EP2040227B1 - Procédé de vérification de pièces de monnaie - Google Patents

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EP2040227B1
EP2040227B1 EP08014737.4A EP08014737A EP2040227B1 EP 2040227 B1 EP2040227 B1 EP 2040227B1 EP 08014737 A EP08014737 A EP 08014737A EP 2040227 B1 EP2040227 B1 EP 2040227B1
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Wilfried Meyer
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Claus Peter Heins
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    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07D—HANDLING OF COINS OR VALUABLE PAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING, DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING
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  • the invention relates to a method for checking coins according to claim 1.
  • the invention relates to a method of testing coins by the inductive measuring method.
  • this method relies on directing a magnetic signal from a transmitting coil onto a coin running along a track and receiving a receiving coil receiving the resulting signal.
  • a more or less pronounced attenuation of the transmission signal takes place.
  • the receiving coil both on the same side as the transmitting coil ( DE 10 2004 013 286 B4 ) as well as on the opposite side ( DE 689 21 608 T2 ).
  • Such a circuit arrangement is also suitable for an inductive measuring arrangement, are arranged in the transmitting and receiving coil on different sides of the coin path.
  • one speaks of a transmissive measurement while the measurement is referred to only on one side of the coin path as a reflective measurement.
  • a periodically recurring portion of the transmission signal in a Number of switching steps divided. From the values of the received signal of the receiving coil, envelopes are formed at the respective switching steps repeating the frequency of the transmission signal.
  • An evaluation device forms from the number of concurrently generated envelopes at least one criterion for generating the acceptance or return signal. In this measurement method, it is assumed that attenuation curves which generate a coin during the passage of the measuring device are significantly frequency-dependent. At low frequencies, the penetration depth is much greater than at high frequencies.
  • the penetration depth is close to zero.
  • the known measuring method one makes use of the property of, for example, a square wave signal consisting of a plurality of harmonics. In the section of the rectangular signal near its rising edge, the signal shape of the receiving coil is essentially determined by the high frequency components.
  • the invention has for its object to provide a method for checking coins, which allows a particularly good discrimination of different coin designs of counterfeit coins.
  • the inventive method is based on a specific Meßspulenan instruct.
  • a transmitting and a receiving coil is arranged on a ferrite core.
  • the diameter of the receiving coil which is closer to the track than the transmitting coil, is smaller than that of the transmitting coil, for example in the ratio of 1 to 2.
  • the diameter of the transmitting coil is smaller than the diameter of the smallest coin to be accepted.
  • a secondary coil is arranged, whose signal is fed back as a negative feedback signal to the transmitting coil. This is to ensure that a constant transmission signal can be given to the transmission coil.
  • This method is, as already explained above, from the DE 198 36 490 C2 known. This document is expressly incorporated by reference.
  • the arrangement of transmitting and receiving coil can be provided, for example, in the manner as in the already mentioned DE 10 2004 013 286 B4 is described.
  • a transmit signal containing harmonics is generated periodically. This is for example a rectangle or triangle signal.
  • the amplitudes of the damping function are determined from the input signals of the respective receiver coil at at least three chronologically different measuring times.
  • At least four measuring cycles are run through.
  • a reflection measurement is carried out in each case with the transmitting and receiving coil.
  • the transmission coils are controlled on each side, and the reception signals of the receiving coils are evaluated on each side.
  • two transmission measurements are carried out, wherein the transmitting coil of the respective opposite receiving coil is evaluated with their signals.
  • the peculiarity is that in one case the receiving coil is formed by a transmitting coil.
  • the order of the reflection and transmission measurements can be chosen arbitrarily.
  • the measured values from the four measuring cycles are related to each other and / or compared with predetermined reference values.
  • the receiving coils (with the exception of the case in which a transmitting coil is used as the receiving coil) have clearly different diameters compared to the transmitting coils, it is possible, for example.
  • the waveforms vary according to the differences in the electrical and magnetic properties of the ring and core materials.
  • the method according to the invention is not only suitable for distinguishing counterfeit coins from genuine ones, but also for classifying the inserted coin values.
  • the coins are moved into abutment against a wall of the track, and in the transmission measurement, the coil arrangement associated with the wall forms the receiving side.
  • a normalization of the measured values of the four cycles is carried out before the evaluation of the measurement results.
  • a normalization can take place, for example, by shifting a quiescent level of the received signals to a standard level (one-point standardization).
  • the quiescent level is known to be the state where no coin is in the measuring arrangement.
  • the standard level is an arbitrary level.
  • Another standardization can be carried out by shifting a first measured value of the respective cycle to a zero point. After determining the facing measured values or measured value curves, a better evaluation can take place in that the standardized measured values or measured value functions are spread.
  • a sensor arranged in front of the inductive measuring arrangement can initiate the starting signal for the inductive measurement.
  • this and / or another sensor is also possible to determine the relative position of a coin to the inductive measuring device, for example, to be able to better measure edge regions of a coin.
