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US 6,644,456 B2Granted
Electronic coin checker
AssigneeWalter Hanke Mechanische Werstätten GmbH & Co. KG
InventorDietmar Trenner
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Abstract
An electronic coin checker is proposed which has a coin entry channel, in the region of which a sensor arrangement is disposed, and has a flap-shaped coin switch and a control device. In dependence on the signals of the sensor arrangement, the control device controls the coin switch to accept a coin running through the coin entry channel into an acceptance shaft, or into a return channel to return the coin. The flap-shaped coin switch has a sloping extension inclined towards the runway of the return channel, on which the coin slides away in the return position of the switch, alters its inclination and falls onto the runway of the return channel. The boundary wall, lying opposite the coin switch, of the return channel is configured inclined in the running direction, and thus a further alteration in inclination takes place.
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An electronic coin checker, comprising:
- a coin entry channel operable to receive a coin;
- a flap-shaped coin switch positioned at an end of the coin entry channel;
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- a control device for the flap-shaped coin switch, the control device controlling the coin switch to receive a coin running through the coin entry channel and to direct the coin into one of an acceptance channel accepting the coin and a return channel rejecting the coin in response to signals generated in the coin entry channel, the signals responsive to the coin, wherein the flap-shaped coin switch has a sloping extension inclined towards a runway of the return channel such that when the flap-shaped coin switch is in a return position, the coin slides down the sloping extension, altering an angle of inclination of the coin with respect to a direction of travel of the coin and the coin falls onto the runway of the return channel, and wherein a boundary wall of the return channel opposite the flap-shaped coin switch is configured so that a further alteration in the angle of inclination of the coin takes place.
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An electronic coin checker, comprising:
- a coin entry channel operable to receive a coin;
- a flap-shaped coin switch positioned at an end of the coin entry channel;
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- a control device for the flap-shaped coin switch, the control device controlling the coin switch to receive a coin running through the coin entry channel and to direct the coin into one of an acceptance channel accepting the coin and a return channel rejecting the coin in response to signals generated in the coin entry channel, the signals responsive to the coin, wherein the flap-shaped coin switch has a sloping extension inclined towards a runway of the return channel such that when the flap-shaped coin switch is in a return position, the coin slides down the sloping extension, altering an angle of inclination of the coin with respect to a direction of travel of the coin and the coin falls onto the runway of the return channel, and wherein a boundary wall of the return channel opposite the flap-shaped coin switch is configured so that a further alteration in the angle of inclination of the coin takes place, and wherein the coin entry channel is a component of a pivotable flap, a swivel axis of the flap lying above the coin entry channel, and the flap is fixed by means of a spring, the resilience of which permits the flap to be raised, producing a gap for removing blockages, and wherein the spring is configured as a long stretched-out spring wire fixed in an interlocking manner at its one end against twisting and traction and pressure, the other end of which can be brought into engagement in an interlocking manner with an extension on the flap, the engagement able to be detached by bending the spring perpendicular to its longitudinal axis.
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An electronic coin checker, comprising:
- a coin entry channel operable to receive a coin and to generate signals responsive to the coin;
- a flap-shaped coin switch positioned at an end of the coin entry channel, the flap-shaped coin switch switchable between a first position and a second position;
- a control device for switching the flap-shaped coin switch, the control device controlling the coin switch to direct the coin into one of an acceptance channel accepting the coin and a return channel rejecting the coin, the control device operable to control the coin switch in response to the signals;
- a first runway of the return channel positioned to receive the coin if the coin reaches the flap-shaped coin switch and the flap-shaped coin switch is in the first position;
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- a second runway positioned to receive the coin if the coin jams in the coin entry channel, at least apart of the second runway in parallel with the first runway.
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An electronic coin checker, comprising;
- a coin entry channel operable to receive a coin and to generate signals responsive to the coin;
- a flap-shaped coin switch positioned at an end of the coin entry channel, the flap-shaped coin switch switchable between a first position and a second position;
- a control device for switching the flap-shaped coin switch, the control device controlling the coin switch to direct the cot into one of an acceptance channel accepting the coin and a return channel rejecting the coin, the control device operable to control the coin switch in response to the signals;
- a first runway of the return channel positioned to receive the coin if the coin reaches the flap-shaped coin switch and the flap-shaped coin switch is in the first position, the first runway comprising a plurality of runny segments wherein a first runway segment of the plurality of runway segments is adjacent the flap-shaped coin switch and has boundary walls at an angle to boundary walls of an adjacent runway segment of the plurality of runway segments;
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- a coin slot of the coin entry channel one of above the coin entry channel and to a first side of the coin entry channel, the return channel exiting below the first side of the coin entry channel, wherein a coin inserted in the coin slot proceeds through the coin entry channel in a first direction of travel, the coin changing to a second direction of travel as the first runway receives the coin from the flap-shaped coin switch;
- and wherein a depth of the coin checker is greater than a height of the coin checker.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.