Abstract: A method and a device for recording data in an optical memory card which facilitate judgment between an unrecorded region and a recorded region in the optical memory card and which prevent double writing. Record pits are formed so that data to be recorded on the optical memory card is recorded in the same way as when recorded in the MFM-RZ modulation system. Data that was recorded in the NRZI-RZ modulation system is reproduced and the modified to record in the MFM-RZ modulation system. This method forms the record pits at least every two recording intervals or less in the recorded region in the optical memory card, making it possible to judge the unrecorded region of the optical memory card from the recorded region according to presence or absence of the record pits and thereby preventing double writing.

Abstract: Around one coin pullout prevention lever, another coin pullout prevention lever with tip position thereof being different from that of the one coin pullout prevention lever is arranged.

Abstract: Coin dispenser, wherein a change slide (31) for controlling the dispensation and non-dispensation of coins is turned when the coins are dispensed, and then stored in a change slide storage hole (4f) formed inside a payout link (4), whereby depthwise length of the coin dispenser is reduced to the smallest possible level.

Abstract: A bill processor having pivotally supported parts for easy maintenance. The bill processor includes a machine body, a bill conveyer disposed in the body for conveying a bill along a bill passage, and a front mask having a bill insertion port and disposed on the front of the body. The bill processor also has a bill identification device disposed on the bill passage for determining the genuineness of the inserted bills, as well as a bill stacker. In one bill processor, the conveyer is supported via a shaft to be freely pivotable toward the front of the machine body, and a front mask is supported to be freely pivotable with respect to the machine body. In another bill processor, a support structure is provided for supporting the machine body including the conveyer and the bill stacker so the machine body is freely pivotably supported with respect to the front mask and freely detachably engaged to the front mask.

Abstract: A method and device for controlling tracking of an optical memory card, which facilitates achieving synchronization together with the detection and correction of track holding mistakes, thus speeding up the operation and preventing overwriting and other problems. Synchronization is achieved, and the detection and correction of track holding mistakes implemented by configuring the guide tracks (2) of the optical memory card with an arrangement of guide track segments (4, 4a, 4b, 4c, 4d), extracting the synchronizing signal from the patterns of the arrangements of the guide tracks as detected by means of photosensors (11, 12), and identifying the data recording tracks (1).

Abstract: A card-dispensing device has a mechanism for forcibly modifying the attitude of the slide during the forward run of the slide from a horizontal attitude in which the slide is pushing a card forward to an attitude which is inclined through a fixed angle, and then forcibly returned to its initial horizontal attitude during the backward run.

Abstract: A coin processing device has a coin storage system including a plurality of coin tubes, linking devices formed on each of the coin tubes that inter-link adjacent coin tubes. The coin tubes are separately formed and detachably inter-linked with one another by the linking devices formed on the coin tubes.

Abstract: The invention provides a money sorting method and unit that can detect such a counterfeit as foreign money for which material, outer diameter and other features are very similar to a genuine coin, and that can decrease damage caused by the continuous trial of entry of counterfeit money. Sensors detect the material of a coin entered from a coin entry section, and at the same time, the outer diameter of the coin is detected by three sensors with a highly accurate method utilizing time ratio, pattern on the surface of the rolling coin is detected by converting output of the sensors to a basic pattern, and genuineness of the entered coin is judged based on these detection results.

Abstract: If the number of returned bills is two or more, the returned bills are identified as abnormally returned bills by an abnormally returned bill detecter, and predetermined abnormal-state processing is accomplished by performing control operations using an abnormality processor. If a bill has jammed in the bill conveying channel, information concerning the direction in which the bill has jammed is stored in the bill jamming direction memory unit of the control unit, and, as a result of control operations performed by the bill reverse-direction conveyance control unit of the control unit, the bill is conveyed in the direction opposite to the bill jamming direction stored in the bill jamming direction memory unit when the bill jammed in the bill conveying channel is to be removed.

Abstract: A card conveyance control method and apparatus that allow a card held by a plurality of conveying rollers to be conveyed and securely mounted at the proper position on a conveying platform. The conveying rollers of the first conveyer unit, which holds and conveys an optical card, are rotated in the conveying direction of the optical card, and the card conveying platform of the second conveyer unit is moved in the direction of the first conveyer unit so as to press the leading edge of the optical card conveyed from the first conveyer unit against the back edge of the conveying platform; the conveying platform of the second conveyer unit is then moved in the opposite direction from the first conveyer unit while the conveying rollers of the first conveyer unit are rotated in the conveying direction of the optical card; and this operation is repeated several times.

