Patents by Inventor Kazuhiro Doi

Kazuhiro Doi has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20140224616
    Abstract: The money handling apparatus of the present invention includes: a control unit configured to calculate a total amount of money having been put into an inlet by a customer so as to be taken into an apparatus body; and a medium outlet configured to dispense a medium outside the apparatus body, the medium storing or recording information enabling a value corresponding to the total amount of money having been calculated by the control unit to be specified. Based on a dispensing instruction given to the control unit, the money stored in storing units is dispensed, as much as needed, outside the apparatus body from an outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2012
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: GLORY LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Doi, Masatsugu Yokotani, Keishi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8783436
    Abstract: A recognition machine 40, 90 connected to a pneumatic tube 14 is provided separately from a money change machine 20, 70. The recognition machine 40, 90 includes a recognition unit 46, 96 configured to recognize a paper sheet or a coin having been put thereinto, and a storing mechanism 48, 98 configured to store the paper sheet or the coin having been recognized by the recognition unit 46, 96, into a storing member for pneumatic tube 16 to be transported by a pneumatic tube 14. A control unit 60, 100 is configured to calculate a deposit amount of the paper sheet or the coin, by adding up information relating to the paper sheet or the coin stored in the money change machine 20, 70 and information relating to a paper-sheet recognition result or coin recognition result by the recognition unit 46, 96 of the recognition machine 40, 90.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Glory Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Doi, Minoru Higashiyama, Kenichi Tagashira, Keiju Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20140124573
    Abstract: There is provided a cash handling system capable of reliably storing sales proceeds and the like stored in a cash settlement apparatus into a cash accounting apparatus. A cash management system 1 includes a cash settlement apparatus 11, a cash accounting apparatus 21 and the cash transport cassette 30. The cash settlement apparatus 11 and the cash accounting apparatus 21 have reading units 157, 257, respectively, which are configured to read out cassette ID information from a memory unit 35 of the cash transport cassette 30.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: GLORY LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro DOI, Minoru Higashiyama, Keiju Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20140110219
    Abstract: A settlement system includes a register having a reception unit that receives a manual input of information corresponding to at least a part of deposited money from a customer and a transmission unit that transmits a sum amount of money corresponding to the purchased product and manually input information manually input through the reception unit to a cash settlement device and the cash settlement device that calculates an amount of inserted money by recognizing and counting the inserted money, calculates a total amount of the money deposited from the customer by using the amount of the inserted money and the manually input information received from the register, calculates an amount of change based on the total amount of money and the sum amount of money received from the register, and dispenses change money.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: GLORY LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru Higashiyama, Kazuhiro Doi, Kenichi Tagashira, Keiju Nakagawa, Takayuki Kishibuchi, Masatsugu Yokotani
  • Publication number: 20140083814
    Abstract: A banknote handling apparatus 11 in an embodiment according to the present invention includes: a depositing unit 110 configured to put a banknote thereinto; a storing unit 150 configured to store a banknote; a transport unit 130 configured to transport a banknote from the depositing unit to the storing unit; and a position correcting unit 115 configured to correct a position of a banknote having been put into the depositing unit such that both side edges of the banknote conform to a transport direction of the transport unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2012
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: GLORY LTD.
    Inventors: Eiichi Nomura, Masayuki Akagi, Kazuhiro Doi, Kenichi Tagashira, Minoru Higashiyama, Keiju Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20140080395
    Abstract: In a coin depositing and dispensing machine 10, a plurality of storing and feeding apparatuses 50 disposed below a deposited-coin transport unit 20 are arranged vertically on plural levels. A transport direction in which a coin is transported by the deposited-coin transport unit and a feeding direction in which a coin is fed out from each storing and feeding unit are substantially perpendicular to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2012
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: GLORY LTD.
