Patents Assigned to Atoll Technology
  • Patent number: 6670891
    Abstract: A magnetic detector of the passing of at least one vehicle wheel, a sensor of which is intended for being positioned on or in a roadway, and includes a conductive winding of at least one spiral and a ferrite structure inscribed in an elongated surface area, the conductive element being wound around a portion of the ferrite structure, parallel to its greater dimension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Assignee: Atoll Technology
    Inventors: Michel Jamet, Patrice Lefevre
  • Patent number: 5285883
    Abstract: Coins corresponding to a payment, thrown into a hopper, fall on a recessed disk and each lodge in one of the recesses. If two coins are superposed in one recess, the upper coin is deflected outwardly by a slot and then raised by the inclined bottom of this slot to finally be ejected from the recess. The coins are then, as a function of the result of a detection, oriented toward one or the other of two compartments of an annular display which surrounds the separation disk. At the end of each payment, the annular display turns a fraction of a turn to bring the two compartments into a presentation position, while two empty compartments are presented to receive the following payment, and the coins corresponding to the preceding payment arrive at a transmission position for example toward collection boxes. The drive of the movable portion of the display is effected by its radially outer edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 15, 1994
    Assignee: Atoll Technology
    Inventors: Son Le Hong, Claude Rigolet
  • Patent number: 5238446
    Abstract: Coins corresponding to a payment, thrown into a hopper, fall on a recessed disk and each lodge in one of the recesses. If two coins are superposed in one recess, the upper coin is deflected outwardly by a slot and then raised by the inclined bottom of this slot to finally be ejected from the recess. The coins are then, as a function of the result of a detection, oriented toward one or the other of two compartments of an annular display which surrounds the separation disk. At the end of each payment, the annular display turns a fraction of a turn to bring the two compartments into a presentation position, while two empty compartments are presented to receive the following payment, and the coins corresponding to the preceding payment arrive at a transmission position for example toward collection boxes. The drive of the movable portion of the display is effected by its radially outer edge. The central portion comprising the separator disk and its drive motor can swing downwardly to eject foreign bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1993
    Assignee: Atoll Technology
    Inventors: Son le Hong, Claude Rigolet
  • Patent number: 5232399
    Abstract: Coins corresponding to a payment, thrown into a hopper, fall on a recessed disk and each lodge in one of the recesses. If two coins are superposed in one recess, the upper coin is deflected outwardly by a slot and then raised by the inclined bottom of this slot to finally be ejected from the recess. The coins are then, as a function of the result of a detection, oriented toward one or the other of two compartments of an annular display which surrounds the separation disk. At the end of each payment, the annular display turns a fraction of a turn to bring the two compartments into a presentation position, while two empty compartments are presented to receive the following payment, and the coins corresponding to the preceding payment arrive at a transmission position for example toward collection boxes. The drive of the movable portion of the display is effected by its radially outer edge. The central portion comprising the separator disk and its drive motor can swing downwardly to eject foreign bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1993
    Assignee: Atoll Technology
    Inventors: Son Le Hong, Claude Rigolet