GLORY LTD. Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160093132 | PAPER SHEET HANDLING SYSTEM AND PAPER SHEET HANDLING METHOD - A paper sheet handling system includes a reception unit | 03-31-2016 |
20160071350 | MAGNETIC-CHARACTERISTICS DETECTION DEVICE - A magnetic property detection apparatus that detects magnetic properties of a magnetic material included in a paper sheet transported through a transport path includes a magnet unit that generates a magnetic field that is perpendicular to a direction of transport of the paper sheet in the transport path and parallel to a transport surface of the paper sheet, of which magnetic field intensity decreases as the paper sheet is being transported in the transport direction, and after the magnetic field intensity has reached 0 (zero), the magnetic field intensity increases with the magnetic field being directed in a reverse direction; and a plurality of magnetic sensors arranged in the magnetic field generated by the magnet unit at locations at which the magnetic field intensity are mutually different, and that detect the magnetic properties of the paper sheet being transported through the transport path. The magnetic properties of the magnetic material included in the paper sheet are detected based on output signals of the plurality of magnetic sensors acquired when the magnetic material is detected. | 03-10-2016 |
20160070947 | IMAGE ACQUISITION DEVICE AND IMAGE ACQUISITION METHOD - Light is emitted on one side of a paper sheet | 03-10-2016 |
20160063794 | BILL RECOGNIZING AND COUNTING APPARATUS - A bill recognizing and counting apparatus includes an operation unit that receives setting of bill processing modes including a denomination mode, a counting mode, a different-denomination recognition mode, and an authenticity determination mode; a feeding and transporting mechanism; and a control unit that performs control for changing a processing speed according to the bill processing mode. When the bill processing mode is in the counting mode, the different-denomination recognition mode, or the authenticity determination mode, the control unit increases the processing speed by setting the feeding and transporting mechanism to a higher speed than the speed set in the denomination mode. The increase in speed is in accordance with a reduced time necessary to process a reduced amount of data associated with the denomination mode. | 03-03-2016 |
20160060070 | PAPER SHEET HANDLING APPARATUS - A paper sheet handling apparatus that recognizes by using a recognition unit and counts paper sheets being transported via a transport path includes a dust tray that is arranged inside a housing of the paper sheet handling apparatus for collecting dust generated inside the housing and that can be pulled out of the paper sheet handling apparatus from a front surface thereof. | 03-03-2016 |
20160049035 | MONEY HANDLING APPARATUS - A money handling apparatus that handles money includes an inlet for taking in money; a money storing unit that stores therein the money; an outlet for dispensing the money; a money transport unit that transports the money between the inlet and the outlet, and the money storing unit; a money recognition unit that is provided to the transport unit and recognizes the money; a check receiving port for receiving a check; a scanner that scans the check to acquire a check image; a check transport unit that transports the check between the check receiving port and the scanner; a check recognition unit that recognizes check information that includes at least a check amount from the check image acquired by the scanner; and a control unit that dispenses money equivalent to an amount of difference between a transaction amount acquired from outside the money handling apparatus and a sum of the check amount and an amount of the deposited money. | 02-18-2016 |
20160035174 | PAPER CURRENCY-PROCESSING DEVICE - A banknote handling apparatus includes an inlet through which banknotes are taken in, a first transport unit and a second transport unit configured to transport each of the banknotes taken in through the inlet, a bundling stacker configured to stack any banknote to be bundled, a bundling unit configured to bundle the stacked banknotes, a dispense port through which the bundled banknotes are dispensed, and a housing. The inlet is arranged in a lower half portion of the housing, and the dispense port is arranged in an upper half portion of the housing. | 02-04-2016 |
20160035172 | PAPER CURRENCY-PROCESSING DEVICE - A banknote handling apparatus includes an inlet, a first transport unit and a second transport unit which are configured to transport banknotes taken in through the inlet, a recognition unit configured to recognize each of the banknotes, a bundling stacker configured to stack any banknote recognized, by the recognition unit, as a banknote to be bundled, a non-bundling stacker configured to stack any banknote recognized, by the recognition unit, as a banknote not to be bundled, a bundling unit configured to bundle the banknotes stacked in the bundling stacker, and a dispense port through which the banknotes bundled by the bundling unit are dispensed. The bundling stacker includes only two bundling stackers, and the non-bundling stacker includes only two non-bundling stackers. | 02-04-2016 |
20160023856 | BANKNOTE STORING/FEEDING UNIT - An object of the invention is to provide a banknote storing/feeding unit which is capable of effectively utilizing winding spaces of a drum and a reel, to increase the number of banknotes to be stored. The banknote storing/feeding unit includes the drum which winds and rewinds a banknote together with a tape, and the reel which winds and rewinds the tape on and from the drum. A guide body swinging according to winding and rewinding of the tape and the banknote on and from the drum is provided between the drum and the reel. The guide body has a guide passage that guides the tape and the banknote to be wound and rewound on the drum. The guide body swings centering on a supporting point located within a region parallel to a virtual line connecting a rotational center of the drum and a rotational center of the reel. | 01-28-2016 |
20150379798 | PAPER SHEET HANDLING MACHINE - A paper sheet handling machine | 12-31-2015 |
20150379495 | MONEY HANDLING SYSTEM, MONEY HANDLING APPARATUS, AND MONEY HANDLING METHOD - A money handling system that performs a process of settling a charge for a specific service includes a charge amount acquiring unit that acquires a charge amount corresponding to the change for the specific service; an amount calculating unit that calculates an amount of the money that has been taken in; and a tip amount identifying unit that identifies a tip amount for the specific service. A main control unit identifies the change amount so that the total of the charge amount acquired by the charge amount acquiring unit, the tip amount identified by the tip amount identifying unit, and the change amount of the money to be dispensed as the change becomes equal to the amount calculated by the amount calculating unit, and exerts control so that the money equivalent to the change amount is dispensed by the banknote dispensing unit and the coin dispensing unit. | 12-31-2015 |
20150325072 | BANKNOTE HANDLING APPARATUS - A banknote handling apparatus | 11-12-2015 |
20150266689 | PAPER SHEET STORING UNIT - First retention member | 09-24-2015 |
20150248874 | MONEY HANDLING SYSTEM, MONEY HANDLING APPARATUS AND MONEY HANDLING METHOD - The money handling system includes: a money handling apparatus | 09-03-2015 |
20150243117 | SETTLEMENT SYSTEM, SETTLEMENT METHOD, AND CASH SETTLEMENT DEVICE - A settlement system includes a register having a reception unit that receives a manual input of information corresponding to at least a part of deposited money from a customer and a transmission unit that transmits a sum amount of money corresponding to the purchased product and manually input information manually input through the reception unit to a cash settlement device and the cash settlement device that calculates an amount of inserted money by recognizing and counting the inserted money, calculates a total amount of the money deposited from the customer by using the amount of the inserted money and the manually input information received from the register, calculates an amount of change based on the total amount of money and the sum amount of money received from the register, and dispenses change money. | 08-27-2015 |
