COIN PROCESSING APPARATUS

• US 20170221294A1
• Filed: 01/25/2017
• Published: 08/03/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 01/29/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fuji Electric Company Limited (Fuji Electric Systems Company Limited)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Electric Company Limited (Fuji Electric Systems Company Limited)
• Inventors: NIIZUMA, Nobuyuki, KIMURA, Tomohiko, INOUE, Yoshimasa
• Granted Patent: US 10,643,419 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G07D 1/00 Coin dispensers devices delivering paper currency G07D11/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07D 1/06 dispensing the difference between a sum paid and a sum charged
• CPC Class Codes: G07D 11/20 Controlling or monitoring the operation of devices; Data handling
• CPC Class Codes: G07D 11/22 Means for sensing or detection
• CPC Class Codes: G07D 11/237 for detecting transport malfunctions, e.g. jams or misfeeds
• 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: G07D 5/08 Testing the magnetic or electric properties

Abstract

A coin processing apparatus configured to: cause a coin output conveying unit to collectively convey coins taken out for each denomination from a plurality of coin containers where the coins are housed in the respective coin containers for each denomination; and dispense the conveyed coins from a coin output port through a coin output shoot unit, the coin processing apparatus includes: a coin stay detecting sensor configured to detect a coin stay on a shoot face of the coin output shoot unit; a reporting unit configured to perform report output for abnormality; and a controller configured to cause the reporting unit to perform report output for coin stay abnormality in the coin output shoot unit when the coin stay detecting sensor detects the coin stay.

Claims

1. A coin processing apparatus configured to:

cause a coin output conveying unit to collectively convey coins taken out for each denomination from a plurality of coin containers where the coins are housed in the respective coin containers for each denomination; and

dispense the conveyed coins from a coin output port through a coin output shoot unit, the coin processing apparatus comprising;

a coin stay detecting sensor configured to detect a coin stay on a shoot face of the coin output shoot unit;

a reporting unit configured to perform report output for abnormality; and

a controller configured to cause the reporting unit to perform report output for coin stay abnormality in the coin output shoot unit when the coin stay detecting sensor detects the coin stay.

2. The coin processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, when the coin stay detecting sensor detects the coin stay during dispensing operation, the controller causes the coin output conveying unit to perform retry operation by forward conveyance and backward conveyance, and when a state of the coin stay continues after the retry operation ends, the controller causes the reporting unit to perform report output for the coin stay abnormality in the coin output shoot unit.

3. The coin processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, when the coin stay detecting sensor detects the coin stay during standby, the controller causes the reporting unit to perform report output for first coin stay abnormality in the coin output shoot unit, and when a state of the coin stay continues from the report output for the first coin stay abnormality until a predetermined time is elapsed, the controller causes the reporting unit to perform report output for second coin stay abnormality in the coin output shoot unit.

4. The coin processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the report output is at least one of voice output and display output.

5. The coin processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the reporting unit is provided on a host device that is connected to the coin processing apparatus through the controller.