    Inventors: Masato Takeuchi, Shuji Onishi, Minoru Higashiyama, Masatsugu Yokotani, Kazuhiro Doi, Keiju Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20140060997
    Abstract: A cash handling system includes: a cash settlement apparatus 11 configured to perform a settlement process with respect to a customer, by depositing and dispensing cash; a cash accounting apparatus 21 configured to dispense cash to be loaded to the cash settlement apparatus and configured to deposit cash having been collected from the cash settlement apparatus; and a cash transport cassette 30 attachable to and detachable from the cash settlement apparatus and the cash accounting apparatus, the cash transport cassette configured to pass cash to and from the cash settlement apparatus or the cash accounting apparatus when the cash transport cassette is attached to the cash settlement apparatus or the cash accounting apparatus, and configured to store cash such that the cash therein is incapable of being taken out when the cash transport cassette is detached from the cash settlement apparatus and the cash accounting apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: GLORY LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Doi, Minoru Higashiyama, Masatsugu Yokotani
  • Patent number: 8567585
    Abstract: A money handling apparatus (10, 60) includes a collecting and storing unit (20, 71, 72) provided in a housing (10a, 60a), the collecting and storing unit (20, 71, 72) being configured to store money transported by a transport unit (15, 65). A memory unit (37, 87) is configured to store an amount-of-money data which is a money amount of money stored in the collecting and storing unit (20, 71, 72), and a limit sum which is a money amount of money that can be stored in the collecting and storing unit (20, 71, 72). Based on the amount-of-money data and the limit sum respectively stored in the memory unit (37, 87), the control unit (30, 80) performs a control such that the amount-of-money data does not exceed the limit sum, when there is performed a money collecting process in which money in the collecting and storing unit (20, 71, 72) is taken out from the housing (10a, 60a) of the money handling apparatus (10, 60).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Glory Ltd.
    Inventors: Masao Okamura, Kazuhiro Doi
  • Patent number: 8540068
    Abstract: In a control unit (50), a predetermined amount of money of fund money that is the money to be dispensed as the change or the like (i.e., predetermined denominations and the number for each denomination or predetermined total amount of the fund money) is set in advance. The control unit (50) controls an insertion unit (12), a transport unit (16), a storing unit (22) and an escrow unit (20), so as to automatically perform a dispensing process for feeding the money corresponding to the predetermined amount of the fund money from the storing unit (22) to a dispensing unit (14), after the control unit (50) serves to perform a depositing process for taking the money into a casing (10) from the exterior thereof via the insertion unit (12), and then feeding the money taken in the casing (10) to the escrow unit (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Glory Ltd.
    Inventors: Tasuku Nakamoto, Kazuhiro Doi, Yasuhiro Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 8534539
    Abstract: Provided is a valuable medium processing system capable of improving the work efficiency of a person in charge when continuously storing a quantity of valuable media collected from a plurality of valuable medium transaction machines into a storage unit. The valuable medium processing system comprises: a valuable medium processing machine for performing a count process on a predetermined kind of valuable media from among the valuable media collected from the valuable medium transaction machines; and a control machine for storing and managing the quantity of valuable media collected from the valuable medium transaction machines on a per valuable medium transaction machine basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Glory Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Doi, Koichi Nishida
  • Patent number: 8369986
    Abstract: A paper sheet handling apparatus 1 includes: a casing which includes a first face and a second face opposed to the first face; a receiving unit 211 which receives paper sheets; a recognition unit 212 which performs at least one of a counting process and a recognition process with respect to the paper sheets; at least two stacking units 31-34 which stack the paper sheets after processing in the recognition unit 212; a transport unit 4 for transporting the paper sheets among the receiving unit 211, the recognition unit 212 and the stacking units 31-34; and a controller which controls each of the units, thereby having each of the paper sheets selectively stacked in the stacking units 31-34. Each of the stacking units 31-34 has at least two paper sheet removal openings 3L, 3R which are open in the first face and the second face. The paper sheets in the stacking units 31-34 are allowed to be removed through the paper sheet removal openings 3L, 3R, from the first face side and the second face side of the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Glory Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Doi
  • Publication number: 20130024304
    Abstract: To provide a settlement system capable of being switched between a cash desk payment style and a pay station payment style at a given timing in the same store. The present invention is a settlement system including a cash settlement apparatus and a cash register, wherein a layout is capable of being switched between a cash desk payment style in which the cash settlement apparatus is incorporated in a cash register lane, and a pay station payment style in which the cash settlement apparatus is separated from the cash register lane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2012
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Inventors: Kazuhiro DOI, Minoru Higashiyama, Masatsugu Yokotani, Keiju Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20130015036