20150221159 | BANKNOTE HANDLING APPARATUS AND BANKNOTE HANDLING METHOD - The object of the present invention is to provide a banknote handling apparatus and a banknote handling method capable of dealing currencies of a number of nations, and handling them at a predetermined speed or more. A banknote handling apparatus according to one embodiment of the present invention includes: a reception unit configured to take in, one by one, a banknote put thereinto; a transport unit configured to transport the taken-in banknote; a memory unit storing a plurality of banknote recognition data elements corresponding to currencies of a plurality of nations; a selection unit configured to select and group a plurality of the banknote recognition data elements stored in the memory unit, such that a predetermined criterion is met; and a recognition unit disposed on the transport unit, and configured to recognize the banknote taken in by the reception unit, based on the grouped banknote recognition data elements. | 08-06-2015 |
20150221158 | BANKNOTE HANDLING APPARATUS - A banknote handling apparatus | 08-06-2015 |
20150213620 | BANKNOTE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND BANKNOTE PROCESSING METHOD - A banknote is irradiated with lights of plural wavelengths. Images of the banknote for each wavelength are acquired. An IR ratio image having a pixel value that is a ratio of a pixel value of the image acquired by the visible light to a corresponding pixel value of the image acquired by the infrared light is generated. The banknote image and the IR ratio image are corrected by a coefficient corresponding to the banknote type, the banknote orientation, and the wavelength. From the banknote image or the IR ratio image, by using the information pertaining to the banknote type, the banknote orientation, and the wavelength, intermediate evaluation values are calculated for each wavelength. Mahalanobis distance is calculated based on the intermediate evaluation values, an average value and a variance-covariance matrix of the intermediate evaluation values, and a degree of soiling is determined based on the Mahalanobis distance. | 07-30-2015 |
20150206402 | MONEY HANDLING MACHINE, MONEY HANDLING SYSTEM AND MONEY HANDLING METHOD - The money handling machine (banknote depositing and dispensing machine | 07-23-2015 |
20150187157 | MONEY HANDLING APPARATUS - A money handling apparatus for performing at least depositing includes: a casing; a depositing unit; a recognition unit configured to at least count or recognize money fed from the depositing unit; an inner storage unit from which the money stored therein is unremovable directly from the outside of the casing; an outer stacking unit from which the money stacked therein is removable directly from the outside of the casing; a transport unit configured to transport the money among the above-described units; and a controller configured to allow selective transport of the money handled by the recognition unit to the inner storage unit, or the outer stacking unit. The controller transfers the money to the inner storage unit when a first deposit mode is selected by a selection signal, or transfers the money to the outer stacking unit when a second deposit mode is selected. | 07-02-2015 |
20150178692 | VALUABLE MEDIUM PROCESSING APPARATUS - A valuable medium processing apparatus is provided. The valuable medium processing apparatus includes an imaging unit that photographs images of valuable media that are depositing process target media, an input unit that inputs amount information on the valuable media based on image data of the valuable media photographed by the imaging unit, and a memory unit that saves the image data acquired by the imaging unit and the amount information inputted by the input unit in association with each other. | 06-25-2015 |
20150154821 | MONEY HANDLING APPARATUS - A money handling apparatus | 06-04-2015 |
20150115947 | PAPER SHEET MAGNETIC DETECTION APPARATUS - The object is to avoid degradation of magnetic detection precision arising due to magnetization of transport rollers used for transporting a paper sheet. A paper sheet magnetic detection apparatus that detects a magnetic material in the paper sheet by using a magnetic sensor includes a transport path that transports paper sheets one by one; at least one magnet that is used in the detection of the magnetic material by the magnetic sensor; and a plurality of transport rollers that are arranged near the magnetic sensor and that transport the paper sheet in the transport path. Outer peripheral surfaces of the plurality of transport rollers that face the transport path are made of a non-magnetic material. | 04-30-2015 |
20150110353 | PAPER-SHEET HANDLING APPARATUS AND PAPER-SHEET HANDLING METHOD - A paper-sheet handling apparatus ( | 04-23-2015 |
20150093229 | PAPER-SHEET COUNTING MACHINE - A paper-sheet counting machine ( | 04-02-2015 |
20150057795 | BANKNOTE HANDLING APPARATUS AND BANKNOTE HANDLING METHOD - A banknote handling apparatus includes: a plurality of storing units | 02-26-2015 |
20140351737 | PAPER-SHEET HANDLING SYSTEM AND PAPER-SHEET HANDLING METHOD - A paper-sheet handling system includes a plurality of paper-sheet handling units | 11-27-2014 |
20140346093 | BANKNOTE RECOGNITION AND COUNTING MACHINE AND BANKNOTE RECOGNITION AND COUNTING METHOD - Banknotes are taken into a banknote recognition and counting machine ( | 11-27-2014 |
20140301793 | MONEY HANDLING SYSTEM AND MONEY HANDLING METHOD - A recognition machine | 10-09-2014 |
20140290539 | REGISTER SYSTEM - In a register system in which a plurality of register units including a register and a money settlement device is provided, the plurality of register units includes a base unit and a terminal unit. A money settlement device of the base unit includes a money storing unit arranged in a safe, an interior of which only a person having specific authority is allowed to access. In addition, the base unit is configured to perform a replenishing process and a collecting process with respect to the terminal unit. | 10-02-2014 |
20140254960 | STORAGE BAG AND PAPER SHEET STORING DEVICE - A storage bag includes a body having a top opening, a first fitting portion and a second fitting portion disposed in the vicinity of the opening of the body, an adhesive portion disposed on an inner surface of the body in the vicinity of the first fitting portion, the adhesive portion being configured to seal the body, and a release sheet detachably adhering to the adhesive portion, the release sheet protecting the adhesive portion, and the release sheet covers at least one of the first fitting portion and the second fitting portion. | 09-11-2014 |
20140238815 | BANKNOTE HANDLING APPARATUS AND BANKNOTE HANDLING METHOD - A banknote handling apparatus that performs a depositing handling or a depositing/dispensing handling by transporting banknotes along a transport path includes a recognizing unit that recognizes an inserted banknotes; a deposit acceptability judging unit that determines, based on a recognition result obtained by the recognizing unit, whether the banknotes is acceptable for deposit; a reject reason identifying unit that identifies a reject reason of rejected banknotes that is determined to be unacceptable for deposit by the deposit acceptability judging unit; and a dispensing handling unit that sorts and dispenses the rejected banknotes based on the reject cause identified by the reject cause identifying unit. | 08-28-2014 |
20140218734 | PAPER SHEET RECOGNITION APPARATUS, LIGHT GUIDE AND LIGHT GUIDE CASING FOR USE IN SPECTROMETRIC MEASUREMENT OF PAPER SHEET - A paper sheet recognition apparatus that recognizes a paper sheet based on optical characteristics of the paper sheet is proposed. The paper sheet recognition apparatus includes at least one light source that emits a light toward the paper sheet; a light-guiding member that receives any of reflected lights reflected from plural regions on the paper sheet and transmitted lights that have passed through plural regions on the paper sheet because of emission of the light on the paper sheet from the light source, condenses the received lights, and outputs the condensed light from a light outputting section; an optical processing unit that generates spectral distribution from the condensed light output from the light outputting section of the light-guiding member; and a recognition processing unit that recognizes the paper sheet based on a feature of the spectral distribution generated by the optical processing unit. | 08-07-2014 |
