EP0023965B2 - Münzprüfer für Münzen verschiedenen Durchmessers - Google Patents

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EP0023965B2
EP0023965B2 EP80103695A EP80103695A EP0023965B2 EP 0023965 B2 EP0023965 B2 EP 0023965B2 EP 80103695 A EP80103695 A EP 80103695A EP 80103695 A EP80103695 A EP 80103695A EP 0023965 B2 EP0023965 B2 EP 0023965B2
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07D—HANDLING OF COINS OR VALUABLE PAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING, DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING
    • G07D5/00—Testing specially adapted to determine the identity or genuineness of coins, e.g. for segregating coins which are unacceptable or alien to a currency
    • G07D5/08—Testing the magnetic or electric properties
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07D—HANDLING OF COINS OR VALUABLE PAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING, DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING
    • G07D5/00—Testing specially adapted to determine the identity or genuineness of coins, e.g. for segregating coins which are unacceptable or alien to a currency
    • G07D5/02—Testing the dimensions, e.g. thickness, diameter; Testing the deformation

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  • the invention relates to coin validators for coins of different diameters according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • a coin validator of this type is known from FR-A 2212589. It has two elongated coils that run transversely to the direction of the coin, each with a core arrangement consisting of a series of E cores glued together on the side. The E-core rows are arranged in a holder transverse to the direction of the coin and the core legs are perpendicular to the direction of the coin. A second coil is arranged after the first coils in the direction of coin movement. It is an air coil with a winding around the coin channel. A circuit evaluates the influencing of the coil field to determine the coin diameter caused by the coins passing through the first coils, which is approximately proportional to the coin diameter, and the influencing of the field of the second coil to determine the coin alloy.
  • the coil of the known coin validator intended for the determination of the coin diameter has a homogeneous coil field which is influenced by all acceptable coin sizes and all unacceptable coin-shaped bodies, the diameter of which lies between those of the smallest and largest acceptable coin sizes, depending on the diameter.
  • the measuring range which must be recorded when evaluating the influence on the coil field, includes sub-areas that are insignificant for coin testing, namely the sub-areas in which coin-shaped bodies whose diameters lie between widely differing diameters of acceptable coin sizes influence the field to different extents.
  • the extent to which the coil field is influenced differently by an acceptable coin with a certain diameter and a coin-shaped body with a slightly different diameter is therefore relatively small in relation to the entire measuring range. Coin-shaped bodies whose diameters differ only slightly from the diameters of acceptable coins are therefore difficult to distinguish from the latter.
  • the invention specified in claim 1 solves the problem of developing the coin validator according to the preamble of this claim in such a way that the acceptable coins with different diameters are detected very reliably and just as reliably from one another and from unacceptable coins, especially those with acceptable ones only slightly different diameters can be distinguished.
  • the coins to be checked of different diameters are thrown into a common coin insertion channel (not shown) which leads through the field of a coil 2 arranged on one broad side thereof and connected to the output of an alternator 1.
  • the alternating current frequency of generator 1 is 100 kHz.
  • the coil 2 has a core arrangement consisting of juxtaposed E-cores 3, its winding is wound on the middle leg 4 of the E-cores 3.
  • the length of the core arrangement is approximately equal to the diameter of the largest acceptable coin type and is a multiple of the dimension of the core arrangement in the coin running direction indicated by an arrow 5 in FIG. 2.
  • a coil 7 of exactly the same structure that is to say also provided with a core arrangement comprising a plurality of E-cores 6 arranged next to one another.
  • the legs of this core arrangement lie with the legs of the first core arrangement in three identical planes running perpendicular to the coin running direction 5, so that the best possible inductive coupling of the coils is achieved.
  • the coupling is influenced by the coins that fall through the coin channel running between the coils 2, 7.
  • a medium-sized coin 8 is shown as it passes through the coils 2.
  • the coil 7 is connected to the input of a rectifier 9, the output of which is connected to a smoothing element 10.
  • the smoothing element output is connected to the one inputs of six comparators 11 to 16, the other inputs of which are each connected to a voltage source via a potentiometer 21 to 26.
  • the outputs of the comparators 11 to 16 are connected in pairs to bistable flip-flops 27 to 29, namely the comparators 11, 13 and 15 to the C inputs and the comparators 12, 14 and 16 to the R inputs of the flip-flops.
  • a control part (not shown) which controls the coin collecting device is with the Q outputs of the tilting members 27 to 29 and one (not shown) in the coin running direction 5 connected to the coils 2, 7 arranged continuous signal transmitter.
  • the coin validator circuit part shown in FIG. 1 is designed for checking and determining coins with three different diameters.
  • a coin 8 to be checked arrives in the field of coil 2, the inductive coupling between coils 2 and 7 and thus the generator signal supplied to rectifier 9 are reduced.
  • the smoothed DC voltage signal at the output of the smoothing element 10 thus becomes smaller when a coin is passed. It reaches a minimum if the coin 8 has a maximum influence on the coil field - as shown in FIG. 2 - that is, if the center of the coin lies between the middle legs of the cores 3, 6 and the coin with its entire diameter the field between the middle Thighs affected.
  • the signal then rises again and returns to its original value after passing through the coin.
  • the comparators 11 to 16 compare the output signal of the smoothing element 10 with the voltage supplied by the respective potentiometer 21 and 26.
  • the potentiometers 21 to 26 define an allowable voltage range for the minimum output signal of the smoothing element 10 for each of the three acceptable coin types.
