Coin dispensing apparatus and checkout machine with the same
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYusuke SATO
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Abstract
A coin dispensing apparatus includes a coin dispenser configured to dispense coins to a receiving tray, a sensor configured to detect one or more coins in the receiving tray, an output device, and a processor configured to control the output device to output a warning when the sensor detects no coins in the receiving tray after the processor instructs the coin dispenser to dispense a group of coins as change and the coin dispenser has dispensed at least one of the coins in the group but before the coin dispenser has dispensed all of the coins in the group.
Claims20
A coin dispensing apparatus comprising:
- a coin dispenser configured to dispense coins to a coin receiving region;
- a coin sensor configured to detect one or more coins in the coin receiving region;
- and
- a processor configured to perform a control operation to cause generation of a user notification when the coin sensor detects no coins in the coin receiving region after the processor controls the coin dispenser to dispense a group of coins and the coin dispenser has dispensed at least one of the coins in the group but before the coin dispenser has dispensed all of the coins in the group.
A checkout machine comprising:
- a coin dispenser configured to dispense coins to a coin receiving region;
- a coin sensor configured to detect one or more coins in the coin receiving region;
- a receipt printer;
- and
- a processor configured to:
- perform a control operation to cause generation of a user notification when the coin sensor detects no coins in the coin receiving region after the processor controls the coin dispenser to dispense a group of coins and the coin dispenser has dispensed at least one of the coins in the group but before the coin dispenser has dispensed all of the coins in the group, and
- control the receipt printer to print a receipt.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.