20140198967 | PAPER SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS - A paper sheet processing apparatus that performs a recognizing process of a paper sheet includes: a paper sheet recognition sensor ( | 07-17-2014 |
20140148084 | MONEY HANDLING APPARATUS, MONEY HANDLING SYSTEM AND MONEY HANDLING METHOD - A money handling apparatus | 05-29-2014 |
20140144750 | Money Depositing/Dispensing Device and Money Management Method of Money Depositing/Dispensing Device - A money depositing/dispensing device includes an inventory amount obtaining unit, a virtual inventory amount setting unit, and a device inventory amount management unit. The inventory amount obtaining unit is configured to count money to be stored in a storage unit and count money fed from the storage unit, thereby successively obtaining an inventory amount in the storage unit. The virtual inventory amount setting unit is configured to set an inventory amount of banknotes which are not present in the device but should be treated as money present in the device, as a virtual inventory amount. The device inventory amount management unit is configured to manage, as an inventory amount in the device, a sum of the inventory amount in the obtained by the storage unit inventory amount obtaining unit and the virtual inventory amount set by the virtual inventory amount setting unit. | 05-29-2014 |
20140135979 | MONEY HANDLING SYSTEM - A money handling system includes a money handling machine that has a money storage unit for storing money, and a money recycling unit for temporarily storing money taken from the exterior of the money handling machine after the money is recognized. The money recycling unit is adapted to feed the money temporarily stored therein to the money storage unit and/or to dispense the temporarily stored money to the exterior of the money handling machine. A wrapped-coin dispensing unit for storing wrapped coins and for dispensing the wrapped coins to the exterior of the money handling machine is also provided. Finally, a central control unit communicates with various components of the money handing machine, while being isolated therefrom. | 05-15-2014 |
20140130450 | PAPER SHEET BUNDLING APPARATUS - A paper sheet bundling apparatus includes a bundling unit | 05-15-2014 |
20140124573 | CASH HANDLING SYSTEM, CASH HANDLING METHOD, MANAGEMENT UNIT AND CASH ACCOUNTING APPARATUS - There is provided a cash handling system capable of reliably storing sales proceeds and the like stored in a cash settlement apparatus into a cash accounting apparatus. A cash management system | 05-08-2014 |
20140110219 | SETTLEMENT SYSTEM, SETTLEMENT METHOD, AND CASH SETTLEMENT DEVICE - A settlement system includes a register having a reception unit that receives a manual input of information corresponding to at least a part of deposited money from a customer and a transmission unit that transmits a sum amount of money corresponding to the purchased product and manually input information manually input through the reception unit to a cash settlement device and the cash settlement device that calculates an amount of inserted money by recognizing and counting the inserted money, calculates a total amount of the money deposited from the customer by using the amount of the inserted money and the manually input information received from the register, calculates an amount of change based on the total amount of money and the sum amount of money received from the register, and dispenses change money. | 04-24-2014 |
20140083814 | MONEY HANDLING APPARATUS, MONEY HANDLING SYSTEM, MONEY TRANSPORT CASSETTE, BANKNOTE HANDLING APPARATUS AND BANKNOTE HANDLING METHOD - A banknote handling apparatus | 03-27-2014 |
20140080395 | COIN DEPOSITING AND DISPENSING MACHINE - In a coin depositing and dispensing machine | 03-20-2014 |
20140072696 | CASSETTE, BANKNOTE PROCESSING MACHINE AND BANKNOTE PROCESSING METHOD - A cassette | 03-13-2014 |
20140069770 | BANKNOTE PROCESSING MACHINE AND BANKNOTE PROCESSING METHOD - A controller | 03-13-2014 |
20140069769 | BANKNOTE HANDLING APPARATUS - In a banknote handling apparatus capable of dealing with a depositing/dispensing process by a banknote cassette and a manual depositing/dispensing process, the banknote handling apparatus enables a depositing process without dispensing a reject banknote, which has been deposited from the banknote cassette, to the outside. A banknote accounting apparatus | 03-13-2014 |
20140060997 | MONEY HANDLING SYSTEM, MONEY SETTLEMENT APPARATUS, MONEY TELLER APPARATUS AND MONEY HANDLING METHOD - A cash handling system includes: a cash settlement apparatus | 03-06-2014 |
20140039673 | BANKNOTE HANDLING APPARATUS - A banknote handling apparatus includes: a first winding storage unit; a second storage unit; a transport unit; a recognition unit; and a control unit. The first storage unit stores the banknotes, while providing a mark associated with inventory amount information of the first storage unit. To perform a reconciliation process for the first storage unit, the control unit allows some of the banknotes stored in the first storage unit to be fed from the first storage unit, based on the mark, for recognition by the recognition unit, and determines an inventory amount of the first storage unit based on a result of the recognition and the inventory amount information associated with the mark. | 02-06-2014 |
20140027241 | BANKNOTE HANDLING APPARATUS - A banknote handling apparatus recognizes and handles banknotes. The banknote handling apparatus includes a depositing unit, a dispensing unit, a plurality of banknote storing units, a transport unit, a recognition unit, and a control unit. The banknote handling apparatus further includes a portion for an optional attachment to which an escrow unit temporarily storing the banknotes in a process of the handling is selectively attachable. The control unit includes an option control unit performing control corresponding to an attached state of the escrow unit and control corresponding to an unattached state. | 01-30-2014 |
20130343652 | CHARACTER STRING EXTRACTION METHOD AND CHARACTER STRING EXTRACTION DEVICE - In a character string extraction method, a character portion, a rim portion, a character frame, and a character string frame are set, a feature value of each image in the character portion and the rim portion is calculated for each character frame, a character string frame evaluation value is calculated based on the feature value for the character string frame, a position of the character string frame is moved on the paper sheet image, and the image in the character portion is extracted by using the character string frame at a position at which the character string frame evaluation value reaches a maximum. | 12-26-2013 |
20130334768 | PAPER SHEET STORING UNIT - First retention member | 12-19-2013 |
20130306528 | MONEY HANDLING APPARATUS - A money handling apparatus | 11-21-2013 |
20130306433 | AUTOMATIC DEALING MACHINE AND AUTOMATIC DEALING SYSTEM - An automatic dealing machine comprises a casing configured for storing a chip handling unit for handling chips, and a banknote handling unit for handling banknotes. The chip handling unit includes a chip insertion port through which chips are received from the exterior of the casing, a chip determination portion for determining the kind of each chip, and a chip calculation portion for calculating the number of the chips, of each kind, as determined by the chip determination portion and the total amount of money. A control unit controls the operation of the dealing machine, such that banknotes of an amount of money corresponding to the total amount of the chips calculated by the chip calculation portion are disbursed into the banknote disbursement port when the chips are inserted through the chip insertion port. | 11-21-2013 |
20130220897 | BANKNOTE HANDLING MACHINE - In one embodiment, a banknote handling machine includes a recognition unit configured to recognize a kind of each banknote taken in a take-in unit, a plurality of stacking units, respectively configured to stack therein the banknotes, a transport unit configured to transport the banknotes, respectively recognized by the recognition unit, to any of the plurality of stacking units, an instruction accepting unit configured to accept an instruction concerning an automatic decision mode provided for deciding the kind of the banknotes to be stacked, by utilizing a recognition result obtained by the recognition unit, for each of the plurality of stacking units, and a control unit configured to control the transport unit to transport each banknote to a destination, which destination is decided based on the instruction accepted by the instruction accepting unit and on the recognition result obtained by the recognition unit. | 08-29-2013 |