  • edge regions of a coin With pronounced extreme values of the damping curves, it can also be readily ascertained that when a coin is centered to the measuring device. This serves, for example, to test the core material of a bicoloured coin.
  • FIG. 1 a coin channel 10 is shown with a first wall 12 and a second wall 14. An inclined bottom 16 of the coin channel 10 ensures that a coin 18 is guided along the wall 12.
  • a first inductive measuring arrangement 20 and on the opposite side a second inductive measuring arrangement 22 is provided.
  • the measuring arrangement 20 consists of a receiving coil A, a transmitting coil C and a secondary coil E.
  • the measuring arrangement 22 has a receiving coil B, a transmitting coil D and a secondary coil F.
  • the construction of the coil arrangement or measuring arrangement 20, 22 results from FIG. 2 ,
  • the receiving coil A is seated with a significantly smaller diameter, for example half the diameter of the transmitting coil C, in a recess of the ferrite core 24.
  • the receiving coils A and B are located directly on the coin channel 10th
  • a square-wave signal 26 reaches an input of a differential amplifier 28, which feeds the transmitting coil C.
  • the transmitting coil C is inductively coupled to the secondary coil E and its output goes to a second input of the differential amplifier 28.
  • the signal of the secondary coil E is given as a negative feedback signal to the differential amplifier 28 such that the signal of the secondary coil E coincides with the transmission signal.
  • FIG. 5 is structurally the measuring arrangement according to FIG. 1 shown.
  • the coin 18 is a bi-color coin with a rim 18a and a core 18b. It moves along the wall 12 of the main plate, in which the first coil arrangement 20 is arranged, wherein the transmitting coil A is located very close to the wall 12.
  • the period of a measuring signal for example a square-wave signal, is for example 300 ⁇ s, where one pulse has a duration of 50 ⁇ s and the pause lasts 250 ⁇ s. Therefore, four cycles of 300 ⁇ s are required to complete four cycles.
  • the measuring points of the measurements of the four cycles therefore have a distance of 1.2 milliseconds.
  • a typical throughput time of a coin through the measuring arrangement of about 70 to 80 milliseconds, therefore, four measured values in the four cycles represent an immediate consequence and thus a measurement of material properties of the coin almost in the same place.
  • the transmitting coil C is activated in the first cycle while the transmitting coil D is activated in the other three cycles.
  • it is receiver coil A which generates the measurements
  • receiver coil B generates the measurement signal
  • in cycle 3 C is the receiver coil.
  • the respective transmitting coil is subjected to the multi-frequency principle with a square wave, as in connection with EP 0 886 247 B1 already described. This document is expressly incorporated by reference.
  • Each cycle can generate any number of measured values, for example 10, by means of a corresponding division of the transmitted pulse.
  • the sensors LS1 to LS3 are, for example, optical light barriers, transmitters and receivers being arranged on the same side as the main plate of the coin validator, while a reflection element is arranged on the carrier plate, which reflects the light of the light transmitter onto the receiver.
  • the light barrier or the sensor LS1 is the starting point for the measurement with the measuring device after the FIGS. 1 and 3 given. After starting the measurement, a quiescent level prevails until the damping starts.
  • the minima are cup-shaped and thus very much flattened, so that it is relatively difficult to determine the time at which the coin is located centrally in the measuring arrangement.
  • the minimum for the cycle TC is much more pronounced.
  • the reason for this is that in this case a transmitting coil is used as a receiving coil. As mentioned several times, the transmitting coil has a significantly larger diameter than the receiving coils of the measuring arrangement.
  • the distance of the sensor LS1 from the measuring arrangement is chosen so that the ring section of the 2 € Bicolor coin is positioned approximately centrally in front of the receiving coils.
  • the arrow LS1 downwards indicates leaving the coin in front of the sensor LS1.
  • the property of the edge can be measured at the time at which the coin edge substantially affects the measuring arrangement.
  • the edge of a bicolour coin has different material properties than the core.
  • the core of the coin can be effectively determined by taking a measurement of that Time takes place in which the damping curve has its minimum. The minimum can be determined, for example, in the cycle TA.
  • the sensor LS3 When leaving the coin of the sensor area, the sensor LS3 generates a signal which can end the measuring process.
  • the speed of the coin can also be measured, e.g. to determine a minimum.
  • a diameter measurement can take place, as it is known per se with the aid of such sensors.
  • FIG. 7 is an example of the evaluation of the measured values from the four cycles described reproduced.
  • five measured values for the different switching steps 1 to 5 for the cycle RA are plotted. These are eg the minima of the curves RA1 to RA5 (not all drawn in).
  • the course of such a curve corresponds to the deformation of a rectangular signal with which, for example, the transmitting coil C was fed.
  • the diagram also contains the quiescent level R and a standard level.
  • the quiescent level is shifted to the standard level, which leads to a raising of the curve (middle diagram).
