EP2146330A2 - Dispositif de distribution ou de mesure de pièces - Google Patents

Dispositif de distribution ou de mesure de pièces Download PDF

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EP2146330A2
EP2146330A2 EP09490001A EP09490001A EP2146330A2 EP 2146330 A2 EP2146330 A2 EP 2146330A2 EP 09490001 A EP09490001 A EP 09490001A EP 09490001 A EP09490001 A EP 09490001A EP 2146330 A2 EP2146330 A2 EP 2146330A2
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Fabrizio Alberici
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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
    • G07D9/00—Counting coins; Handling of coins not provided for in the other groups of this subclass
    • G07D9/008—Feeding coins from bulk
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07D—HANDLING OF COINS OR VALUABLE PAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING, DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING
    • G07D3/00—Sorting a mixed bulk of coins into denominations
    • G07D3/12—Sorting coins by means of stepped deflectors
    • G07D3/128—Rotary devices
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07D—HANDLING OF COINS OR VALUABLE PAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING, DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING
    • G07D3/00—Sorting a mixed bulk of coins into denominations
    • G07D3/14—Apparatus driven under control of coin-sensing elements

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  • the present invention relates to coin and token machine and refers to a coin dispenser measurer at the exit of coins, tokens or the alike, from a container.
  • coin dispensers known as hoppers, having a coin container and a disc element for withdrawing single coins from such container and for delivering such coins.
  • Some of these devices include also measuring means, of the diameter of the outgoing coins, including a motor for rotating the disc provided with encoder and a sector or windows disc associated to the disc rotational shaft for measuring the respectively speed and the angular position of the disc.
  • Another disadvantage of the known devices consists in the fact that they have casual and periodic errors of the speed evaluation and have uncertainty and errors in establishing the disc position with consequent excessive uncertainties in evaluating the coin diameter.
  • An object of the present invention is to propose a coin dispenser and a coin meter that is simple and inexpensive.
  • Another object is to propose a precise device and without excessive measuring uncertainties.
  • a further object is to propose a device with reliable function and easy and fast maintenance.
  • numeral 1 indicates the coin dispenser and coin meter object of the present invention.
  • the device 1 first includes a rotating disc 2 associated and coaxial to a second rotating disc 26 and cooperating with this latter to transport the coins from a container 7 to an outlet 8.
  • the first rotating disc 2 has a parametric toothed wheel 28 engaged by a motorized pinion for rotating axially said first rotating disc 2 jointly to the second rotating disc 26.
  • the two rotating discs are rotated around their sloping main axis and their lower portions are inside the coin container 7 and the outlet 8 is placed closed to their tops.
  • the discs rotate axially in a respective flat and circular seat 3 carried out in a device body 4 with the first rotating disc in contact, or almost, with the flat surface of the seat 3.
  • the first star-shaped rotating disc 2 with curved arms and inscribed in a perimetrical circle, is equipped with a plurality of coin housings 5 separated by shaped arms 6 each arranged to carry a coin from the container 7 to the outlet 8 and, in cooperation with teeth means 12, for expelling the coin through the outlet 8.
  • the second disc 26 has holes with shaped edges in order to favour the entry of the coins into the same holes. Every hole is opposed to a respective housing 5 of the first rotating disc so that each coin fall from the hole into the corresponding seat.
  • the device includes two sensor means 9 placed in the seat 3 at a mutual predetermined distance and in data connection with a processor means of the device.
  • the device 1 is also equipped with a plurality of activation means 10 each fixed to a respective shaped arm 6 and arranged to transit over both sensor means 9, due to rotation of the discs, and to activate each sensors passing thereon.