20130192951 | BANKNOTE DEPOSIT TRANSACTION APPARATUS AND BANKNOTE DEPOSIT TRANSACTION METHOD - A banknote handling apparatus ( | 08-01-2013 |
20120158592 | TELLER TERMINAL AND CHECK CASHING METHOD - A teller terminal is provided to handle check cashing. The teller terminal is comprised of a storage unit, a scanner, an identifying unit, a charge setting unit, and a display unit. The storage unit stores bank information and charges associated therewith. The scanner generates a check image based on a check received from a customer. The identifying unit extracts bank information and amount information from the check image. The charge setting unit determines, based on the extracted bank information, a charge related to check cashing by referring to the storage unit. The display unit displays a withdrawal amount calculated based on the extracted amount information and the determined charge. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158588 | RECEPTION PROCESS SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system is provided for processing a deposit/withdrawal request from a customer. A bank terminal includes an identifying unit that extracts check information from the check image and extracts slip information from the slip image, an input unit that receives an input information, and a confirmation determining unit that determines, based on at least one of the check information, the slip information, and the input information from the input unit, whether or not a reconfirmation for at least one of the information is necessary. A communication unit transmits the check information, the slip information, and the determination result to a center terminal having a second display unit. The second display unit displays the check information and the slip information and displays information determined necessary to be reconfirmed in a way so as to be distinguished from information determined not necessary to be reconfirmed. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158587 | TELLER TERMINAL AND RECEPTION PROCESS METHOD - A teller terminal for handling a deposit/withdrawal request from a customer. The teller terminal is comprised of a scanner, an identifying unit, a determining unit, and a display unit. The scanner generates a check image based on check received from the customer and generate a slip image based on a slip related to the check. The identifying unit extracts check information from the check image and extracts slip information from the slip image. The determining unit determines whether or not corresponding pieces of information between the check information and the slip information match each other. The display unit displays the determination result determined by the determining unit. | 06-21-2012 |
20120155710 | PAPER-SHEET HANDLING APPARATUS AND PAPER-SHEET HANDLING METHOD - A paper-sheet handling apparatus ( | 06-21-2012 |
20120041590 | BANKNOTE HANDLING APPARATUS - A banknote handling apparatus including a receiving unit that receives banknotes to be counted, a recognition unit that recognizes attributes of the banknotes, a storing unit that stores the banknotes sorted based on a recognition result by the recognition unit, an operation unit for selecting a counting mode and a setting for stacking, and a verification counting process control unit that executes a first counting process when the operation unit selects a verification mode as the counting mode, stores the banknotes in stacking units in a designated first setting for stacking, executes a verification counting process to the banknotes stacked in the first setting for stacking, stores the banknotes in stacking units in a designated second setting for stacking that is different from the first setting for stacking, and determines match/mismatch of the number of banknotes of each denomination in the first counting process and the verification counting process. | 02-16-2012 |
20120012437 | MONEY HANDLING MACHINE - In a money handling machine ( | 01-19-2012 |
20120011813 | BANKNOTE SORTING AND BUNDLING APPARATUS AND BANKNOTE SORTING AND STACKING METHOD - A banknote sorting and bundling apparatus ( | 01-19-2012 |
20110307379 | MONEY PROCESSING SYSTEM AND MONEY PROCESSING METHOD - A money processing system includes a terminal device that stores therein as user information, a terminal user identifier for identifying a user and a code used for confirming the user for security reasons entered by the user, judges whether the received user information matches the stored user information when the user information that is entered at a money handling device is received through a port used for data communication with the money handling device, and establishes a connection with the money handling device from which the user information was received via the port if the pieces of the user information match, and the money handling device for entering the user information. | 12-15-2011 |
20110167727 | GATE APPARATUS - A gate apparatus identifies whether a person is authorized to pass through, and allows the identified person to pass through. The gate apparatus obtains information about a shape of the person who is allowed to pass through. The gate apparatus restricts at least frontward and rearward travel of the person traveling from an entrance to an exit of a passageway in the gate apparatus to form space defined within the passageway, and is capable of adjusting a shape of the defined space based on the obtained shape information of the individual person. | 07-14-2011 |
20110127286 | CHANGE REPLENISHMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND COIN ROLL STORAGE - The change replenishment management system includes a coin roll storage ( | 06-02-2011 |
20110086748 | DRUM ROTATING DEVICE - A drum rotating device enables a drum and a driving device mounted in the drum to be supported with a simple structure and which reduces the possibility that the driving shaft of the driving device may be offset with respect to the rotation axis of the drum. The drum rotation device includes the drum and the driving device arranged to drive and rotate the drum. The drum includes an outer cylinder, an inner cylinder arranged inside the outer cylinder coaxially therewith, and a support wall arranged to connect the outer and inner cylinders to each other at an approximately intermediate portion in the axial direction. The outer and inner cylinders are substantially cylindrical. The driving device is fixed to a frame at one axial end. The driving shaft of the driving device extends through the drum and is rotatably supported by the frame through a bearing at the other axial end. The driving shaft is arranged to extend through the inner cylinder, thereby being fixedly attached the drum so that the drum and the driving shaft can rotate together. | 04-14-2011 |
20110019899 | Money Handling System - In a money handling system in which the number of stacking units is smaller than the number of denomination, banknotes are efficiently sorted by denomination while a deposit process is performed. A money handling system comprises: an operation unit | 01-27-2011 |
20110004337 | PAPER SHEET HANDLING APPARATUS - A paper sheet handling apparatus | 01-06-2011 |
20100308527 | BILL DISCRIMINATING AND COUNTING APPARATUS - A bill discriminating and counting apparatus in which a plurality of bills with different sizes are filled between side hopper members and fed into a transport path by a feeding mechanism. The feeding mechanism comprises a plurality of rollers disposed in a bilaterally symmetrical state. The plurality of rollers are arranged so that, when a distance between the side hopper members is adjusted according to the longitudinal dimension of a bill with the maximum dimension in the longitudinal direction and a bill with the minimum dimension in the longitudinal direction is disposed at a position where the bill is brought into contact with one of the side hopper members, at least a part of the rollers installed on the opposite side of the side hopper member where the bill is brought into contact therewith is brought into contact with the bill. Also, the feeding mechanism comprises a guide member guiding the bill to the inlet of the transport path. The guide member comprises a guide surfaces formed so that the opening area thereof is gradually increased toward the both ends thereof, and the guide surfaces are formed so that the opening area thereof is converged to zero from the insert port toward the inlet of the transport path. | 12-09-2010 |
