EP0508560B1 - Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Prüfen von Münzen - Google Patents

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EP0508560B1
EP0508560B1 EP92250081A EP92250081A EP0508560B1 EP 0508560 B1 EP0508560 B1 EP 0508560B1 EP 92250081 A EP92250081 A EP 92250081A EP 92250081 A EP92250081 A EP 92250081A EP 0508560 B1 EP0508560 B1 EP 0508560B1
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Hartmut Dipl.-Ing. Thomas
Jens Dr.-Ing. Dipl.-Ing. Hertlein
Eckhardt Dipl.-Ing. Seher
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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
    • G07D5/005—Testing the surface pattern, e.g. relief
    • 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
    • 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
    • G07D5/10—Testing the rim, e.g. the milling of the rim

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  • the invention relates to a method and a device for checking coins by detecting and then calculating the coin diameter, the coinage and the material composition of the coin using inductive and optoelectronic means.
  • test systems and test devices are already known for checking the authenticity and value of coins, which record and evaluate the characteristic features of the coins, such as the geometric dimensions, the material, the weight or the knurling.
  • test methods can therefore be divided into mechanical, inductive and optical methods, whereby the mechanical structure of the coin validators is determined by the test method used.
  • a coin testing device for coins with a large, medium and small diameter which consists of a centering device and two electromechanical systems for scanning the coinage with subsequent circuitry evaluation of the measured values.
  • a coin fed via an inlet channel of the coin validator is centered and firmly clamped in a pre-centering position relative to the axes of rotation of the two scanning systems in order to then scan the coin profile of the coin surface within a circular path with the aid of axially movable sensors.
  • the fluctuating axial movements of the sensors are converted into electrical analog signals and sent for further processing or circuit evaluation.
  • the coin After being centered, the coin remains in a fixed position, while the scanning systems arranged on both sides of the embossing surface of the coin are rotated about a common axis of rotation.
  • the coin is centered by means of pivotably mounted centering elements equipped with toothed segments, which are brought from an initial position to the edge of the coin by means of an internally toothed adjusting ring driven by a lifting magnet and thereby center and clamp the coin.
  • the coin diameter which is also a test variable, is detected in the pre-centering position by sensors which are fixedly positioned in one of the coin channel conversions in accordance with the respective fixed coin diameter.
  • sensors which are fixedly positioned in one of the coin channel conversions in accordance with the respective fixed coin diameter.
  • the electro-mechanical scanning of the coinage ensures, on the one hand, a more exact coin check compared to the previously known solutions.
  • the coin testing device provides two diametrically opposed sensor elements which are applied to the edge of the coin by means of a pusher drive in order to detect the coin diameter and at the same time center the coin in relation to a test coil, with the aid of which the material composition is induced by induction the coin is determined as a further test variable.
  • the decision as to whether to accept or reject the coin is made only on the basis of the determined coin diameter and the material properties of the coin. This test facility therefore no longer meets the requirements placed on exact coin testing. Unfair coin manipulation can only be prevented to a limited extent with this test facility.
  • Optoelectronic coin checking devices and methods are also being used to an increasing extent, which enable an exact scanning of the coin minting or selected sections of the coin minting and / or the knurling of a coin.
  • a major disadvantage of known coin checking devices is, above all, that additional or separate checking sections must be provided in the device concerned in order to check further characteristic parameters, such as for checking the material of the coin. These additional test sections in turn require additional installation space, which is already very tight.
  • the invention is therefore based on the object of proposing a method and a device which has a space-saving construction in a very small space and is significantly improved, without restricting the test options for the relevant parameters of a coin Credit detection and counterfeit money rejection allows the simultaneous recording and evaluation of several test parameters.
  • the device proposed in claim 3 has a design oriented in the tightest of spaces and enables, in addition to the opto-electronic scanning of the coin minting, the diameter and the material properties of the coin to be recorded and simultaneously within a test cycle in which the coin is rotated through 360 ° to be evaluated or checked with the aid of computational means.
  • the respective diameter of the coin to be checked is advantageously determined in the centering phase of the supplied coin, in which the value of the rotation of two disks arranged rotatably against one another after completion of the centering process, i.e. after the driver pins have been brought together by the rotary movement of the disk serving as a receptacle to the center of this disk and they enclose the circumference of the coin evenly and thereby center the coin precisely and establish a rotational coupling to the second disk.
  • both disks are each provided with a marking which is detected by means of a sensor system.
  • the second disc which is on a common axis of rotation with the receiving disc is freely rotatable, can also be fixed by a limit force clamp with a precisely defined torque.
