Patents Assigned to Glory Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20240029496
    Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus has: a processing unit having, at a front side of a housing, openings through which at least one of feeding a sheet in the housing or feeding the sheet out from the housing is performed; a storage chamber configured to store the sheet fed in the housing, and a door disposed at an opening part of the storage chamber is capable of being locked; a control unit configured to control transport of the sheet between a container, the openings and the storage chamber, the container configured to be capable of being detachably mounted to the processing unit or the storage chamber and configured to be stored the sheet fed in the sheet processing apparatus; and an attachment unit provided at the back side of the processing unit or on the back side of an outer surface of the storage chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: GLORY LTD.
    Inventors: Koki FUKUDA, Kisho YANASE, Masashi KUWADA
  • Publication number: 20240029497
    Abstract: A multifeed detection device according to the present disclosure includes: a light source configured to irradiate a sheet with light; a light receiver configured to receive transmission light transmitted through a sheet and reflection light reflected by a sheet; and a controller configured to acquire, from the light receiver, transmission output data that is output data of the transmission light and reflection output data that is output data of the reflection light, the controller being configured to determine whether or not a multifeed of sheets has occurred based on the transmission output data and the reflection output data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Glory Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiko BANJOYA, Ryo IKEMOTO
  • Patent number: 11875625
    Abstract: A money processing system includes: a money processing machine including a processing machine communication section and a processing machine controller; a first terminal including a first reception section, a first communication section, and a first controller; and a second terminal including a second reception section, a second communication section, and a second controller. The first terminal is a mobile communication terminal. The processing machine communication section transmits state information indicating a state of the money processing machine. In a case where the first reception section receives a consent operation to handle an error in the money processing machine, the first communication section transmits consent information. The error in the money processing machine is indicated by the state information. The second controller causes the second communication section to receive the consent information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: GLORY LTD.
    Inventors: Wataru Ihara, Heisuke Ohno, Kazuya Nishino, Kento Ueda
  • Patent number: 11869318
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a medium processing apparatus, including: a housing provided with a surface facing a customer operating the medium processing apparatus; and a rolled coin device housed in the housing and configured to process rolled coins formed by bundling a plurality of loose coins. The surface of the housing includes a designated area located in a height range conforming to Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) standard with respect to a height direction of the medium processing apparatus, and a rolled coin dispensing port of the rolled coin device for dispensing the rolled coins is arranged in the designated area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Glory Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Tougo, Kazuhiko Takahashi, Kenta Takahashi, Takayuki Kuroda, Tomohiro Yokoo
  • Patent number: 11861964
    Abstract: Operability of a valuable medium handling system is enhanced. A valuable medium handling system 1 includes a communication device 3001 disposed at a storage cassette 31 that is detachably attached to a medium handling device 2 and that stores banknotes, and a controller 513 and a computer 5 that communicate with the communication device 3001 via a communication line 9. The controller 513 and the computer 5 each perform a predetermined process by communicating with the communication device 3001 via the communication line 9.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: GLORY LTD.
    Inventors: Yusaku Tachibana, Tsuyoshi Izumida
  • Publication number: 20230419765
    Abstract: In a money handling method, when a predetermined condition is satisfied, a notification is sent that prompts to unload a second money storage from a second handling device and load the second money storage into a first handling device, and the first handling device is caused to transfer money between the second money storage loaded to the first handling device and the first money storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: Glory Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi IZUMIDA
  • Patent number: 11854330
    Abstract: Provided is a coin handling apparatus including: a storage unit; a drawer attachment unit to which a drawer is attached; a cassette attachment unit to which a coin transport cassette including an opening to be opened when the coin transport cassette is attached to a specific apparatus and giving or receiving a coin to or from the specific apparatus via the opening is attached; a first route forming portion forming a first route that guides the coin fed out of the storage unit to the drawer attached to the drawer attachment unit; a second route forming portion forming a second route that guides the coin fed out of the storage unit to the coin transport cassette attached to the cassette attachment unit; and a switching unit that switches a guide destination of the coin fed out of the storage unit to the first route or the second route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: GLORY LTD.