  • the device 1 includes a coin detecting means 11, placed at the outlet 8.
  • the detecting means 11 is in data connection with the processor means and is activated by the coin exiting from the disc.
  • the two sensor means 9 and the detector means 11 are optical and their activation occurs when their optical circuit is closed or open.
  • Each sensor means 9 includes a respective light emitter means 20, for example a LED (Light Emitter Diode), and a respective and spaced light sensitive means 21, for example a photoresistor or a phototransistor with control circuit.
  • a respective light emitter means 20 for example a LED (Light Emitter Diode)
  • a respective and spaced light sensitive means 21 for example a photoresistor or a phototransistor with control circuit.
  • the light emitter means 20 and the light sensitive means 21 emit and receive the light in respective operative directions and such means 20, 21 are fixed with respect to the plane of the seat 3 so that each operative direction are almost perpendicular to the said plane.
  • the light emitter means 20 and the light detector means 21 are placed under the active end of the activation means 10 when it transits on the sensor means 9 having each light emitter means 20 and light sensitive means 21.
  • the activation means 10 is made of transparent material for the light emitted by the light emitter means 20 and is shaped elongated with prisms at its active ends for refracting the light of the emitter means 20 towards the light sensitive means 21 when this activation means 10 pass on the sensor means 9.
  • the light sensitive means 21 sends a signal to the processor means when it receives the light of the respective light emitter means 20 due to the transit of one of the activation means 10 or when the respective shaped arm 6 passes on such sensor means 9. In this way the two sensor means 9 send the respective signals at the transit instants of each shaped arm.
  • the detector means 11 includes a respective light source 22 and respective and spaced light receiver means 23 having the respective almost parallel operative directions and orthogonal to the outlet 8.
  • the light source means 22 and light receiver 23 are placed under, and spaced by, prismatic respective ends of a light transmitting means made of a material that is transparent to the light made by the light source means 22 to refract the light towards the known light receiver means 23 when none coin engages the outlet 8 and therefore when there is no obstructions to the light flow between one of the light source means 22 and light receiver 23 and the light transmitting means.
  • the device 1 includes a connecting means 24 reproducing the star shape of the first rotating disc 2.
  • the end of each arm of the connecting means 24 has a respective activation means 10.
  • the connecting means 24 is fixed and interposed between the rotating discs, first 2 and second 26, with each of the activation means 10 faced to a respective shaped arm 6.
  • connection means 24 is fixed to the face of the first rotating disc 2 opposite to the seat 3 and each shaped arm 6 has two holes 25 for the passage of the light to the ends of the corresponding activation means 10.
  • the device includes an optical coin detector 27 placed at the external end of the outlet 8 and fit to supply a reliable counting of the coins delivered by the device.
  • the coin detecting means 11 sends a signal to the process means when it detects a coin
  • each sensor means 9 sends a respective signal to the elaboration means when it detects an activation means 10 of the shaped arm 6 of this coin or an adjacent predetermined shaped arm 6,
  • the process means counts the time elapsed between the signals supplied by the coin detecting means 11 and one of the sensor means 9 and the time elapsed between the signals supplied by the two sensor means 9 to calculate the diameter of the respective coin on the base of a special algorithm memorised in the same process means.
  • An advantage of the present invention is to supply a coin dispenser and coin meter that is either simple and cheap.
  • a further advantage is to supply a device of reliable operation and of easy and fast maintenance.

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EP09490001A 2008-07-14 2009-07-13 Dispositif de distribution et de mesure de pièces Withdrawn EP2146330A3 (fr)

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IT000448A ITBO20080448A1 (it) 2008-07-14 2008-07-14 Dispositivo erogatore e misuratore di monete