  • An advantageous solution for the generation of the necessary rotary movement of the receiving disc, against which the coin to be checked rests plane-parallel consists in the use of a stepping motor as the drive element.
  • analog motors with an incremental measuring system can also be used as the drive element.
  • the material composition is also checked in the centered clamping of the coin.
  • the material is tested in a known manner using inductive material detection.
  • test device While previously known electronic or electro-mechanical test devices provide a separate test sector for this within the test device, the test device according to a preferred one Embodiment of the invention, a hollow shaft in which a cylindrical fixed inductor is used for the material detection.
  • the run-up bevels provided according to the invention at the free ends of the driver pins have a particularly advantageous effect, as a result of which the coin lies flat against the receiving disc and completely covers the inductance.
  • the coin thus has a precisely defined position with a largely reduced dielectric within the inductive field, so that the tolerance range, which is relatively large in known test devices with a continuous coin, in which the coin has practically no defined system, can be very widely restricted .
  • the device for carrying out the method consists of two disks which are arranged so as to be rotatable independently of one another and which are mounted on a common axis of rotation, at least one disk being provided with circular-shaped elongated holes which, starting from a predetermined diameter, are directed in a radial direction toward the center of the disk.
  • Driver pins for receiving, centering and holding the coin during the test cycle, in which the coin is rotated through 360 °, are guided through the elongated holes of the disk, which serves as a receiving disk, and are fastened in pivotable levers which are articulated on the second disk.
  • elongated holes are also provided in the second disk in an analogous arrangement to the receiving disk, through which extensions of the driver pins are passed.
  • the driver pins are Springs articulated, which are arranged on the back of the second disc and which fix the driver pins in their starting position, which corresponds to the "open" position of the device.
  • the arcuate elongated holes starting from the smallest diameter near the center of the disks to a larger diameter in the area of the disk edge correspond indirectly to the respective diameter of the smallest and largest coin to be detected and tested.
  • the coupling or the rotary connection between the two disks takes place, as already explained, via the driver pins.
  • the driver pins move, guided in the arcuate oblong holes, as far as the center of the discs until they be blocked in their twisting movement by the end of the circular elongated holes or by the edge of a coin. Then both disks continue to rotate together in the specified direction of rotation.
  • the incoming coin is initially picked up by a few driver pins, then centered precisely by the rotary movement of the receiving disk and the driver pin pivoting towards the center of the disk and then rotated plane-parallel, so that desired parameters of the surface structure can be precisely scanned by means of opto-electronic means with a high level of representation.
  • the device or the driver pin is opened by changing the direction of rotation of the receiving disk.
  • the springs which hold the driver pins in their starting position, are mounted in a tilting arrangement and act as an additional holding force on the edge of the coin when the tipping point is exceeded.
  • the spring is arranged so that the driver pins act on the coins with an increased pressure force.
  • the receiving disc is attached directly to an axis of rotation which is driven by a motor via a gear and on which the second disc, on which the angle levers are rotatably articulated with the driving pins, is freely rotatably mounted.
  • the common axis of rotation is preferably designed as a hollow shaft, in which a fixed inductor for inductive material detection is used.
  • the free ends of the driver pins for receiving, centering and holding / clamping the coin to be tested are provided with a run-up slope directed towards the contact surface of the receiving disk.
  • the ramp are expediently arranged at an angle to the longitudinal axis of the angle lever, which corresponds to the tangent of the arc-shaped elongated holes in the receiving disc.
  • driver pin supports the safe detection of the coins to be checked and ensures that they are constantly pulled by these run-up bevels in a stable plane-parallel and centered position against the contact surface of the receiving disc, which for the vibration-proof clamping, especially for mobile coin validators, and for Inductive material detection is of particular importance with regard to the precisely determinable dielectric within the inductive field.
  • the invention guarantees a far more reliable detection of credit and rejection of counterfeit money.
  • the device shown in Fig. 1-7 is arranged for example in an opto-electronic coin checking device at an angle of ⁇ 20 ° to the vertical, so that the coins fed via a slope, as shown in Fig. 7, over the entire surface on the contact surface 13 of the Support the receiving disc 4 and a plane-parallel recording is guaranteed.
  • the driver pins 5, which are guided through the circular-arc-shaped elongated holes 9 in the receiving disc 4, are in the open position, ie, in their starting position, the one on the diameter corresponds to the largest coin-related free space. After the coin 6 has entered, it practically rests with its edge 17 on the driving pin 5 of the lower angle levers 10 and over the entire surface against the contact surface 13 of the disk 4.