Abstract: A card read/write apparatus for reading or writing information from or into an IC memory region of a card comprises a card carriage formed with an IC exposure opening through which the IC memory region of the card is exposed when the card is placed on the card carriage, and a contact device having contact pins that is protruded into or retracted from the IC exposure aperture while being maintained to be in parallel with the IC memory region of the card so as to contact with or move away from the IC memory region of the card which is exposed from the IC exposure aperture.

Abstract: The contact error of a contact section which is brought into contact with an IC card is detected reliably. The level of a reset signal which is supplied to a reset terminal (RST) of an integrated circuit (21) mounted on an IC card (20) through a contact section (11) is controlled to be low and also, the level of a clock signal which is supplied to a clock terminal (CLK) of the integrated circuit through the contact section is controlled to be low. After that, power for the integrated circuit (21) is supplied to a power supply terminal (Vcc) of the integrated circuit (21) through the contact section (11). At that time, the voltage which is outputted from an I/O terminal (I/O) of the integrated circuit (21) through the contact section (11) is compared with a predetermined reference level by a comparator (16). When the voltage is lower than the predetermined reference level, it is judged to be contact error of the contact section.

Abstract: A papers discriminating device which improves the accuracy in true or false judgment of imitation papers which are made by pasting parts of genuine papers on other papers. To a conventional process, a process is added in which the colors and shades of paper detected by a sensor are taken and analyzed by a CPU, the number of peaks of the entire shades and characteristic parts of the paper is examined for truth or falsehood by the CPU on the basis of the number of peaks of the shades, a ratio of peak level difference, and a combination pattern of the peak position and peak level.

Abstract: In a coin processing device in accordance with the first aspect of the present invention, coin storage means (4) comprises a plurality of coin tubes (10, 11, 12, 13) which are separately formed, and linking means (30) which is formed for each one of the coin tubes (10, 11, 12, 13) and inter-links adjacent coin tubes. In a coin processing device in accordance with the second aspect of the present invention, coin storage means (64) comprises integrated type coin tubes (74) where a plurality of coin tubes are integrated into one unit, and adapter tubes (80, 81, 82) which are inserted in each one of the plurality of coin tubes (71, 72, 73) for changing the internal diameters thereof.

Abstract: A hybrid card and a processing device capable of rapidly identifying a read/write unit corresponding to an IC module from a plurality of read/write units and preventing fraud in respect of the IC module. Identification data identifying the type of an IC module 11a is held in for example a magnetic stripe 11b outside the IC module 11a of a hybrid card 11. Authentication data corresponding to the identification data is held in the IC module 11a. An R/W unit adapted to the IC module 11a is selected in accordance with the identification data read from the location outside the IC module 11a. The identification data read from the location outside the IC module 11a and the authentication data contained in the data read from the IC module 11a are compared and, only if the two agree, the reading from or writing into the an IC read/write unit 130 is permitted.

Abstract: A bill processor for use in a bill handling machine comprises a first bill transport passage for guiding a bill inserted in a direction substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of bills stacked in a stacker toward substantially middle of interior of the main body of the bill handling machine, and a second bill transport passage for guiding the bill from the termination end of the first bill transport passage along the longitudinal direction of the stacked bills, wherein the first bill transport passage is formed in a meandering form along the longitudinal direction of the stacked bills, whereby the depth of the bill processor can be made small.

Abstract: A distributed processing unit which permits easy modification of set data that has been written in a memory (19) of a coin mechanism (1) which constitutes a processor without the use of special terminals. When set data settings stored in the memory (19) of the coin mechanism (1) are to be modified, the coin mechanism (1) is disconnected from a signal line (8) from an automatic vending machine controller (2) at a connector (9), and a computer (50) is connected to the connector (9). In this state, the program routine of a CPU (11) in the coin mechanism (1) is modified by special instructions transmitted from the computer (50), thus permitting the contents of the memory (19) of the coin mechanism (1) to be read out by the computer (50) and the set data in the memory (19) to be rewritten by operation of the CPU (11).

Abstract: A distributed processing unit which permits easy modification of set data that has been written in a memory (19) of a coin selector (1-1) which constitutes a processor. A computer (50) is connected to a connection line that connects the memory (19) and a CPU (11) of the coin selector (1-1), and to a mode terminal of the CPU (11), signals applied to the mode terminal of the CPU (11) prohibit access to the memory (19) by the CPU (11) and enable direct access to the memory (19) by the computer (50) so that the set data in the memory (19) can be overwritten under the control of the computer (50).