    Inventors: Fumio Kibihara, Kazuma Sugahara
  • Patent number: 11851299
    Abstract: A sheet storage device includes a tape reel, a drum around which a sheet is wound together with a tape drawn out of the tape reel, and a first motor configured to drive at least the tape reel. The drum is provided such that a first rotation axis of the drum is parallel with a second rotation axis of the tape reel, and the tape reel and the first motor are arranged to at least partially overlap with each other as viewed along the second rotation axis of the tape reel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: GLORY LTD.
    Inventor: Takeshi Yokawa
  • Patent number: 11854331
    Abstract: A banknote management system includes a first banknote processing apparatus including a first serial number reading apparatus configured to read a serial number of a banknote, and a first disinfection apparatus configured to disinfect the banknote; a recording apparatus; and processing circuitry configured to receive the serial number of the banknote read by the first serial number reading apparatus and first disinfection information, and record the serial number and the first disinfection information in association with each other in the recording apparatus, the first disinfection information being information relating to a state of disinfection of the banknote disinfected by the first disinfection apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: GLORY LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihide Asada, Yasuhiro Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20230394933
    Abstract: A medium processing method includes receiving, by a primary processing machine, a customer's request for medium processing; in a case where the processing is first processing, storing, by the primary processing machine, a medium targeted for the first processing in the primary processing machine, and accordingly completing the first processing; and in a case where the processing is second processing, providing, by the primary processing machine, a customer with information for guiding the customer to a secondary processing machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: Glory Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshihide ASADA
  • Publication number: 20230394903
    Abstract: In order to manage a group of sheets to be distinguished from other sheets, a sheet management device is configured to: generate first block data that includes identification information of a plurality of sheets handled by a first sheet handling apparatus and a first eigenvalue calculated based on first input values including the identification information; generate second block data that includes identification information obtained by handling the plurality of sheets by a second sheet handling apparatus and a second eigenvalue calculated based on second input values including the first eigenvalue and the identification information obtained by the second sheet handling apparatus; and manage the second block data in association with the first block data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: Glory Ltd.
    Inventors: Ken MATSUHASHI, Minoru HIGASHIYAMA, Toshikazu NAGASAKI, Hiromichi OKIZUKA, Heisuke OHNO
  • Patent number: 11837043
    Abstract: A banknote monitoring apparatus includes a reception section that receives information including a serial number from each of a plurality of banknote processing apparatuses processing a banknote with the serial number; and a control section that determines whether a specification of the banknote has been changed based on an identification rate of the serial number obtainable with the information received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: GLORY LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Izumida, Keisuke Nada
  • Patent number: 11823520
    Abstract: A speedy and efficient checkout process at a checkout counter in a store is realized by a deposit machine that receives deposited money from a customer and issues a pre-deposit receipt with which a pre-deposit amount is associated, and a POS register that scans a barcode of a commodity to calculate a checkout amount and reads a pre-deposit receipt to specify a pre-deposit amount. The POS register performs a checkout process for the checkout amount by using the pre-deposit amount, calculates, as change, a difference between the pre-deposit amount and the checkout amount, and causes a change machine to dispense money corresponding to the change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: GLORY LTD.
    Inventor: Naoyuki Nishida
  • Patent number: 11816945
    Abstract: A sheet handling device includes: a first storage; a second storage using a storage method different form that of the first storage; a transporter that transports a sheet; and a controller that controls the transporter to transport the sheet. When the second storage is neither a transport source of the sheet nor a transport destination of the sheet, the controller controls the transporter to transport the sheet at a first speed. When the second storage is at least the transport source of the sheet or the transport destination of the sheet, the controller controls the transporter to transport the sheet at a second speed lower than the first speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: GLORY LTD.
