NL1036218C2 - Bill acceptor with license recognition and power-saving power control functions. - Google Patents
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Title: Bill acceptor with license recognition and power-saving power control functions
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the invention:
The present invention relates to a bill acceptor for use with an automatic vending machine and more particularly, to a 5 bill acceptor with license recognition and power-saving power control functions, which saves power consumption and prolongs the service life of the automatic vending machine.
2. Description of the related art:
Following fast development of technology, the 10 distance among people has been greatly shortened, our mode of living has been changed, and different automatic vending machines are used everywhere to sell different products without serviceman. These automatic vending machines are highly invited for the advantage of saving much labor and 15 bringing convenience to people. For example, a Q-shop has the advantages of scientific intelligence, quick service, and quick finish of payment. A Q-shop may provide automatic vending machines for vending drinks, cigarettes, tickets, ice creams, tickets, memorial coins, key rings, or even hamburgers 20 and noodles. Nowadays, many virtual shops are established to make online shopping, allowing shoppers to shop across millions of products.
Further, more and more numbers of shops utilize automatic vending machines to sell different items for the 25 advantages of saving labor and management cost and raising the profit. However, regular automatic vending machines do not limit sales to any person of any age. To prohibit young children unqualified people from buying controlled items, such as tobacco, wine, or other hazardous items, an automatic 30 vending machine must be equipped with a bill acceptor having license recognition means to recognize the age or identity of the consumer. When using an automatic vending machine that sells controlled items, a user must insert a license (such as 1036218 2 driver license, ID card, Health Insurance Card, etc.) into the machine so that the bill acceptor can check the real age and/or identity of the trader.
However, conventional automatic vending machines and 5 bill/license recognition means are constantly kept in the power-on status when started up, wasting power consumption and increasing company running cost. When an automatic vending machine or bill/license recognition means is constantly kept in the power-on status, the internal electronic component 10 parts of the automatic vending machine or bill/license recognition means may get damaged due to heat, shortening the service life or causing the automatic vending machine or bill/license recognition means unable to function normally.
Therefore, it is desirable to provide automatic 15 vending system that eliminates the aforesaid problem.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention has been accomplished under the circumstances in view. It is therefore one object of the 20 present invention to provide a bill acceptor for use with an automatic vending machine, which saves power consumption and prolongs the service life of the automatic vending machine.
To achieve this and other objects of the present invention, the bill acceptor comprises a body, and a circuit 25 assembly mounted inside the body. The body comprises a bill/license insertion slot for the insertion of a bill and a license, a passage backwardly extending from the insertion slot, a sensor switch for detection the insertion of a bill/license. The circuit assembly comprises a bill 30 recognition unit for checking the authenticity and par value of a bill, a license recognition unit for checking the authenticity obtaining a predetermined data of a license, a communication interface module for data communication between the bill recognition unit/license recognition unit and the 35 automatic vending machine, and a power-saving power supply module electrically connected with the communication interface module. The power-saving power supply module controls the automatic vending machine to enter the sleep mode when the automatic vending machine is not used within a predetermined 3 time period after startup, and provides power supply to wake up the automatic vending machine upon insertion of a bill/license and recognition of the authenticity of the inserted bill/license.
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BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
FIG. 1 is an elevational view of a bill acceptor in accordance with the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a sectional view of the bill acceptor in 10 accordance with the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a circuit block diagram of the circuit assembly of the bill acceptor in accordance with the present invention.
FIG. 4 is a circuit block diagram of the power-saving power supply module of the circuit assembly according to the 15 present invention.
FIG. 5 is a system start-up operation flow chart according to the present invention.
FIG. 6 is a license recognition operation flow chart according to the present invention.
20 FIG. 7 is a bill recognition operation flow chart according to the present invention.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT
Referring to FIGS. 1~4, a bill acceptor with license 25 recognition and power-saving power control functions in accordance with the present invention is shown comprising a body 1, and a circuit assembly 2 mounted in body 1.
The body 1 comprises an insertion slot 11 for the insertion of a license and a bill, a passage 12 extending 30 backwards from the insertion slot 11, at least one sensor switch 13 installed in the junction between the insertion slot 11 and the passage 12 and adapted to detect the insertion of a license or bill, a light-shielding gate 14 set adjacent to the sensor switch 13 and controllable by the sensor switch 13 to 35 close/open the passage 12, a bill box 16, which comprises a bill-bearing board 161 disposed at one side of the rear end of the passage 12 and a plurality of spring members 162 that support the bill-bearing board 161, and a transmission mechanism 15, which comprises a motor 151, bill transferring 4 means 152 rotatable by the motor 151 to transfer an inserted bill or license, and a bill holding-down device 153 disposed at the other side of the rear end of the passage 12 and adapted to force a bill away from the rear end of the passage 5 12 onto a bill-bearing board 161 of the bill box 16.