20100303332 | BANKNOTE HANDLING MACHINE AND BANKNOTE HANDLING METHOD | 12-02-2010 |
20100246904 | FACE AUTHENTICATION DEVICE, FACE AUTHENTICATION METHOD, AND FACE AUTHENTICATION PROGRAM - When a human detection sensor detects a person to be authenticated, an illumination unit obtains ambient light illuminance measured by an illuminance sensor. Lighting illuminance is then determined by using illuminance conversion information, which indicates the lighting illuminance corresponding to the ambient light illuminance, so that when the ambient light illuminance is low, the lighting illuminance becomes low, and when the ambient light illuminance is high, the lighting illuminance becomes high. The illuminance of a light source is controlled so that intensity of illumination becomes the determined illuminance. A face authentication terminal then authenticates the person to be authenticated under illumination by the illumination unit. | 09-30-2010 |
20100244356 | PAPER SHEET HANDLING MACHINE - A paper sheet handling machine | 09-30-2010 |
20100230234 | DEFORMED-COIN DETECTOR - A deformed-coin detector accurately detecting a deformed coin without being affected by a variation in transporting speed of a coin. A coin transported along a coin transporting face comes into contact with detecting elements of coin-thickness detecting bodies, the detecting elements move by a distance corresponding to the dimension of the coin in its thickness direction and simultaneously, light shielding portions of the coin-thickness detecting bodies move. A light detecting portion detects a light shielding amount that varies due to movement of the light shielding portions. A coin denomination determining unit determines a denomination of the coin transported along the coin transporting face and reads a reference light-shielding amount pre-stored in a reference light shielding amount storing unit regarding the denomination. The light shielding amount detected by the light detecting portion is compared with the reference light shielding amount, and when the detected light shielding amount is out of a predetermined range with respect to the reference light shielding amount, the coin is judged to be a deformed coin. | 09-16-2010 |
20100230232 | BANKNOTE DEPOSITING MACHINE AND BANKNOTE DEPOSITING METHOD - A banknote depositing machine has a receiving unit which takes in inserted banknotes, a stacking unit which stacks said banknotes, a transporting unit which transports the banknotes between said receiving unit and said stacking unit, a recognition unit which is provided in said transporting unit, and identifies and counts the banknotes, a storing unit which receives the banknotes from said stacking unit and stores the banknotes, and a controlling unit which, if said recognition unit has judged a banknote as abnormal, stops said transporting unit. | 09-16-2010 |
20100230231 | CASH COLLECTION APPARAUTS AND SYSTEM - A currency collection and processing apparatus including a housing, a coin processing module disposed in the housing and configured to store a plurality of coins, and a banknote processing unit disposed in the housing. The banknote processing unit including a banknote inlet, a banknote recognition unit, at least one banknote storing unit, and a transport unit configured to transport a banknote along a transport path connecting the inlet, the recognition unit, and the storing unit. The currency collection and processing apparatus further including an input interface, a processing control unit configured to calculate at least one of a first value representing the plurality of coins stored in the coin processing module and a second value representing the received banknotes, and to process at least one of the inputted data and the first and second calculated values, and an output device configured to output information to a user. | 09-16-2010 |
20100207317 | PAPER-SHEET FEEDING DEVICE WITH KICKER ROLLER - A paper-sheet feeding device including a kicker roller configured to contact a forefront paper-sheet of a plurality of stacked paper-sheets and kick out the forefront paper-sheet; a feed roller to feed-out the paper-sheets to be kicked out by the kicker roller; and a press-fitting roller press-fit against the feed roller to provide a gate unit adapted to separate the paper-sheets to be fed by the feed roller, into one sheet. The kicker roller includes a base part and a high friction part formed in part of the outer circumference of the base part along the circumferential direction and configured to kick out the forefront paper-sheet. The feed roller includes a base part and a high friction part formed over the entire outer circumference of the base part and configured to contact the surface of the paper-sheet to be kicked out by the kicker roller to perform feed-out of the paper-sheet. | 08-19-2010 |
20100126915 | BANKNOTE HANDLING APPARATUS - An object is improving handling efficiency of a banknote handling apparatus and reducing operator's work load. A banknote handling apparatus has a receiving unit receiving banknotes, a recognition unit recognizing kinds of banknotes, a first, a second, and a reject stacking units stacking banknotes to be bundled, a batch of banknotes, and rejected banknotes, a transport unit transporting banknotes, a bundling unit bundling banknotes to be bundled, a setting unit setting kinds of banknotes, and a controller performing a transport, a bundling, and a batch controls. In the transport control, banknotes are transported to a destination of transport. In the bundling control, banknotes to be bundled are bundled when a predetermined number of banknotes is stacked in the first stacking unit. In the batch control, temporarily stopping or switching destination of transport is performed when a predetermined number of banknotes to be removed as a batch are stacked in the second stacking unit. | 05-27-2010 |
20100117294 | PAPER SHEET HOLDING APPARATUS - A paper sheet storage unit | 05-13-2010 |
20100102498 | BANKNOTE PROCESSING MACHINE - A banknote processing machine which can be set to a banknote putting-in one by one mode and a banknote putting-in collectively mode and can reliably keep a state of the banknote putting-in one by one mode is provided. An opening regulating member is provided which sets an opening size of an inlet in a put-in banknote thickness direction to an opening size for putting banknotes in one by one and an opening size for putting banknotes in collectively. A fixing unit fixes the opening regulating member to a position of the opening size for putting banknotes in one by one and regulates setting the position of the opening regulating member to the position of the opening size for putting banknotes in collectively. In the case of an operator unused to the operation, the banknote putting-in one by one mode is adopted to reduce a banknote jam in depositing. In the case of an operator used to the operation of banknote replenishment, the banknote putting-in collectively mode is adopted to improve efficiency in the banknote replenishment. | 04-29-2010 |
20100090397 | TRANSPORT DIVERTER AND PAPER SHEET PROCESSING UNIT - A conveying and dividing mechanism in which a first conveyance path and a second conveyance path facing each other can bidirectionally convey banknotes between each other and that can divide into multiple-direction banknotes conveyed from both the first conveyance path and the second conveyance path. A first dividing member is rockably provided at the intersection of the first conveyance path, the second conveyance path, a third conveyance path, and a fourth conveyance path. The first dividing member enables banknotes to be bidirectionally conveyed between the first and second conveyance paths. Further, the first dividing member enables bank notes conveyed from the first and second conveyance paths to be divided into the third and fourth conveyance paths. | 04-15-2010 |
20100090393 | BANKNOTE FEEDING APPARATUS - A banknote feeding apparatus | 04-15-2010 |
