through after the light source sensor.

Wherein, 1, main hopper, 2, drum pulley, 3, cylinder, 4, divide hopper, 5, light source sensor, 6, guide barrel, 7, material-storing box, 8, motor pulley, 9, panel display, 10, belt, 11, motor, 12, body shell, 301, circular salient point.

Embodiment

The present invention is further described below in conjunction with specific embodiment.

Referring to Fig. 1, Fig. 2, Renminbi monobasic coin counter comprises three parallel cylinders 3, and cylinder 3 spacing in twos is 30mm, is slightly larger than the external diameter of one yuan of 25mm.Cylinder 3 is fixed on the top of body shell 12, and the cylinder 3 at two ends is 30mm with the spacing of body shell 12 sidewalls, also is slightly larger than the diameter of monobasic coin; Referring to Fig. 5, the corresponding above-mentioned 30mm spacing in cylinder 3 belows place respectively is provided with two branch hoppers 4, altogether, and eight branch hoppers 4; Referring to Fig. 1, divide hopper 4 belows to be provided with guide barrel 6, all guide barrel 6 are all aimed at the material-storing box 7 of below, the internal diameter of guide barrel 6 is 27mm, therefore can only pass through a coin, guide barrel 6 is provided with light source sensor 5 at every turn, and guide barrel 6 xsects are offered aperture along diametric(al), be connected with light source in the aperture, when coin falls, cut off light source, light source cuts off once, light source sensor 5 is just finished once counting, and by panel display 9 enumeration data is exported; Belt 10 passes the drum pulley 2 of each cylinder 3 successively, under the driving of motor 11, driving cylinder 3 rotates, referring to Fig. 3, make belt 10 be continuous V-arrangement and pass drum pulley 2, make adjacent cylinder 3 direction of rotation, but identical to coin thrust direction therebetween, thus make coin fall uniformly.

Referring to Fig. 4, cylinder 3 surfaces are provided with circular salient point 301, and the height of projection of circular salient point 301 is 1.5mm, can prevent that coin from blocking between cylinder.

Details are as follows at the structure of present embodiment coin counter and the course of work below:

Motor rotates, and drives cylinder 3 rotations by drum pulley 2 and enters duty.A large amount of monobasic coins are poured main hopper 1 into, monobasic coin normal diameter 25mm, there are three cylinders 3 the main hopper below, diameter of cylinder 30mm, gap 30mm between cylinder and cylinder, between two ends cylinder and sidewall apart from 30mm, as shown in Figure 1, because cylinder gap is slightly larger than coin diameter, so coin can stuck can not fall, the unsuitable rotating speed of motor 11 rotating speeds is slower, so coin can not occur falling down phenomenon in a large number and branch hopper 4 is blocked. arrange below the cylinder 2 that eight branch hoppers 4 can all connect down the coin that drops, and eight branch hoppers 4 are evenly shared the unlikely coin of the coin that drops and are blocked at minute hopper 4, light source sensor 5 is installed on the guide barrel 6 of branch hopper 4 bottoms, and the break-make number of times by light source reaches the counting purpose, and light source sensor is connected with display board 9, show number of coins with digital form, finish counting.

As shown in Figure 3, belt is V-shaped layout between three cylinders, and each cylinder turns to shown in the arrow among Fig. 3, and V-type arranges and to make adjacent two cylinder switched in opposite, but betwixt apart from interior the same or with down, and coin just can be uniform sequential falls like this.

As shown in Figure 4, cylindrical roller 3 outside surfaces are provided with circular projection, and it highly is 1.5mm, and it act as and prevents that coin is stuck between cylinder.

As shown in Figure 5, eight branch hoppers 4 are array closely to be arranged, and with the seamless layout of body shell, can admit fully and fall coin, and counting efficiency is higher simultaneously respectively for eight branch hoppers.

As shown in Figure 6, divide guide cylinder 6 first halves of hopper 4 belows to be vertical shape, its diameter is 27mm, its effect is only to allow a coin to pass through, coin just can fall one by one in order like this, its Lower Half is for being skewed, thereby aim at the material-storing box of below, guide cylinder 6 first halves are furnished with light source sensor 5, its principle of work is: vertically the cylinder xsect has aperture along diametric(al), be connected with light source at vertical cylinder xsect along diametric(al), coin falls and can cut off light source, and light source cuts off once to finish once and counts.When Fig. 6 a represented that coin cut-out light source is preceding, when Fig. 6 b represented that coin falls to cutting off light source, Fig. 6 c was after coin is represented to cut off light source, and this is a cyclic process.

Five jiaos or one jiao special-purpose coin counter of Renminbi can around this principle change portion size and get final product.

The present invention is based on mechanical hook-up, and electronic installation is auxilliary, allows coin evenly fall one by one by the ingenious layout of physical construction and the ingenious setting of size, finally reaches the counting purpose easily.

Claims

1. coin counter is characterized in that:

Comprise N parallel cylinder (3), described cylinder (3) spacing in twos is first spacing, and described first spacing is slightly larger than coin diameter;

Described cylinder is fixed on the top of body shell (12), and the cylinder at two ends (3) is second spacing with the spacing of body shell (12) sidewall, and described second spacing is slightly larger than the diameter of coin;

Corresponding described first spacing in described cylinder (3) below, each is provided with a branch hopper (4) at least the second spacing place, is total to N+1 branch hopper (4) at least;

Hopper (4) below was provided with guide barrel (6) in described minute, the internal diameter of described guide barrel (6) is less than described first spacing and second spacing and greater than coin diameter, described guide barrel (6) is provided with light source sensor (5), coin falls through guide barrel (6), through described light source sensor (5), count successively, and by panel display (9) enumeration data is exported;

Described guide barrel lower end is corresponding with material-storing box (7);

Described belt (10) passes the drum pulley (2) of each cylinder (3) successively, under the driving of power source, drives cylinder (3) and rotates, and makes adjacent cylinder (3) direction of rotation;

Described N is odd number, and N 〉=3.

2. coin counter as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that: respectively be provided with two the branch hoppers (4) that are close in described first spacing, second spacing, altogether 2N+2 branch hopper (4).

3. coin counter as claimed in claim 2 is characterized in that: described N=3.

4. coin counter as claimed in claim 1, it is characterized in that: described power source is motor (11).

5. coin counter as claimed in claim 3, it is characterized in that: described motor (11) is positioned at the bottom of described coin counter, and drives belt (10) by motor pulley (8), and the cylinder (3) that drives the top rotates.

6. coin counter as claimed in claim 1, it is characterized in that: described cylinder (3) surface is provided with circular salient point (301).

7. coin counter as claimed in claim 6, it is characterized in that: the height of projection of described circular salient point (301) is 1.5mm.