    Inventors: Shinsuke Shibata, Keisuke Nada
  • Patent number: 11810375
    Abstract: A transaction processing system of the present disclosure includes processing circuitry configured to acquire image data of an image displayed on a display apparatus for displaying a content of a transaction; extract, from the image data, a character or graphic displayed on the display apparatus; analyze a content represented by the character or graphic; and generate instruction information, based on the analyzed content, for controlling a money processing apparatus to perform processing relating to the transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: GLORY LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuya Nishino, Yukiya Tanaka, Minoru Higashiyama
  • Patent number: 11810416
    Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus has: a processing unit having, at a front side of a housing, openings through which at least one of feeding a sheet in the housing or feeding the sheet out from the housing is performed; a storage chamber configured to store the sheet fed in the housing, and a door disposed at an opening part of the storage chamber is capable of being locked; a control unit configured to control transport of the sheet between a container, the openings and the storage chamber, the container configured to be capable of being detachably mounted to the processing unit or the storage chamber and configured to be stored the sheet fed in the sheet processing apparatus; and an attachment unit provided at the back side of the processing unit or on the back side of an outer surface of the storage chamber, the attachment unit to which the container is capable of being mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: GLORY LTD.
    Inventors: Koki Fukuda, Kisho Yanase, Masashi Kuwada
  • Patent number: 11795023
    Abstract: A sheet storage device includes a first reel, a second reel, a third reel, a shaft, a drum, a first differential mechanism and a second differential mechanism. Tips first, second and third tapes respectively unwound from the first reel, the second reel, and the third reel are fixed to the drum, and the drum winds up sheets together with the first, second and third tapes. The first differential mechanism distributes torque input from a torque source to a first path and a second path. The second differential mechanism is provided in the second path and distributes the torque that has been distributed by the first differential mechanism to a third path and a fourth path. The first reel is located in the first path, the second reel is located in the third path, and the third reel is located in the fourth path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: GLORY LTD.
    Inventors: Robert Brugger, Reto Moser, Kei Isshiki, Takuro Hamada
  • Publication number: 20230334932
    Abstract: In order for various styles of selling items in stores, an item take-out apparatus from which a user takes out an item is provides with: a storage unit that stores items therein; a plurality of take-out ports through which the user takes out an item from inside the item take-out apparatus; and a transport unit configured to extract an item from the storage unit and transport the item to any of the plurality of take-out ports. The transport unit transports an item designated by the user to a take-out port, through which the user takes out the item, among the plurality of take-out ports.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: Glory Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriyuki NAKAGAMI, Osamu ITO, Andreas STEINLIN
  • Patent number: 11790721
    Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes a first storage and a second storage that each stores a sheet; a transport that transports the sheet; a recognition circuit that performs a first recognition processing to recognize the sheet; an outlet that discharges the sheet in a case that the sheet is recognized as normal in the first recognition processing; a temporary storage that stores the sheet in a case that the sheet is recognized as abnormal in the first recognition processing; and processing circuitry that controls the transport and the recognition circuit such that storage control processing is performed, the storage control processing being processing in which the sheet stored in the temporary storage is transported to the first storage unit or to the second storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: GLORY LTD.
    Inventor: Wataru Ihara
  • Publication number: 20230326281
    Abstract: A valuable-medium monitoring system of the present disclosure includes terminal devices and a server, the terminal devices each including a controller that extracts information on a valuable medium and determines whether or not the valuable medium is a circulation-unsuitable medium based on the extracted information on the valuable medium; and a transmitter that, in response to a determination that the valuable medium is a circulation-unsuitable medium, transmits information on the circulation-unsuitable medium to the server, the server including: a memory that stores pieces of information on circulation-unsuitable media, the pieces of information being grouped into groups; and a transmitter that, in response to transmission of information on a circulation-unsuitable medium from one of the terminal devices, transmits a specific group of information on a circulation-unsuitable medium to which the circulation-unsuitable medium corresponds to any other terminal devices satisfying a predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: Glory Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshimitsu KOZUKI, Ken MATSUHASHI, Daisuke YOSHIKAWA, Nobuo TSURUMA