Patents Assigned to Glory Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20230177479
    Abstract: A transaction system executing transaction processing with a customer by cooperation of a first terminal disposed in a sales office of a financial institution and a second terminal disposed in a location different from the sales office transmits data related to a transaction from the first terminal to the second terminal by communication, and the system includes a providing circuitry that provides a time stamp to at least part of the data related to the transaction transmitted from the first terminal before the second terminal starts transaction processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: Glory Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi YAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11656183
    Abstract: A light detection sensor includes a light source that irradiates a detection target with light, a rod lens that collects emitted light from the detection target, a first light receiving element that detects the emitted light that has passed through the rod lens, and a second light receiving element that detects the emitted light that has passed through the rod lens, at a position different from a position at which the first light receiving element detects the light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: GLORY LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Sato, Hiroshi Konishi, Yuuichirou Okui
  • Publication number: 20230124110
    Abstract: A banknote handling system includes a controller that performs a matching process of matching of a second code of a banknote to be subjected to matching read by a recognition circuit with a first code stored in a memory, and the controller determines that the first code matches with the second code if all symbols of specific digits of the first code match with those of the second code and if the number of digits for which symbols mismatch other than the specific digits is a predetermined number or less, and determines that the first code mismatches with the second code if symbols of the specific digits of the first code mismatch with those of the second code or if the number of digits for which symbols mismatch other than the specific digits exceed the predetermined number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: Glory Ltd.
    Inventors: Keisuke NADA, Kazuhiko ORIBE, Yoshikatsu MIZUSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20230121937
    Abstract: A sheet handling apparatus configured to feed sheets from outside into the sheet handling apparatus, transport the fed sheets in a storage area which is outside of a storage bag in the sheet handling apparatus and store the transported sheets in the storage bag includes: a holder configured to be capable of detachably holding the storage bag; a pushing member configured to push a plurality of sheets transported in the storage area into the storage bag through the opening of the storage bag; and a pressing member configured to press the sheets stored in the storage bag held by the holder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: Glory Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuji SHIMODAIRA
  • Patent number: 11629021
    Abstract: A sheet transport apparatus includes a first direction changing roller arranged along a transport path, wherein a sheet is transported along the transport path; a second direction changing roller disposed on the transport path, wherein the first direction changing roller and the second direction changing roller are next to each other in a direction perpendicular to the transport path, and the first direction changing roller and the second direction changing roller change an orientation of the sheet from a first orientation to a second orientation; and a control circuit configured to control one of the first direction changing roller and the second direction changing roller so that the first direction changing roller rotates slower than the second direction changing roller so as to change the orientation of the sheet from the first orientation to the second orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: GLORY LTD.
    Inventor: Kojiro Itotani
  • Publication number: 20230093434
    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: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: Glory Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Tougo, Kazuhiko Takahashi, Kenta Takahashi, Takayuki Kuroda, Tomohiro Yokoo
  • Publication number: 20230077663
    Abstract: The sheet storage apparatus of the present disclosure includes an attachment unit to which a storing bag for sheets is attached; a holding unit that holds the sheets toward an inner side in a storage direction of the storing bag attached to the attachment unit, the sheets being stacked and stored in the storing bag; and a closing unit that closes an entrance of the storing bag by sandwiching the storing bag from outside thereof. The closing unit closes the entrance by moving from a first position to a second position, the first position being a position before the closing unit starts sandwiching the storing bag, the second position being a position when the closing unit sandwiches the storing bag. The closing unit passes through the inner side in the storage direction than the first position between moving from the first position to the second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: Glory Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoichi TAKEMURA
  • Publication number: 20230082666
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a sheet storage apparatus and a sheet processing apparatus capable of effectively reducing tension applied to the entrance portion of a storage bag that stores sheets at the time of sealing the storage bag. The sheet storage apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a sealing unit that seals a predetermined portion of the storage bag storing sheets and a tension reducing unit that reduces the tension applied to the predetermined portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: Glory Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetomo YANAGIUCHI, Yoichi TAKEMURA
  • Publication number: 20230074409
