Patents by Inventor Tsunehiro Aso
Tsunehiro Aso 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).
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Publication number: 20070007105Abstract: A coin metal processing device and a method of controlling the device, where whether or not a metal-coin is acceptable and value information etc. for the metal-coin can be set, and where both ordinary coins and metal-coins cam be used. A setting portion (5) is operated to shift a coin metal processing device (1) to a metal-coin setting mode, coins with the value equivalent to a set value are dropped in, and the value of coins identified is memorized in a memory (9). A predetermined number of coins are collected at any time by a characteristics data collecting portion (6) and stored in a characteristics data-storing portion (7). A characteristics data analyzing portion (8) analyzes whether or not the characteristics data overlap with characteristics data of each coin and further analyzes whether or not variations of the characteristics data are within a specified value. A control portion (2) sets reception of the metal-coins based on the result of the analysis.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2004Publication date: January 11, 2007Inventors: Eiji Itako, Tsunehiro Aso
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Patent number: 6918826Abstract: A coin treating device, wherein a key cylinder type locking means for limiting the release of the latch of the latch means is disposed in a coin storage unit so that the coin storage unit cannot easily be removed from a device main body other than in some specific cases.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2001Date of Patent: July 19, 2005Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon ConluxInventors: Kenji Nakajima, Yasuyuki Kodama, Takahiro Hayashi, Masato Yagi, Shinichi Kosugi, Takeshi Ishida, Tsunehiro Aso, Kenji Koyama
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Publication number: 20050124280Abstract: A coin dispenser capable of shortening a coin delivery time and extending the operation life of a coin delivery mechanism part by reducing the number of idle striking operations and a control method for the coin dispenser, the method comprising the steps of, based on the counted results of a deliverability counter for counting coins accumulated in coin tubes for each coin tube, detecting, as the idle-struck coin tube, the coin tube in which a coin is newly accumulated when the number of the accumulated coins is less that a specified quantity and, when delivering the coins, performing the idle striking operation for performing a delivery operation in the state of prohibiting the delivery of the coins from the coin tube only when the idle-struck coin tube is detected.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2003Publication date: June 9, 2005Inventors: Eiji Itako, Mitsugu Mikami, Tsunehiro Aso
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Patent number: 6679368Abstract: A money handling method and device capable of automatically stopping the acceptance of old moneys depending on a circulating amount of old and new moneys. In a state that new and old moneys are judged as authentic and accepted by a coin type judgment unit, a switching condition decision unit compares an insertion state of new moneys with a condition stored in a condition value storage unit, and when the insertion state agrees with the stored condition, the coin type judgment unit returns the old moneys as counterfeit.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2001Date of Patent: January 20, 2004Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon ConluxInventors: Takeshi Ishida, Tsunehiro Aso
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Patent number: 6601686Abstract: A vending machine capable of preventing fraudulent use of false coins of a plurality of kinds. The number of slotted coins acceptable in one vending operation is preset in setting unit (112). The coins slotted into a coin slotting unit (101) are counted based on the sensing output from a counting sensor (104). When a refund operation is carried out while the number of coins slotted into the coin slotting unit(101) is equal to or larger than the preset acceptable number of coins set in the setting unit (112), the coin return in response to the refund instruction is inhibited as a fraudulent use.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2001Date of Patent: August 5, 2003Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon ConluxInventors: Takeshi Ishida, Tsunehiro Aso
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Publication number: 20030116401Abstract: A coin handling method and a device which can prevent functions from being degraded by adoption of an escrow mechanism in order to temporarily hold a plurality of inserted coins to provide convenience and to prevent counterfeit coins from being used and also to provide a normal operation even if any coins are temporarily held at the time when the power is turned on. The inserted coins are temporarily held in an escrow passage, the number of temporarily held coins can be determined arbitrarily, and the coins inserted not less than the determined number are returned by an operation of a authentic/counterfeit sorting lever in order to return the inserted coin. And, to collect coins, a return passage lever and a coin box passage lever are operated depending on the states of respective portions so to guide the coins temporarily held in the escrow passage to a coin tube, a return passage or a coin box passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2003Publication date: June 26, 2003Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon ConluxInventors: Takeshi Ishida, Tsunehiro Aso, Kenji Koyama
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Patent number: 6536577Abstract: A coin handling method and a device which can prevent functions from being degraded by adoption of an escrow mechanism in order to temporarily hold a plurality of inserted coins to provide convenience and to prevent counterfeit coins from being used and also to provide a normal operation even if any coins are temporarily held at the time when the power is turned on. The inserted coins are temporarily held in an escrow passage, the number of temporarily held coins can be determined arbitrarily, and the coins inserted not less than the determined number are returned by an operation of a authentic/counterfeit sorting lever in order to return the inserted coin. And, to collect coins, a return passage lever and a coin box passage lever are operated depending on the states of respective portions so to guide the coins temporarily held in the escrow passage to a coin tube, a return passage or a coin box passage.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2001Date of Patent: March 25, 2003Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon ConluxInventors: Takeshi Ishida, Tsunehiro Aso, Kenji Koyama
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Publication number: 20020168931Abstract: A coin treating device, wherein a key cylinder type locking means for limiting the release of the latch of the latch means is disposed in a coin storage unit so that the coin storage unit cannot easily be removed from a device main body other than some specific cases.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2002Publication date: November 14, 2002Inventors: Kenji Nakajmima, Yasuyuki Kodama, Takahiro Hayashi, Masato Yagi, Shinichi Kosugi, Takeshi Ishida, Tsunehiro Aso, Kenji Koyama
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Publication number: 20010023809Abstract: A coin handling method and a device which can prevent functions from being degraded by adoption of an escrow mechanism in order to temporarily hold a plurality of inserted coins to provide convenience and to prevent counterfeit coins from being used and also to provide a normal operation even if any coins are temporarily held at the time when the power is turned on. The inserted coins are temporarily held in an escrow passage, the number of temporarily held coins can be determined arbitrarily, and the coins inserted not less than the determined number are returned by an operation of a authentic/counterfeit sorting lever in order to return the inserted coin. And, to collect coins, a return passage lever and a coin box passage lever are operated depending on the states of respective portions so to guide the coins temporarily held in the escrow passage to a coin tube, a return passage or a coin box passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2001Publication date: September 27, 2001Inventors: Takeshi Ishida, Tsunehiro Aso, Kenji Koyama
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Publication number: 20010013456Abstract: A money handling method and device capable of automatically stopping the acceptance of old moneys depending on a circulating amount of old and new moneys. In a state that new and old moneys are judged as authentic and accepted by a coin type judgment unit, a switching condition decision unit compares an insertion state of new moneys with a condition stored in a condition value storage unit, and when the insertion state agrees with the stored condition, the coin type judgment unit returns the old moneys as counterfeit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2001Publication date: August 16, 2001Inventors: Takeshi Ishida, Tsunehiro Aso
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Patent number: 6247573Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2000Date of Patent: June 19, 2001Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon ConluxInventors: Eiji Itako, Jun Yamada, Genzo Yoshizawa, Kunio Iwakawa, Tsunehiro Aso
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Patent number: 6082518Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 1998Date of Patent: July 4, 2000Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon ConluxInventors: Eiji Itako, Jun Yamada, Genzo Yoshizawa, Kunio Iwakawa, Tsunehiro Aso