  • the potentiometer 21 provides e.g. a voltage which is greater by a tolerance than the minimum output voltage of the smoothing member 10 when passing through the smallest acceptable coin type, the potentiometer 22 supplies a voltage which is less by a tolerance.
  • the potentiometers 23, 24 and 25, 26 deliver voltages which are larger or smaller by a tolerance than the output voltage of the smoothing element 10 in the middle and the largest coin type.
  • the comparators 11 to 16 then supply a signal (value 1) when the output voltage of the smoothing element 10 is less than the output voltage of the respective potentiometer 21 to 26.
  • the output voltage of the smoothing element 10 drops below the voltage value supplied by the potentiometer 21 and the comparator 11 sets the flip-flop 27, i. H. it forces the value 1 at the associated Q output.
  • the (not shown) continuous signal generator switches on the (not shown) control part when the coin passes through, which triggers the acceptance of the coin due to the value 1 at the Q output of the link 27 and transmits the associated smallest coin value to the arithmetic unit of the coin collecting device.
  • the control part then actuates a (not shown) resetting device which resets all the tilting members 27 to 29 to the 0 state.
  • the output voltage of the smoothing member 10 drops to a value between the voltage values of the potentiometers 23 and 24.
  • the comparators 11, 12 and 13 deliver signals to the flip-flops 27 and 28 one after the other.
  • the flip-flop 27 is set to state 1 by the comparator 11 and reset to state 0 by the comparator 12, whereupon the comparator 13 switches the flip-flop 28 to State 1 sets.
  • the element 28 remains in this state, because the minimum of the output voltage supplied by the smoothing element 10 lies above the voltage value supplied by the potentiometer 24, that is to say the comparator 14 does not reset the flip-flop 28.
  • the control part determines the state 1 of the link 28 and the reset device restores the reset state on the link 28.
  • the flip-flops 27 and 28 are first set to state 1 in succession and then reset to state 0.
  • the flip-flop 29 is then set to state 1, queried by the control part and reset again.
  • the output voltage of the smoothing member 10 drops to a range that is not within the permissible range, that is to say, for example, between the values supplied by the potentiometers 22 and 23.
  • the initially set rocker member 27 is reset, while the rocker member 28 is not set. None of the flip-flops is therefore in state 1 when the control part is queried, which indicates the unacceptability of the coin.
  • the coins consist of non-magnetic material. With coins made of magnetic material, the coupling of the coils 2 and 7 would increase with the diameter of the coins.
  • the circuitry for testing magnetic coins could basically be the same as described above.
  • a test of the coin diameter that is completely independent of the alloy properties is particularly expedient if an alloy test is also carried out using a separate test coil (see the coils 48, 50 described below in FIGS. 3 and 4). Otherwise, of course, a lower AC frequency can also be selected, in which the diameter and alloy influence the coupling. (It is a prerequisite, of course, that the alloy differences are not exactly due to the difference in the coin Compensate the knife-related change in the coupling.) For the sake of completeness, it should also be mentioned that the coupling naturally also depends on the thickness of the coins, so that coins of larger diameter, because of their generally larger thickness, influence the coil field somewhat more than solely because of their Diameter would be expected.
  • the core of the coil 31 consists of eight E-cores 34 to 41, which are arranged at different distances next to one another in a cross-sectionally U-shaped holder 42 which is transverse to the direction of coin 33, so that their legs are perpendicular to the direction of coin 33.
  • the dimension of the e-cores 34 to 41 in the direction of the coin 33 is a quarter of the distance between the surfaces of the two outermost cores 34 and 41 facing away from one another.
  • the coil winding 43 encloses the middle legs of the e-cores 34 to 41.
  • the coil 32 also has accordingly eight E-cores 44, which lie exactly symmetrically opposite the cores 34 to 41 on the coin channel 30.
  • One coin 45, 46, 47 of the three different sized coin types to be checked is shown in the coin channel 30.
  • the arrangement of the cores 34 to 41 and the holder 42 is selected such that, on the one hand, unacceptable coins, the diameter of which differ only slightly from those of the acceptable coin types, influence the coil field as differently as possible from the acceptable coins, and on the other hand the influence on the coil field is approximately proportional to the diameter of the acceptable coins.
  • the first condition is met in that the three coins 45, 46, 47 rolling on the narrow wall of the coin channel 30 on the left in FIG. 4 each cover one core on the right-hand side when passing through the coil 31, namely the core 36, 38 or 40, but do not influence the field of the core 37, 39 or 41 immediately adjacent to it.
  • the coin validator also has an alloy test circuit (not shown in detail) with two coupling coils 48, 50 arranged at a distance from the coils 31, 32 and having the same pot cores 49, 51.
  • the outer diameter of the pot core 49 and 51 is smaller than the diameter of the smallest acceptable one Coin, which enables an alloy test independent of the coin diameter.
  • the circuit can be constructed similarly to that in FIG. 1, with the alternating current frequency of the generator 1 being chosen to be such that the influence of the alloy on the coil field is maximized.
  • each of the two winding core arrangements consists of seven U-cores arranged in a holder (not shown), of which the outermost ones with 54, 55 and 56 in the drawing , 57 are designated.
  • the distances according to the invention are not apparent from this illustration.
  • the coil windings enclose the webs of the U-cores arranged side by side.
  • the two coils 52, 53 are arranged opposite one another on the coin channel, the legs of the U-cores 54 to 57 lying in two planes running perpendicular to the direction of coin movement.
  • two coupled coils are always provided in accordance with the circuit principle chosen for FIG. 1, which are opposite one another on the coin channel.
  • only one coil could also be provided, which, as a self-induction coil, belongs, for example, to an oscillating circuit fed by an AC power source.
  • the damping (or, in the case of magnetic coins, the amplification) of the vibrations which occurs when a coin passes the field of the self-induction coil would then be a measure of the coin diameter (or of the alloy in the case of the coil 48).

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