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ITBO20100729A1 (it) * 2010-12-10 2012-06-11 Alberici S P A Dispositivo per discriminare ed erogare monete
EP2733682A1 (fr) * 2012-08-21 2014-05-21 Asahi Seiko Co. Ltd. Dispositif d'alimentation et de séparation de pièces
EP2966626A1 (fr) * 2014-07-08 2016-01-13 Walter Hanke Mechanische Werkstätten GmbH & Co. KG Dispositif de separation et de distribution de pieces de monnaie
WO2016018011A1 (fr) * 2014-07-28 2016-02-04 은남표 Appareil de comptage de pièces de monnaie
CN106056748A (zh) * 2016-08-01 2016-10-26 合肥学院 可折叠式便利硬币清分机
EP3104344A1 (fr) * 2015-06-10 2016-12-14 International Currency Technologies Corporation Distributeur automatique de monnaie présentant une meilleure poussée des pièces
CN104299309B (zh) * 2013-07-21 2017-01-18 旭精工株式会社 硬币排出装置
CN106537467A (zh) * 2014-07-16 2017-03-22 克雷恩支付解决方案有限公司 分离和验证货币项目

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GB2128795A (en) * 1982-10-15 1984-05-02 Mach & Systems Limited Coin sorting apparatus
GB2185341A (en) * 1986-01-25 1987-07-15 Hayao Uzihara Hopper type coin delivery apparatus
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GB2309811A (en) * 1996-01-30 1997-08-06 Universal Sales Co Ltd Coin dispenser
US6609604B1 (en) * 1998-03-18 2003-08-26 Cummins-Allison Corp. Coin processing system for discriminating and counting coins from multiple countries
DE102005056191A1 (de) * 2005-11-21 2007-05-24 Walter Hanke Mechanische Werkstätten GmbH & Co. KG Vorrichtung zum Vereinzeln von Münzen

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US4407312A (en) * 1980-05-28 1983-10-04 General Railway Signal Company Fare collection system and components thereof
GB2128795A (en) * 1982-10-15 1984-05-02 Mach & Systems Limited Coin sorting apparatus
GB2185341A (en) * 1986-01-25 1987-07-15 Hayao Uzihara Hopper type coin delivery apparatus
WO1993018488A1 (fr) * 1992-03-03 1993-09-16 Brandt, Inc. Appareil de triage de pieces de monnaie a deux disques
GB2309811A (en) * 1996-01-30 1997-08-06 Universal Sales Co Ltd Coin dispenser
US6609604B1 (en) * 1998-03-18 2003-08-26 Cummins-Allison Corp. Coin processing system for discriminating and counting coins from multiple countries
DE102005056191A1 (de) * 2005-11-21 2007-05-24 Walter Hanke Mechanische Werkstätten GmbH & Co. KG Vorrichtung zum Vereinzeln von Münzen

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ITBO20100729A1 (it) * 2010-12-10 2012-06-11 Alberici S P A Dispositivo per discriminare ed erogare monete
EP2463829A1 (fr) * 2010-12-10 2012-06-13 Alberici S.p.A. Dispositif pour séparer et fournir des pièces de monnaie
EP2733682A1 (fr) * 2012-08-21 2014-05-21 Asahi Seiko Co. Ltd. Dispositif d'alimentation et de séparation de pièces
CN104299309B (zh) * 2013-07-21 2017-01-18 旭精工株式会社 硬币排出装置
EP2966626A1 (fr) * 2014-07-08 2016-01-13 Walter Hanke Mechanische Werkstätten GmbH & Co. KG Dispositif de separation et de distribution de pieces de monnaie
CN106537467A (zh) * 2014-07-16 2017-03-22 克雷恩支付解决方案有限公司 分离和验证货币项目
CN106537467B (zh) * 2014-07-16 2019-09-10 克雷恩支付创新有限公司 分离和验证货币项目
WO2016018011A1 (fr) * 2014-07-28 2016-02-04 은남표 Appareil de comptage de pièces de monnaie
US9911264B2 (en) 2014-07-28 2018-03-06 Nam Pyo Eun Coin counting apparatus
EP3104344A1 (fr) * 2015-06-10 2016-12-14 International Currency Technologies Corporation Distributeur automatique de monnaie présentant une meilleure poussée des pièces
CN106056748A (zh) * 2016-08-01 2016-10-26 合肥学院 可折叠式便利硬币清分机

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