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WO/1997/026627A1 |
A device for selecting objects inserted as payment into a product or service dispenser through an insertion slot. The device includes a transport member provided with a recess for receiving one object at a time and conveying the object p...
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WO/1997/025692A1 |
A coin sorter has a circular sorting track (14) with an upstanding rim (15). A diverter mechanism (30) is located at the rim and may be actuated to move a selected coin away from the rim to an off-sort depression (33) and then to an off-...
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WO/1997/013224A1 |
A coin detection and identifying apparatus and method, utilize three closely aligned electric coils. The center coil (L2) is actively driven by an alternating current (12) to generate a magnetic field. The two outer coils (L1, L3) are sy...
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WO/1997/013227A1 |
A computer implemented gambling chip recognition system having the ability to capture an image of a stack of gambling chips and automatically processing the image to determine the number of chips within the stack and the value of each. T...
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WO/1997/008664A1 |
Apparatus for obtaining certain characteristics of an article (60, 62), the apparatus including an electromagnet inductor (10, 30) with a first end (20, 54) and a second end (20, 54) with an air gap (24, 58) therebetween, there being at ...
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WO/1997/004424A1 |
A coin validator (1) is provided with at least two reference positions (U, D) for determining a diameter related characteristic of a coin being validated. In order to reduce the running to the testing station, the timing of a trailing po...
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WO/1997/004425A1 |
An inductor (12) comprises a coil (21) wound onto a former (20). The former (20) is made by injection moulding a composition comprising greater than 79 % by weight ferrite and a binder such as polypropylene. The inductor may be used in a...
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WO/1996/036022A2 |
A method of testing coins comprising at least taking two measurements of an unknown coin: and accepting said unknown coin as corresponding to a first coin type if the point defined by the measurements lies, in the space defined by the ax...
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WO/1996/031847A1 |
A coin validator with an improved coin processing rate, performs primary validation testing on coins (3) at a primary validation station (5) as successive coins roll down a coin rundown path (4). Unacceptable coins pass to a coin reject ...
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WO/1996/030877A1 |
A device is used to separate foreign objects from a mass of coins between a coin intake and a coin lifting device in a coin sorting and/or counting machine. The device has a perforated drum (13; 33), which is rotatable around its longitu...
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WO/1996/027859A1 |
A coin discrimination sensor and coin handling system for discriminating among desired and undesired coins, comprised of an excitation coil (212) for producing an alternating magnetic field. These alternating magnetic fields couple to th...
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WO/1996/017329A2 |
A gambling chip authentication device comprising an authentication area (26) combined with an antenna (14) built into the top of a gambling table, a unit (12) for reading data from an electronic memory device built into a chip (28) place...
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WO/1996/014115A1 |
The object of the invention is to create a games system for use in professional card or token table games such as "blackjack" with automated monitoring and automatic recording and evaluation of all moves in a game. This is achieved by pr...
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WO/1996/010809A1 |
In a coin sensing station, coins pass edgewise along a passageway (10) through a transparent block (9) and interrupt three optical sensing beams (34, 37, 38) that transverse the passageway at spaced locations. The beams are produced by l...
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WO/1996/007992A1 |
A coin or banknote validator is calibrated to accept items of value by taking successive measurements of items and using them to update acceptability data which defines at least one acceptability criterion for testing. Each measurement i...
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WO/1996/005575A1 |
A coin validator which uses inductive and capacitive effects to validate a coin has an inductor coil close to the capacitor for compactness. The capacitor plate is formed so as to obstruct circulating currents which would otherwise be in...
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WO/1995/031797A1 |
A distributed processing apparatus capable of easily changing the set data written in a memory (19) in a coin sorting machine (1-1) to be processed. A computer (50) is connected to a mode terminal of a CPU (11) in the coin sorting machin...
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WO/1995/026540A1 |
Coin validation apparatus comprising a coin path (2, 5, 6); an impact element (14) disposed in the coin path to be contacted by a coin (10); an impact transducer (8) arranged to generate an output signal in dependence on vibration of the...
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WO/1995/024697A1 |
Apparatus for validating items of value comprising a measurement circuit including an inductor, the complex impedance of which varies in accordance with the interaction between a test item of value and a magnetic field within which the i...
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WO/1995/024024A1 |
A process and device for recognising valid and invalid coins allow coins to be sorted in a precise and troublefree manner. During a learning step, characteristic values of reference coins are detected without contact and the measured val...
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WO/1995/021426A1 |
The invention relates to a device for testing the genuineness of coins and coin-like objects, consisting of a transmission coil to which a first a.c. voltage is applied and a reception coil in which a second a.c. voltage is induced by th...
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WO/1995/019615A1 |
A method for identifying metallic coins and tokens, comprising: a pplying an input signal to an ac-bridge (11); bringing a coin/token in the vicinity of one arm of the ac-bridge; sensing an output signal of the ac-bridge; and associating...
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WO/1995/019018A1 |
A discriminator for coins and tokens monitors the extent to which an alternating electromagnetic field is coupled through a deposited coin (22) and a reference coin (24) as the deposited coin passes along a feed path (40). A first electr...
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WO/1995/016978A1 |
A method of categorising coins/tokens by energising detect coils with a single pulse detecting the back EMF curve of the decaying pulse information, analysing the unmodified back EMF curve to extract therefrom a number of variables and p...
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WO/1995/013596A1 |
A coin sorter of sorting mixed coins by denomination includes a rotatable disc (13), a drive motor (14) for rotating the disc, and a stationary sorting head (12) having a lower surface generally parallel to the upper surface of the rotat...