20100062701 | COIN DEPOSITING AND DISPENSING MACHINE - A coin depositing and dispensing machine having an accommodating and dispensing portion enabling coins to enter/exit a transporting unit, and the transporting unit can be used for both a depositing and a dispensing system. This enables the coin dispensing port, collection coin dispensing port and replenishment coin input slots to be flexibly arranged in a front face, rear face, and upper face or rear face, of a machine body respectively. Coins to be dispensed and coins to be collected can be dispensed from the collection coin dispensing port in the rear face of the machine body. Additionally, coins for replenishment are put into the replenishment coin input slot, and the accommodating and dispensing portion can be directly replenished with coins through a replenishment chute portion. | 03-11-2010 |
20100062700 | COIN DEPOSITING AND DISPENSING MACHINE - A coin depositing and dispensing machine prevents a foreign object mixed together with coins put in a coin receiving port from causing a malfunction, facilitates distinguishing coins of a depositing and transporting system from coins of a dispensing and transporting system, and facilitates removal of a coin jam. Coins received from a coin receiving port are fed separately by a feeding unit to a depositing and transporting unit. A rotary disc rotated at a position tilted at a predetermined angle is used for the feeding unit. By using the rotary disc, only coins are fed to the depositing and transporting unit, and foreign objects are eliminated. The depositing and transporting unit and a dispensing and transporting unit are arranged opposite to each other in a machine body, and the depositing and transporting unit is tilted together with the rotary disc. Coins in each unit are thereby easily distinguished from each other. | 03-11-2010 |
20100042250 | COIN ACCOMMODATING AND DISPENSING DEVICE - A cyclic transporting unit is provided. The transporting unit transports coins one by one in reverse directions in depositing and dispensing. A plurality of accommodating and dispensing portions are arranged along the transporting unit. Since coins enter and exit the transporting unit through a single coin inlet/outlet of the accommodating and dispensing portion, a depositing and transporting route and a dispensing and transporting route of the transporting unit can be made common to each other. The accommodating and dispensing portion accommodates coins with the coins not aligned, and dispenses accommodated coins one by one to the transporting unit by a rotary disc and a delivering disc. | 02-18-2010 |
20100041325 | COIN PROCESSING METHOD AND COIN PROCESSING UNIT - Coins in an escrow unit and a holding and feeding unit can be collectively returned without increasing the size of a coin processing unit. Stopping positions of the escrow unit are set to an escrow position “a” where the coins sent from the transport path are received, an ejection position “b” where the coins dropped and released from the holding and feeding unit are received, a returning position “c” where the escrowed coins are dropped to a returning box, and a storing position “d” where the escrowed coins are dropped to the coin cassette. The escrow unit is moved to the ejection position “b”, then the escrow unit is moved to the returning position “c”. Thus, return of coins in the holding and feeding unit can be carried out immediately. | 02-18-2010 |
20100038842 | PAPER-SHEET FEEDING DEVICE - A torque limiter between a pressure roller and shaft, which is configured to allow the pressure roller to rotate in a feed-out direction of a paper-sheet P, relative to the shaft, when force greater than predetermined torque T is applied to the pressure roller along a circumferential direction thereof, while interlocking the pressure roller with the shaft, when the force applied to the pressure roller along the circumferential direction thereof is less than the predetermined torque. The predetermined torque is set less than frictional force N | 02-18-2010 |
20100032352 | BANKNOTE HANDLING APPARATUS - A banknote handling apparatus including a receiving unit that receives banknotes to be counted, a recognition unit that recognizes attributes of the banknotes, a storing unit that stores the banknotes sorted based on a recognition result by the recognition unit, an operation unit for selecting a counting mode and a setting for stacking, and a verification counting process control unit that executes a first counting process when the operation unit selects a verification mode as the counting mode, stores the banknotes in stacking units in a designated first setting for stacking, executes a verification counting process to the banknotes stacked in the first setting for stacking, stores the banknotes in stacking units in a designated second setting for stacking that is different from the first setting for stacking, and determines match/mismatch of the number of banknotes of each denomination in the first counting process and the verification counting process. | 02-11-2010 |
20100030372 | BANKNOTE HANDLING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING BANKNOTE HANDLING APPARATUS - A banknote handling apparatus and a method of controlling the banknote handling apparatus that make the display of complicated functions and configuration of a banknote handling apparatus easy for the operator to understand. A banknote handling apparatus of the present invention includes an operation unit that accepts an instruction from an operator, first and second display units that can display graphics, a storage unit that stores first and second data for display on the first and second display units, detecting part that detects an occurrence of a predetermined event, and a control unit that reads out first and second data stored in the storage unit based on the content of the event, causes the first display unit to display the first data, and causes the second display unit to display the second data, when the detecting part detects the occurrence of the predetermined event. | 02-04-2010 |
20100029188 | COIN DISPENSING DEVICE AND COIN PROCESSING MACHINE - A coin dispensing device having a mechanism to reliably dispensing a predetermined number of coins. Coins are accommodated on a surface side of a rotary disc rotating at a position tilted at a predetermined angle. A dispensing and transporting passage guides coins dispensed by rotation of the rotary disc to a coin inlet/outlet. A gate member for opening/closing the coin inlet/outlet is provided at the coin inlet/outlet. A projection is provided at the dispensing and transporting passage. When coins are dispensed, the projection retracts under the dispensing and transporting passage according to opening operation of the gate member, allowing the coins to be transported. When no coin is dispensed, the projection projects from the dispensing and transporting passage according with closing operation of the gate member to regulate transportation of coins. | 02-04-2010 |
20100017018 | SORT PATTERN CREATING DEVICE, SORT PATTERN CREATING METHOD, AND SORT PATTERN CREATING SYSTEM - A sort pattern creating method for creating a sort pattern is provided, for a banknote handling apparatus | 01-21-2010 |
20100015903 | COIN DEPOSITING AND DISPENSING MACHINE - A coin depositing and dispensing machine is provided where its transport mechanism is simplified and downsized while coins to be dispensed are subjected to the identifying action. A coin passage | 01-21-2010 |
20100010663 | BANKNOTE HANDLING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING BANKNOTE HANDLING APPARATUS - A banknote handling apparatus that can easily designate attributes of banknotes to be stacked on stacking units and a method of controlling the apparatus. The apparatus includes a control unit that controls the banknote handling apparatus, a hopper that feeds out banknotes according to an instruction of the control unit, a plurality of stacking units that stack the banknotes according to an attribute of the banknotes, a recognition unit that recognizes the attribute of the banknotes fed out from the hopper, and an operation unit that accepts a predetermined instruction. The control unit causes the hopper to feed out the banknotes, causes the recognition unit to recognize the attribute of the banknotes, and designates the attribute of the recognized banknotes as the attribute of the banknotes to be stacked on a predetermined stacking unit when an instruction of a stacking unit setting mode is accepted through the operation unit. | 01-14-2010 |