    Abstract: A recognition machine 40, 90 connected to a pneumatic tube 14 is provided separately from a money change machine 20, 70. The recognition machine 40, 90 includes a recognition unit 46, 96 configured to recognize a paper sheet or a coin having been put thereinto, and a storing mechanism 48, 98 configured to store the paper sheet or the coin having been recognized by the recognition unit 46, 96, into a storing member for pneumatic tube 16 to be transported by a pneumatic tube 14. A control unit 60, 100 is configured to calculate a deposit amount of the paper sheet or the coin, by adding up information relating to the paper sheet or the coin stored in the money change machine 20, 70 and information relating to a paper-sheet recognition result or coin recognition result by the recognition unit 46, 96 of the recognition machine 40, 90.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Doi, Minoru Higashiyama, Kenichi Tagashira, Keiju Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20130001041
    Abstract: A banknote handling apparatus 20 configured to handle a banknote includes a control unit 70. The control unit 70 is configured to output information relating a coin change fund, when a banknote change fund is made in the banknote handling apparatus 20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Inventors: Kazuhiro DOI, Minoru Higashiyama, Keiju Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20120287157
    Abstract: A money handling apparatus that handles money includes an inlet for taking in money; a money storing unit that stores therein the money; an outlet for dispensing the money; a money transport unit that transports the money between the inlet and the outlet, and the money storing unit; a money recognition unit that is provided to the transport unit and recognizes the money; a check receiving port for receiving a check; a scanner that scans the check to acquire a check image; a check transport unit that transports the check between the check receiving port and the scanner; a check recognition unit that recognizes check information that includes at least a check amount from the check image acquired by the scanner; and a control unit that dispenses money equivalent to an amount of difference between a transaction amount acquired from outside the money handling apparatus and a sum of the check amount and an amount of the deposited money.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Doi
  • Publication number: 20120252600
    Abstract: An iron golf club head includes: a head portion; and a badge portion adhered to the head portion. The head portion includes: a face surface; and a back surface located behind the face surface. The badge portion is adhered to at least one of a first largest amplitude region where an amplitude in a fourth-order vibration mode of the back surface is the largest and a second largest amplitude region where an amplitude in a fifth-order vibration mode of the back surface is the largest. As a result, there can be obtained an iron golf club head and an iron golf club, in which by suppressing decrease in resonant time of the hitting sound and reducing the sound pressure of the hitting sound, the hitting sound and the hitting feeling can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: Mizuno Corporation
    Inventors: Kei Tsuji, Yukihiro Teranishi, Naoya Joichi, Yasuyuki Ohta, Noriyuki Tabuchi, Kazuhiro Doi
  • Patent number: 8256624
    Abstract: A money handling apparatus includes a storage and feed unit that stores or feeds moneys, a transport unit that transports the moneys to the storage and feed unit or to outside of the apparatus, a deposit reject port that ejects a deposit reject money recognized as an improper money at the time of deposit processing so that it can be taken out from outside of the apparatus, and a transport control unit that controls the transport unit so that the moneys fed out by the storage and feed unit at the time of dispensing processing to the deposit reject port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Glory Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Doi, Kenichi Tagashira
  • Publication number: 20120181327
    Abstract: Provided is a valuable medium processing system capable of improving the work efficiency of a person in charge when continuously storing a quantity of valuable media collected from a plurality of valuable medium transaction machines into a storage unit. The valuable medium processing system comprises: a valuable medium processing machine for performing a count process on a predetermined kind of valuable media from among the valuable media collected from the valuable medium transaction machines; and a control machine for storing and managing the quantity of valuable media collected from the valuable medium transaction machines on a per valuable medium transaction machine basis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Doi, Koichi Nishida
  • Publication number: 20120173352
    Abstract: Currency handling apparatus comprising: accommodating unit for accommodating various kinds of currencies; a currency discharge opening; a transfer unit for transferring the currencies from the accommodating units to the currency discharge opening; a control unit for controlling the transfer unit to transfer the currencies from the accommodating units to the currency discharge opening thereby to discharge the currencies; and a storage unit for storing various kinds of discharge patterns indicating the numbers of currencies of individual kinds. The control unit is constituted to specify at least one of the discharge patterns in response to the instruction of a user and to discharge the currencies in accordance with the specified discharge pattern. As a result, the user can discharge the desired numbers of currencies of individual kinds merely by performing the simple designating operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2009
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Doi, Tasuku Nakamoto
  • Patent number: D682962
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Mizuno USA, Inc.
    Inventors: David Llewellyn, Mamoru Saraie, Kazuhiro Doi