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WO/1995/006300A1 |
A coin detection apparatus is disclosed which is particularly suitable for low power applications. The coin detection apparatus utilizes a detector coil as part of a resonant circuit. The resonant circuit with no coin present in the dete...
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WO/1994/019774A1 |
In a coin handling apparatus, a single sensor (30) detects impacts of the coin at different positions within the apparatus, and uses the output to determine the route taken by the coin through the apparatus, and the speed of the coin.
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WO/1994/015322A1 |
A coin sensor, such as a post acceptance sensor for a coin validator, at a coin sensing station (12) on a coin path (10) having a sidewall (16), includes optical source and detector pairs (13a, 14a; 13b, 14b) that detect the presence of ...
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WO/1994/012951A1 |
In a process for the classification of an article such as a banknote described by of a k-dimensional feature vector (AGF) which is prepared by a preliminary processing system (7), a test specimen is either assigned to one of n target cla...
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WO/1994/011847A1 |
There are many occasions when it is required to sort a mixed lot of coins into their several denominations and when such a sort is carried out it is important that provision be made for distinguishing not only real coins of the required ...
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WO/1994/009452A1 |
In a coin detection system a coin (1) passes between conductive plates (7, 9) which form a capacitor, which provides part of the frequency controlling capacitance of an LC tuned oscillator circuit (23). The presence of a coin (1) between...
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WO/1994/004998A1 |
The method described for the calibration of coin-checking devices, as well as the calibration device used, is based on the use of normal coins, requires only few on-line measurements and is therefore suitable for use in the field. The ca...
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WO/1994/004996A1 |
Coin discrimination apparatus comprises an electrical coil (52) for generating an electrical current pulse which increases from zero to a predetermined, absolute value (e.g. 2 Amps) so as to induce an eddy current in a coin adjacent the ...
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WO/1994/003874A1 |
A coin handling apparatus can operate in either one of two modes. In a first mode, coins are delivered to containers unless a predetermined maximum level T has been reached. When a serviceman services the machine, each container is autom...
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WO/1994/003875A1 |
A method of calculating a combination of coins to be dispensed as change comprises evaluating different possible combinations and selecting the most favourable one. One combination is determined according to priority, giving higher prior...
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WO/1993/022747A1 |
A coin validator has a sensor circuit including two sensor coils (12, 14) each of small diameter, the coils being positioned such that they are passed in succession by a coin moving through a test section of the validator. The sensor cir...
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WO/1993/021608A1 |
A method of testing a coin (10) in a coin testing mechanism, comprising subjecting a coin (10) inserted into the mechanism to an oscillating field generated by an inductor (104), measuring the reactance and the loss of the inductor (104)...
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WO/1993/018489A1 |
An apparatus for sensing coins is disclosed which is capable of distinguishing between valid and non-valid coins as well as between the different denominations of coins. The apparatus is useful for application in coin-operated parking me...
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WO/1993/009532A1 |
A new and improved unshielded horizontal magnetoresistive head (100) is disclosed which utilizes multiple pairs of magnetoresistive elements (1, 2, 3, 4). The present invention provides a device which is characterized by reduced output s...
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WO/1993/007589A1 |
A device for sorting coins by thickness, material, or outside diameter with a high accuracy. A transmission coil (11) applies an alternating magnetic field to a coin (C) to be sorted, receiving an alternating signal which is generated by...
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WO/1993/006569A1 |
Coin discrimination apparatus includes a coin rundown path (4) along which coins roll so as to impact a snubber (8) provided with a piezo electric device (13). The coin impact produces an oscillatory voltage output from the device, which...
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WO/1993/004448A1 |
Coin discrimination apparatus such as a coin validator includes a pair of coils (6a, 6b) on opposite sides of a coin rundown path (4), which are selectively energised to carry out a sequence of inductive tests on a coin as it passes betw...
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WO/1993/002431A1 |
In a coin testing apparatus of the type in which the coins are brought to pass an electromagnetic detection field this field is generated from a single coil (6), which is concurrently supplied with a high frequent signal (500 kHz) and tw...
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WO/1993/002432A1 |
A coin testing device comprising two parts (2, 4) carrying coin sensor elements (14, 16), the two parts being capable of relative movement apart from each other for access to the space between them. When the parts are closed, their relat...
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WO/1992/018951A1 |
Money items are validated by determining whether n measured properties lie within an n-dimensional ellipse associated with a particular money item. The centre of the ellipse lies on the statistical mean of the property measurements for t...
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WO/1992/018950A1 |
The object of the invention is a feeding device for a coin-sorting machine, comprising a coin-distribution disc by means of which the coins are transferred to a rolling track. The distribution disc (50) of the feeding device comprises at...
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WO/1992/018952A1 |
The object of the invention is a coin-sorting machine comprising a coin-feeding device (3), a rolling track (4) along the bottom (5) of which the coins (6) roll from the beginning (7a) of the rolling track through the separation device (...
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WO/1992/015970A1 |
A system for validating coins comprises a transmitter coil (2) for transmitting low-frequency electromagnetic radiation through a coin (1) to be validated and a receiver coil (3) for receiving radiation having passed through the coin. An...
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WO/1992/015075A1 |
A coin validator is provided in the region of its entrance hopper with a flap (8) which is caused to pivot against the action of a spring (10) when a coin (2) is inserted in the hopper. In the case of fraudulent use of the coin validator...
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WO/1992/010816A1 |
A coin validator checks the measured properties of a tested item against stored ranges to determine whether the tested item is acceptable. Individual sets of ranges can be enabled and disabled, and switched between narrow and wide ranges...
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