COIN VALIDATION UNIT WITH CLIP FEATURE

• US 20090095593A1
• Filed: 03/31/2008
• Published: 04/16/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: IPS Group Incorporated
• Original Assignee: IPS Group Incorporated
• Inventors: Schwarz, Alexander, King, David William
• Granted Patent: US 8,479,909 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 194/302
• CPC Class Codes: G07D 5/00 Testing specially adapted to determine the identity or genuineness of coins, e.g. for segregating coins which are unacceptable or alien to a currency
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/24 for parking meters

Abstract

A separate removable and replaceable coin validation unit for use in a coin-operated device has a housing and clip formations by means of which the housing is releasably held in a cavity in the coin-operated device. The coin validation unit is electrically operable and has electrical connectors which connect with complementary connectors in the cavity. The coin operated device is particularly a single bay parking meter.

Claims

1. A coin validation unit that is suitable for use in a coin-operated device, the unit including

a housing;

and

clip formations for releasably clipping the housing in the coin-operated device.

2. A coin validation unit as claimed in claim 1, which is electrically operable and which has a connector that is electrically connectable to a complementary connector in the coin operated device.

3. A coin operated device which includes a coin validation unit as claimed in claim 1.

4. A coin operated device as claimed in claim 3, which has a body with a cavity in which the coin validation unit is received.

5. A coin operated device which includes a coin validation unit as claimed in claim 3, and which has a complementary connector to the connector of the coin validation unit.

6. A coin operated device as claimed in claim 5, which has a body with a cavity in which the coin validation unit is received.

9. A coin operated device as in one of claims 3-8, which is a parking meter.

10. A coin operated device as claimed in claim 9, which is a single bay parking meter.

7. A coin operated device which includes

a body having a cavity in which a removable coin validation unit is receivable;

a removable coin validation unit in the cavity; and

interoperable clip formations on the body and the coin validation unit.

8. A coin operated device as claimed in claim 7, in which the coin validation unit is electrically operable and the coin validation unit and the body have complementary connectable connectors.