The circuit assembly 2 comprises a bill recognition unit 21 and a license recognition unit 22 respectively disposed around the passage 12 behind the light-shielding gate 14, a transmission control unit 23, a communication interface module 10 24 electrically connected with the bill recognition unit 21 and the license recognition unit 22 for communication with an automatic vending machine 3 in which the bill acceptor is installed, a power-saving power supply module 25 electrically connected with the communication interface module 24 and the 15 automatic vending machine 3, a software update module 26, and a user interface module 27. The bill recognition unit 21 comprises a first recognition module 211, a bill-checking optical transmitter 212 and a bill-checking optical receiver 213. The license recognition unit 22 comprises a second 20 recognition module 221, a photography light source 222, and an image sensor module 223. The transmission control unit 23 comprises a bill transferring means control module 231 adapted for controlling the movement of the bill transferring means 152, and a bill holding-down device control module 232 adapted 25 for controlling the movement of the bill holding-down device 153. The power-saving power supply module 25, as shown in FIG. 4, comprises a first voltage converter 251 and a second voltage converter 252 for receiving different voltage inputs, a control switch 253 electrically connected with the second 30 voltage converter 252, a voltage detection and protection unit 254 electrically connected with the control switch 253 and adapted to detect, open and close the output voltage of the first voltage converter 251, and high/low voltage converters 255 electrically connected with the first voltage converter 35 251 and adapted to convert input power into the different working voltages for the body 1 and the automatic vending machine 3. The software update module 26 is electrically connected with the first recognition module 211 of the bill recognition unit 21 for receiving data from the communication 5 interface module 24. The user interface unit 27 is electrically connected with the first recognition module 211 of the bill recognition unit 21, comprising an indication module 271 for transmitting work status data to the automatic 5 vending machine 3 for display, and a DIP switch module 272 for receiving push-button signals from the automatic vending machine 3.
Referring to FIGS. 5~7 and FIGS. 2~4 again, the operation of the present invention runs subject to the 10 following steps: (100) Start-up power supply.
(101) Run the system initialization.
(102) Automatically check the system, and then proceed to step (103) in case of an error, or step to (105) when normal.
15 (103) Display the massage "error", and then proceed to step (104) .
(104) The bill acceptor and the automatic vending machine 3 enter the sleep mode.
(105) Stand by, and then return to step (104) when no any bill 20 or license is inserted after a predetermined time period, or proceed to step (106) when receives a request from the automatic vending machine 3 for the insertion of a bill or license.
(106) Wake up the bill acceptor, and then proceed to step 25 (107) if a license is inserted, or step (112) if a bill is inserted.
(107) Recognize the inserted license and then proceed to step (108) if the inserted license is invalid, or step (109) if the inserted license passed the examination.
30 (108) Display the message of "invalid license" and then proceed to step (105).
(109) Inform the automatic vending machine 3 and reject the inserted license, and then proceed to step (111) .
(110) Send a cancellation notice when request or waiting of 35 the automatic vending machine 3 is overtime.
(111) Determine whether a bill is inserted or the transaction is to be cancelled, and then proceed to step (112) when a bill is inserted, or return to step (105) when the transaction is cancelled.
6 (112) Recognize the authenticity and value of the inserted bill and then proceed to step (113) if the inserted bill is a true bill, or return to step (105) if the inserted bill is a counterfeit.
5 (113) Recognition process is processing.
(114) Wake up the automatic vending machine 3.
(115) Inform a recognition result to the automatic vending machine 3.
(116) Display the message of end of operation, and then return 10 to step (105) .
If no any bill or license is inserted into the insertion slot 11 of the body 1 within a predetermined time period after the bill acceptor and the automatic vending machine 3 have been started up, the bill acceptor and the automatic vending 15 machine 3 immediately enter the sleep mode. When a bill or license is inserted through the insertion slot 11 of the body 1 into the passage 12, the sensor switch 13 is induced to lift the light-shielding gate 14 and to start the transmission mechanism 15, causing the transmission mechanism 15 to carry 20 the inserted bill or license forwards. At the same time, the bill recognition unit 21 or license recognition unit 22 is driven to recognize the authenticity, par value and/or birth data of the inserted bill or license. After recognition of the authenticity of the inserted bill or license, the bill 25 acceptor wakes up the automatic vending machine.
The bill recognition unit 21 and the license recognition unit 22 use the bill-checking optical transmitter 212 or photography light source 222 to radiate the inserted bill or license, and the bill-checking optical receiver 213 or image 30 sensor module 223 to receive reflective light from the bill or license and then to transmit the received light or image data back to the first recognition module 211 or second recognition module 221 for recognition. After recognition, the first recognition module 211 or second recognition module 221 sends 35 the recognition result to the power-saving power supply module 25 through the communication interface module 24, enabling the power-saving power supply module 25 to start up the power supply of the automatic vending machine 3 for running a transaction .