  • the distance between measured value 1 and quiescent level is set to approximately 100. This results in a spread of the curve, as shown in the bottom diagram.
  • the influence of the air gap field is eliminated, which arises for example by the fact that the coin does not run smoothly along a track wall, but at a distance to this, the distance is also oscillating can change, depending on the movement of the coin on the track.
  • FIG. 8 is another example of a standardization of measured values shown, a so-called two-point normalization.
  • two-point normalization is meant that the distance of two specific measured values of the cycle RA is standardized, for example, from RA 1 to RA3.
  • the measured values are plotted in a diagram with resting and standard levels (see top diagram).
  • the first normalization step the measured value is pulled to the zero point.
  • the distance between measured value 1 and measured value 2 is set to 100. In this way, there is an elimination of the influence of the air gap field and thus a disturbance on the determination of measurement results.
  • the circuitry with which the individual cycles RA, RB, TC and TA are controlled is not shown. It is easily realizable.
  • the electronic circuit for generating the transmission and processing of the received signals is also not shown. It is also understood that in addition to the cycles described also other measuring cycles can be performed in which, for example, the transmitting coil D receiving coil, while the coil C is activated as a transmitting coil.

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  1. Procédé de contrôle de pièces de monnaie qui se déplacent le long d'une glissière en utilisant un arrangement de bobines qui possède, de chaque côté de la glissière, respectivement une bobine d'émission (C, D) qui peut être alimentée avec un signal d'émission et respectivement une bobine de réception (A, B) sur respectivement un noyau en ferrite commun (24), de sorte que la première bobine d'émission (C) et la première bobine de réception (A) se trouvent d'un côté et la deuxième bobine d'émission (D) et la deuxième bobine de réception (B) de l'autre côté de la glissière,
    la bobine de réception dont le diamètre est le plus petit se trouvant plus proche de la glissière que la bobine d'émission et le diamètre de la bobine d'émission étant inférieur au diamètre de la plus petite pièce de monnaie à accepter et une bobine secondaire (E, F) couplée avec la bobine d'émission étant disposée sur le noyau en ferrite, le signal de laquelle en tant que signal de contreréaction étant appliqué à l'entrée d'un amplificateur différentiel (28) de telle sorte que le signal de la bobine d'émission coïncide avec le signal d'émission appliqué à l'autre entrée de l'amplificateur différentiel, le procédé comprenant les étapes suivantes :
    - un signal d'émission qui contient des harmoniques est généré périodiquement,
    - pendant un intervalle de mesure prédéfini des portions se répétant périodiquement du signal d'émission, les amplitudes de la fonction d'atténuation sont déterminées à partir des signaux reçus d'une bobine de réception respective à au moins trois instants de mesure différents,
    - au moins quatre cycles de mesure sont accomplis chronologiquement les uns après les autres,
    - lors desquels une mesure par réflexion est respectivement effectuée et deux mesures par transmission sont effectuées de chaque côté de la glissière avec la bobine d'émission et de réception, la bobine d'émission qui est à l'opposé étant commutée en tant que bobine de réception lors de l'une des deux mesures par transmission,
    - les valeurs mesurées ou les fonctions d'atténuation issues d'au moins l'un des cycles de mesure étant mises en relation les unes avec les autres et/ou comparées avec des valeurs de référence prédéfinies.
  2. Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que les pièces de monnaie sont déplacées dans l'équipement contre une paroi de la glissière et, lors de la mesure par transmission, les bobines d'émission et de réception tournées vers la paroi forment le côté récepteur.
  3. Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que les pièces de monnaie sont déplacées dans l'équipement contre une paroi de la glissière et, lors de la mesure par transmission, les bobines d'émission et de réception tournées à l'opposé de la paroi forment le côté récepteur.
  4. Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que les valeurs mesurées des cycles de mesure sont normalisées avant une comparaison avec des valeurs de référence.
  5. Procédé selon la revendication 4, caractérisé en ce que la normalisation est effectuée en ce qu'un niveau de repos des signaux reçus est décalé à un niveau normalisé.
  6. Procédé selon la revendication 4, caractérisé en ce que la normalisation est effectuée en ce qu'une première valeur mesurée est décalée à un point zéro.
  7. Procédé selon la revendication 5 ou 6, caractérisé en ce que les valeurs mesurées normalisées ou les fonctions de valeur mesurée sont étalées.
  8. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 à 7, caractérisé en ce qu'un signal de présence est généré par au moins une sonde de mesure devant l'arrangement de bobines dans le sens du déplacement, avec lequel une relation est établie entre les valeurs mesurées et la position réelle de la pièce de monnaie par rapport à l'arrangement de bobines.
  9. Procédé selon la revendication 8, caractérisé en ce que le premier cycle de mesure est démarré avec le signal d'une sonde de mesure.
  10. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 à 9, caractérisé par l'application sur une bobine secondaire qui est enroulée sur le noyau en ferrite de manière bifilaire avec la bobine d'émission (C ou D).
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