20100007080 | SHEET HANDLING DEVICE AND SHEET HANDLING METHOD - A sheet handling device includes a main transport path, a temporarily holding section provided in the main transport path, a transport section, a detection section provided at a predetermined detection position in the main transport path and a controller. The temporarily holding section includes a looped transport path. The controller performs a procedure including the steps of (I) transporting the sheet traveling along the main transport path to the looped transport path, (II) transporting another sheet along the main transport path, (III) controlling the transportation of the sheet and the transportation of said another sheet in response to the arrival of said another sheet at the detection position such that the sheets are stacked into a bunch in the looped transport path with certain parts of the sheets being aligned and (IV) repeating the steps (II) and (III) as required. | 01-14-2010 |
20100007075 | PAPER SHEET HANDLING MACHINE - A paper sheet handling machine | 01-14-2010 |
20100000838 | BANKNOTE DISCRIMINATION APPARATUS AND BANKNOTE DISCRIMINATION METHOD - A banknote discrimination apparatus | 01-07-2010 |
20090319080 | BANKNOTE PROCESSING DEVICE - In addition to storing cassettes ( | 12-24-2009 |
20090255984 | PAPER SHEET HANDLING SYSTEM, METHOD OF USE THEREOF, AND METHOD OF USE OF BAR-CODE TICKET HANDLING MACHINE - Disclosed herein is a method of use of a paper-sheet handling system comprising the steps of: preparing a paper-sheet handling system configured to handle a bundle of paper-sheets including banknotes and bar-code tickets, the paper-sheet handling system including, a banknote handling machine configured to take in the paper-sheets from the exterior, one sheet at a time, discriminate the banknotes from the paper-sheets taken therein, and reject the paper-sheets when the paper-sheets other than the banknotes are taken therein, a bar-code ticket handling machine configured to taken in the paper-sheets from the exterior, one sheet at a time, read the bar-code information of each bar-code ticket included in the paper-sheets taken therein while obtaining an image of the bar-code ticket, and reject the paper-sheets when the paper-sheets other than the bar-code tickets are taken therein, and a host controller being communicatively connected both with the banknote handling machine and with the bar-code ticket handling machine, information concerning the discrimination result of the banknotes being sent from the banknote handling machine to the host controller as well as the bar-code information read from each bar-code ticket being sent from the bar-code ticket handling machine to the host controller; preparing the bundle including at least one of the banknotes and the bar-code tickets; and first having either one handling machine of the banknote handling machine or bar-code ticket handling machine handle the prepared bundle, and then having the other handling machine handle the paper-sheets that are rejected by the one handling machine. | 10-15-2009 |
20090242624 | BANKNOTE HANDLING APPARATUS - To improve the work efficiency of an operator, a banknote handling apparatus includes a first operating part that receives an instruction, a banknote handling section that handles banknotes on the basis of the instruction received by the first operating part, a first displaying part that is provided on the same surface as the first operating part, a second displaying part that is provided on a surface different from the surface of the first displaying part, and a controller that displays information on handling of the banknote handling section in the first and second displaying parts. | 10-01-2009 |
20090229950 | Verification system and banknote-and-coin handling system - A verification system for a banknote-and-coin handling system includes a banknote machine for depositing, dispensing, and sorting, a coin machine for depositing, dispensing, and sorting, and a monitor server. The coin machine for depositing, dispensing, and sorting includes a hopper, a discriminating portion, and coin storage portions. The banknote machine for depositing, dispensing, and sorting includes a banknote input portion, a deposit discriminating unit, and banknote storage portions. The monitoring server includes a verification instructing unit and a verification command transmitting unit. The banknote-and-coin handling system further includes a verification processing unit executing a verification process based on the verification command transmitted by said verification command transmitting unit, and a verification result transmitting unit transmitting a result of the verification of said verification processing unit to said monitor server. | 09-17-2009 |
20090202134 | PRINT INSPECTING APPARATUS - A print inspecting apparatus capable of identifying a page of a form corresponding to a clipped image without requiring a special barcode or printing, is provided. A print inspecting apparatus | 08-13-2009 |
20090107800 | COUNTERFEIT MONEY DISCRIMINATION SUPPORT DEVICE - The counterfeit money discrimination support device is configured to eject only the banknotes of the same denomination as a predetermined denomination of money, as specific banknotes, among banknotes taken into the device from the exterior. The denomination and quantity of the specific banknotes ejected to the exterior are stored in a memory 23. Thereafter, the specific banknotes discriminated as being not counterfeit banknotes, by hand, are then taken again into the device. When the denomination and quantity of the specific banknotes taken again into the device respectively correspond to the denomination and quantity stored in the memory 23, the discriminating operation for the counterfeit banknotes is judged to have been properly completed. | 04-30-2009 |
20090101723 | Bill/coin processing system - A bill and coin processing system including a bill and coin processing apparatus having: an interface unit capable of exchanging information via a communication unit with the point-of-sales terminal machine; a money receiving unit receiving money by way of a price of a commercial product; a discriminating unit discriminating between at least denominations of the bills and coins received from the money receiving unit; a storing/discharging unit stored with the received bills and coins on the basis of a result of the discrimination made by the discriminating unit and capable of discharging the bills and coins by giving a discharge instruction to the bill and coin processing apparatus from the point-of-sales terminal machine; a money discharging unit discharging the bills and coins outside a machine, which have been discharged from the storing/discharging unit; and a control unit controlling the money discharging unit to discharge the bills and coins from the storing/discharging unit on the basis of a discharge instruction accepted by the interface unit and given to the bill and coin processing apparatus from the point-of-sales terminal machine. | 04-23-2009 |
20090101468 | Bill/coin processing system - Provided is a bill and coin processing system having: a bill change discharger constructed as a bill receiving/discharging machine; and a coin change discharger constructed as a coin receiving/discharging machine, wherein a machine dimension of each of the bill change discharger and the coin change discharger is that a width is equal to or smaller than 500 mm, a depth is equal to or smaller than 600 mm, and a height is equal to or smaller than 400 mm. Further provided is a similar bill and coin processing system, wherein money input/output ports of the bill change discharger and of the coin change discharger are disposed in positions, which are 700 mm through 1500 mm in height from a floor surface. Still further provided is a bill and coin processing system having: a bill change discharger constructed as a bill receiving/discharging machine; a coin change discharger constructed as a coin receiving/discharging machine; and a coin-roll box installed under the bill change discharger and the coin change discharger, wherein a machine dimension of each of the bill change discharger and the coin change discharger is that a width is equal to or smaller than 500 mm, a depth is equal to or smaller than 600 mm, and a height is equal to or smaller than 400 mm, and a box dimension of the coin-roll box is that a width is equal to or smaller than 1000 mm, a depth is equal to or smaller than 600 mm, and a height is equal to or smaller than 100 mm. | 04-23-2009 |