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After the bill acceptor and the automatic vending machine 3 entered the sleep mode, the power supply of the bill acceptor will be started up only when a bill or license is inserted into the insertion slot 11 of the body 1, and the 5 power supply of the automatic vending machine 3 will be started up only after recognition of the authenticity of a bill or license been inserted into the insertion slot 11 of the body 1 of the bill acceptor. Therefore, the invention saves the consumption of power supply when the bill acceptor 10 and the automatic vending machine 3 are not used. If a person inserted an ordinary sheet member or a counterfeit bill or license into the insertion slot 11 of the body 1, the automatic vending machine 3 will not be waked up. By means of this two-step power control design, the invention effectively 15 saves the consumption of power supply, avoiding mistaken start-up of the automatic vending machine 3 to waste power consumption and lowering the automatic vending machine running cost.
Further, the indication module 271 of the user interface 20 unit 27 transmits work status data to the automatic vending machine 3, enabling the automatic vending machine 3 to display the message through a display screen, and therefore a user can know the work status of the automatic vending machine 3 in time. Further, the automatic vending machines 3 provides an 25 input device for enabling a user to input signals to the DIP switch module 272 of the user interface unit 27, driving the DIP switch module 272 to operate subject to the input signal. The input device of the automatic vending machine can be a set of operation buttons, a touch screen or switch means.
30 Referring to FIGS. 3 and 4 again, the power-saving power supply module 25 is adapted to receive different input voltages. The relatively higher input voltage, for example, 24V is inputted into the first voltage converter 251 and the second voltage converter 252. The relatively lower input 35 voltage, for example, 12V is inputted into the second voltage converter 252 and the control switch 253. The second voltage converter 252 outputs the converted power supply to the control switch 253. The voltage detection and protection unit 254 is electrically connected with the control switch 253 and 8 electrically connected to the posterior circuit of the first voltage converter 251. The first voltage converter 251 outputs the converted power supply to the high/low voltage converters 255, which convert input power supply into different voltages 5 for the body 1, the motor 151, the bill-checking optical transmitter 212, the automatic vending machine 3 or other component parts for working, or directly transmit input power supply to the body 1, the motor 151, the bill-checking optical transmitter 212, the automatic vending machine 3 or other 10 component parts for working.
The voltage detection and protection unit 254 can detect the output voltage of the first voltage converter 251, and cuts off power supply when the output voltage of the first voltage converter 251 is higher than a predetermined upper 15 limit value or lower than a predetermined lower limit value, protecting the internal electronic devices against a surge and prolonging the service life of the automatic vending machine 3.
Further, the power-saving power supply module 25 can be 20 designed to receive 12V, 24V or other input voltage. The high/low voltage converters 255 can be designed to convert 12V into 3.3V, 5V and/or other voltages.
Referring to FIGS. 1~4 again, the image sensor module 223 of the license recognition unit 22 can be a charge coupled 25 device (CCD) , complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS), contact image sensor (CIS) or any other type of digital camera adapted to pick up the image and/or anti-counterfeit characteristics (watermark, steel stamp, hidden barcode, laser mark, etc.) of a license or bill.
30 Referring to FIG. 2 again, the bill transferring means 152 of the transmission mechanism 15 can be comprised of sheet-transfer rollers, transmission belt means, caterpillar chain means, rolling balls, etc. that can be rotated to transfer a license or bill. Further, the bill holding-down 35 device 153 of the transmission mechanism 15 can be a crossed linkage, electromagnetic valve, push board or any other means capable of pushing a bill away from the rear end of the passage 12 onto the bill-bearing board 161 of the bill box 16.
In conclusion, the bill acceptor with license 9 recognition and improved power control arrangement of the present invention has the following features and advantages: 1. If the automatic vending machine 3 is not used within a predetermined time period after start-up, the automatic 5 vending machine 3 immediately enters the sleep mode. When a bill or license is inserted through the insertion slot 11 of the body 1 into the passage 12, the bill recognition unit 21 or license recognition unit 22 is driven to recognize the authenticity, par value and/or birth data of the inserted bill 10 or license. After recognition of the authenticity of the inserted bill or license, the bill recognition unit 21 or license recognition unit 22 outputs a signal to the powersaving power supply module 25, enabling the power-saving power supply module 25 to wake up the automatic vending machine 3.
15 Therefore, the automatic vending machine 3 is kept in the sleep mode when a user inserts a counterfeit license or bill or any other object into the insertion slot 11 of the body 1, saving power consumption and avoiding waste of power supply.
2. If the bill acceptor is not used within a 20 predetermined time period after start-up, the bill acceptor immediately enters the sleep mode while keeping the sensor switch 13 in action. When a user inserts a license or bill into the insertion slot 11 of the body 1, the sensor switch 13 will be induced to wake up the bill acceptor, driving the bill 25 acceptor to work. By means of the two-step sleep/wakeup functioning of the bill acceptor and the automatic vending machine 3, the invention effectively saves the consumption of power supply, avoiding waste of power supply.
Although a particular embodiment of the invention has 30 been described in detail for purposes of illustration, various modifications and enhancements may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Accordingly, the invention is not to be limited except as by the appended claims .
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