Patents by Inventor Keiju Nakagawa

Keiju Nakagawa 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).

  • Patent number: 8668068
    Abstract: The coin handling apparatus configured to handle the first coin of the first nation and the second coin of the second nation includes a recognition unit 48 configured to recognize a coin and detects a feature amount of the recognized coin. The recognition unit 48 is configured to regard the recognized coin as the first coin when the feature amount of the detected coin conforms to feature amount information including a feature amount of the first coin and a feature amount of the second coin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Glory Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiju Nakagawa, Minoru Higashiyama, Hideki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20130037376
    Abstract: The coin handling apparatus configured to handle the first coin of the first nation and the second coin of the second nation includes a recognition unit 48 configured to recognize a coin and detects a feature amount of the recognized coin. The recognition unit 48 is configured to regard the recognized coin as the first coin when the feature amount of the detected coin conforms to feature amount information including a feature amount of the first coin and a feature amount of the second coin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Inventors: Keiju NAKAGAWA, Minoru HIGASHIYAMA, Hideki TAKAHASHI
  • 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: 20120251248
    Abstract: To provide a money handling system capable of improving operability and suppressing occurrence of trouble such as a jam. A money handling system 1 in an embodiment of the present invention includes: a POS register 12 having a display unit; a pneumatic tube 30 configured to transport a storing member 40 for the pneumatic tube; a status notifying unit 31 configured to notify a status of the pneumatic tube 30, and a control unit 11 configured to cause the display unit of the POS register 12 to display the status of the pneumatic tube 30 notified from the status notifying unit 31.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Inventors: Kenichi TAGASHIRA, Minoru Higashiyama, Keiju Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20110011778
    Abstract: A banknote storing cassette (30) includes: a banknote inlet (38a) provided to a cassette casing; one or more first banknote storing units (34, 36), at least one of the first banknote storing units storing therein genuine banknotes; and a second banknote storing unit (32) provided for storing therein counterfeit banknotes or suspicious banknotes about the authentication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Inventors: Norishige Inoue, Kazuhiko Takahashi, Keiju Nakagawa