20090090660 | BILL DISCRIMINATING AND COUNTING APPARATUS - The present invention relates to a bill discriminating and counting apparatus having a function of handling bills of a plurality of currency systems with one machine. That is to say, by providing a plurality of START/STOP keys for starting discriminating and counting of the bills, and by assigning the bills of different currency systems to each of them, the bills of a plurality of currency systems may be handled only by operating the START/STOP key corresponding to the currency system, without performing selection and setting of the currency system each time. | 04-09-2009 |
20090071793 | COIN DEPOSITING AND DISPENSING MACHINE - A coin depositing and dispensing machine automatically returning coins remaining on a passage in case an error-stop during depositing operation. The coins on the passage are transported by the transporting unit for depositing in a reverse transporting direction reverse to the depositing and transporting direction, one coin in a sorting passage is transported to the upstream side from a rejecting portion. Then, the coins on the passage are transported by the transporting unit for depositing in the depositing and transporting direction, and eliminated by the rejecting portion. While the coins on the passage are transported by the transporting unit for depositing alternately in the depositing and transporting direction and the reverse transporting direction, the coins in the sorting passage are eliminated by the rejecting portion one by one. | 03-19-2009 |
20090057423 | CASH PROCESSING MACHINE - This invention provides a coin depositing and dispensing machine capable of clearly specifying whether each coin dispensed into the same coin dispensing port is a coin to be paid or rejected coin, and preventing the coins from being mistakenly mishandled. Light emitting unit capable of emitting light of different colors is disposed in the vicinity of the coin dispensing port. The light emitting unit emits a green light if the coin dispensed into the coin dispensing port is a coin to be paid, and emits a red light if the dispensed coin is a rejected coin. The light emitting unit irradiates light to the whole coin dispensing port and the coins themselves in the coin dispensing port. When the coins are taken out from the coin dispensing port, it can be recognized whether the coin is a coin to be paid or rejected coin. | 03-05-2009 |
20090057093 | Bill/coin processing system - A banknote and coin handling system for banknotes/coins, has a banknote deposit/payment sorting machine including: a banknote input port; a discriminating portion; a payment discriminating portion; a bundle discriminating portion; a banknote inverting portion; a batch-manner temporary holding portion; plural banknote storage portions; a bundle handling unit; a loose banknote payment port; a banknote bundle payment port; a reject port; a batch-manner storage portion; a banknote bundle storage portion; and a bundle ejection port, and a coin deposit/payment sorting machine including: a loose coin input port; a coin discriminating portion; coin temporary holding portions; a coin batch-manner temporary holding portion; coin storage portions; a coin wrapping portion; a loose coin payment box; a wrapped coin output port; a wrapped coin payment port; a wrapped coin storage box; a bag storage; a reject box; and a return box, wherein various functions can be arbitrarily set. | 03-05-2009 |
20090047888 | COIN DEPOSITING AND DISPENSING MACHINE - A compact coin depositing and dispensing machine is provided with a cyclic conveying device. The conveying device conveys, one by one, coins, accepted in a coin acceptance port, in a depositing and conveying direction, and conveys, one by one, coins, to be ejected to a coin ejection port, in a dispensing and conveying direction reverse the depositing and conveying direction. A plurality of accommodating and ejecting units are disposed along the conveying device. Because each accommodating and ejecting unit outputs and inputs coins to and from the conveying device through the same coin outlet/inlet, a depositing and conveying path and a dispensing and conveying path of the conveying device can be arranged as a common path. Each accommodating and ejecting unit accommodates coins in a non-aligned state and ejects accommodated coins one by one to the conveying device. | 02-19-2009 |
20090026692 | PAPER-SHEET FEEDING DEVICE - A paper-sheet feeding device including a kicker roller configured to contact a forefront paper-sheet of a plurality of stacked paper-sheets and kick out the forefront paper-sheet; a feed roller to feed-out the paper-sheets to be kicked out by the kicker roller; and a press-fitting roller press-fit against the feed roller to provide a gate unit adapted to separate the paper-sheets to be fed by the feed roller, into one sheet. The kicker roller includes a base part and a high friction part formed in part of the outer circumference of the base part along the circumferential direction and configured to kick out the forefront paper-sheet. The feed roller includes a base part and a high friction part formed over the entire outer circumference of the base part and configured to contact the surface of the paper-sheet to be kicked out by the kicker roller to perform feed-out of the paper-sheet. | 01-29-2009 |
20090017740 | Change Complement and Control System - A change complement and control system according to the present invention comprises a coin-roll storage | 01-15-2009 |
20090014277 | Bill Discriminating and Counting Apparatus - According to the present invention, pieces of data of states of sensors and actuators in a bill discriminating and counting apparatus are stored in a ring memory at constant time intervals, among these stored data, both the data involved in an error are associated with the error events and stored in a non-volatile memory or a hard disk when the error is occurred in the bill discriminating and counting apparatus, and then the data is read from the non-volatile memory or hard disk to analyze the error. Specifically, digital port input and output information (states of sensors and actuators), analog sensor voltage, and analog motor current value are stored in a memory at constant time intervals since the power is turned on or the counting is started, and the stored port information and voltage are stored in the non-volatile memory or the like along with contents of abnormality when the abnormality is occurred. | 01-15-2009 |
20090004959 | COIN DEPOSITING AND DISPENSING MACHINE - A coin depositing and dispensing machine includes a partition frame arranged in front of a denomination-specific coin accumulating and ejecting portion. A pooling hopper portion and a coin identifying and sorting passage are provided on the front face of the partition frame. The partition frame can be moved between a position at which the denomination-specific coin accumulating and ejecting portion is partitioned from the outside of the machine body | 01-01-2009 |
20080281588 | SPEECH PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND SPEECH SYSTEM - A speech processing apparatus includes a spectrum envelope extracting unit which extracts the spectrum envelope of an input speech signal, a spectrum envelope deforming unit which applies deformation to the spectrum envelope to generate a deformed spectrum envelope, a spectrum fine structure extracting unit which extracts the spectrum fine structure of the input speech signal, a deformed spectrum generating unit which generates a deformed spectrum by combining the deformed spectrum envelope with the spectrum fine structure, and a speech generating unit which generates an output speech signal on the basis of the deformed spectrum. This apparatus emits a disrupting sound based on the output speech signal to prevent a third party from eavesdropping on a conversation. | 11-13-2008 |
20080230981 | Paper-Sheet Storing and Feeding Device - A sheet storing/feeding device includes a receptacle for holding standing sheets, a stacking and feeding mechanism to successively carry the sheets into the receptacle and to feed a forefront sheet out of the receptacle. A pushing member configured to be optionally advanced and retracted is provided on the side of the forefront sheet in the receptacle, and a holding member is provided to be in contact with a backmost sheet in the receptacle. A retaining member is provided to be optionally advanced and retracted relative to a storage space defined between the stacking and feeding mechanism and the holding member. The retaining member, when advanced, can hold the sheets in the receptacle between the retaining member and the holding member so as to bring them into a temporary holding state, while, when retracted, can release the paper-sheets in the temporary holding state. | 09-25-2008 |