  • a drive motor 1 preferably a stepper motor or an analog motor with an incremental measuring system, after receiving a coin 6 to be checked in a periodic, rotating rotary movement of 360 °, a receiving disc 4 is attached in a rotationally fixed manner.
  • the drive motor 1 is fastened to a mounting plate 20 which also serves as a bearing plate for the storage of the hollow shaft 8.
  • a second disc 3 which is axially secured by a locking ring 12 and is pivotally articulated on the angle lever 10 by means of pivot pins 15 which engage in corresponding bores 14 of the angle lever 10.
  • Both discs 3; 4 are equipped with sensors 19, the disk 3 being able to be additionally fixed in its starting position by a limit force clamp 21.
  • the receiving disc 4 is provided with circular arc-shaped elongated holes 9, which extend radially, starting from the center of the disc, to the periphery of the disc 4 - Fig. 4. Through these elongated holes 9, the driver pins 5 of the angle lever 10 are passed, which when opening and closing the device for the purpose of receiving or dispensing the coin 6 to be checked or checked through the elongated holes 9.
  • bevels 7 are provided which are directed towards the contact surface 13 of the receiving disc 4 and are arranged at an angle to the longitudinal axis 18 of the angle levers 10 - FIGS. 2 and 3.
  • the initial position of the disk 3 is advantageously fixed by the limit force inhibitor 21 with a defined friction or torque, while the driving pins 5 are in their "open" position in the outer periphery of the receiving disk 4 for receiving a coin 6.
  • the incoming coin 6 is initially grasped by the driver pins 5 lying in the direction of entry and lies loosely against the contact surface 13 of the receiving disc 4.
  • the test device is arranged obliquely in the overall device at an angle of ⁇ 20 °, which ensures that the coin 6 is placed loosely on the contact surface 13.
  • the driver pins 5, guided through the circular-shaped elongated holes 9 in the receiving disk 4, are guided in an aperture-like manner to the center of the disk 4 and the coin 6 is centered until all the drivers 5 rest evenly on the coin edge 17.
  • the coin 6 is pulled through the run-up slope 7, on which the coin rim 17 practically rests, to the contact surface 13 of the receiving disc, as a result of which a precisely defined and vibration-proof stable contact and clamping of the coin 6 for the subsequent opto-electronic scanning of the coinage and / or their knurling is guaranteed.
  • the centering process is practically completed when all of the driving pins 5 rest against the coin edge 17.
  • a kinematic rotary connection to the disk 3 is established via the coin 6, the driver pin 5 and the angle lever 10 and, after overcoming the defined friction / torque applied by the limit force clamp 21, the disk 3 is also set in a synchronous rotary movement with the receiving disk 4.
  • the higher torque that occurs at the same time supports a secure and stable clamping of the coin 6 with exact, plane-parallel contact with the contact surface 13 of the disk 4 for the subsequent optoelectronic scanning.
  • a cylindrical fixed inductor 16 for inductive material detection is arranged in the hollow shaft 8.
  • the material test of the coin 6 is expediently carried out after the centering process has been completed with the coin being completely in plane-parallel contact with the contact surface 13 and with a complete, stable covering of the fixed inductance 16.
  • the motor shaft 22 of the drive motor 1 is connected directly to the receiving disc 4.
  • the drive motor 1 is in turn attached to a mounting plate 13 which is equipped with a bearing pin 24.
  • the second disk 3, on which the angle levers 10 are rotatably articulated, is freely rotatably mounted on this journal 24.
  • the disk 3 is also provided with circular-arc-shaped elongated holes 9, directed towards the center of the disk 3, through which extensions 25 of the driving pins 5 are passed.
  • springs 27 are hinged to the extensions of the driver pin 5 in such a way that they act together with the angle levers as a toggle mechanism and when the device is closed, the center of the discs 3; Support 4 directional lever movement of the angle lever 10.
  • the disk 3 is held in place by an assigned pawl 26, which engages in a corresponding recess 28 in the jacket of the disk 3, until the spring 7 reaches the tipping point and thereby the entire tensioning and centering process supported coin 6 supported.
  • the driver pins 5 are returned to their starting positions by means of the circular-shaped elongated holes 9 and supported by the springs 27.
  • a controllable brake can also be provided, which interacts with the jacket of the disk 3.

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DE19914139503 DE4139503C2 (de) 1991-11-27 1991-11-27 Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Prüfen von Münzen

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