    Abstract: A cash depositing system for a user to deposit cash into a user’s account via a store, is provided with: a cash handling apparatus that recognizes and counts cash deposited by the user at the store, and obtains an amount of the cash; and a management server that acquires the amount of the cash and account information of the user, and determines whether or not a fund equivalent to an account deposit amount to be deposited into the user’s account can be obtained from the store to a management company. In case where the management company can obtain the fund from the store, the management server instruct an external device, which performs account handling for moving the fund between an account of the management company and the user’s account, to perform the account handling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: Glory Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuta FUKUNISHI, Toru FUJINO, Kisho YANASE, Minoru HIGASHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230070996
    Abstract: Provided is a cash depositing method for a user to deposit cash into an account of the user via a store. The method includes: causing a management server to receive a request for depositing cash into the account from the user, issue a transaction code for specifying the account, and transmit the transaction code to the terminal device; causing a cash handling apparatus in the store to receive the transaction code, recognize and count cash deposited into the apparatus by the user, and output a deposited amount; and causing the management server to specify the account of the user and an account deposit amount to be deposited into the account and instruct a bank server to perform account handling for transferring the account deposit amount from an account of the management company to the account of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: Glory Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi TAKEMURA, Minoru HIGASHIYAMA, Yuta FUKUNISHI
  • Publication number: 20230039025
    Abstract: A banknote handling system includes: first and second banknote handling apparatuses, each comprising: a hopper configured to receive banknotes, a transport path along which the banknotes received in the hopper are transported, a recognition unit configured to acquire a denomination and a serial number of each banknote transported along the transport path, and a control unit programmed to generate information including the denominations and the serial numbers of the banknotes acquired by the recognition unit; and a determination unit programmed to: receive the information and determine whether or not a total monetary amount of the banknotes processed by the second banknote handling apparatus matches a total monetary amount of the banknotes processed by the first banknote handling apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: GLORY LTD.
    Inventors: Toshio NUMATA, Tetsuya TAMEIKE
  • Patent number: 11565904
    Abstract: A sheet handling apparatus configured to feed sheets from outside into the sheet handling apparatus, transport the fed sheets in a storage area which is outside of a storage bag in the sheet handling apparatus and store the transported sheets in the storage bag includes: a holder configured to be capable of detachably holding the storage bag; a pushing member configured to push a plurality of sheets transported in the storage area into the storage bag through the opening of the storage bag; and a pressing member configured to press the sheets stored in the storage bag held by the holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: GLORY LTD.
    Inventor: Yuji Shimodaira
  • Patent number: 11568700
    Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus in the present invention operates in a self-service mode, in which a user does not receive operation support provided by an operation assistant, and a non-self-service mode, in which the user receives the operation support. The sheet processing apparatus includes an inlet that takes in sheets in a deposit process, a transport section that transports the sheets taken in from the inlet, storage sections that store the sheets transported by the transport section, and a control section that causes the transport section in such a way as to transport the sheets to the storage sections on a basis of storage conditions for storing the sheets in the storage sections. The control section changes the storage conditions for at least one of the storage sections between the self-service mode and the non-self-service mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: GLORY LTD.
    Inventor: Masao Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20230016574
    Abstract: A borrowing handling system includes a cash storage apparatus and a management server. The cash storage apparatus is in a store, and the cash storage apparatus to dispense cash withdrawn by a user from an account of the user. The management server is configured to transmit an instruction for execution of an account handling in which, out of an amount of the cash dispensed from the cash storage apparatus for the user and a commission to be paid to the store: a repayment amount, that the store allots for repayment, is deposited into a repayment account; and a remaining amount is deposited into an account of the store. The management server transmits the instruction to institutions corresponding to the repayment account and the account of the store.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: Glory Ltd.
    Inventors: Minoru HIGASHIYAMA, Yuta FUKUNISHI, Hari Palaparambil SIVAN
  • Publication number: 20230015962
    Abstract: The optical sensor of the present disclosure includes: a light source configured to emit irradiation light to a target; a light receiver configured to receive a first incident light, a second incident light, and a third incident light travelling from the target and having different wavelength bands; and a controller configured to control the light source. The light receiver includes: a first light-receiving element configured to receive the first incident light and the second incident light and not to receive the third incident light; and a second light-receiving element configured to receive the third incident light and to receive neither the first incident light nor the second incident light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: Glory Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki UEYAMA, Takeshi SATO
  • Patent number: 11556933
    Abstract: Circuitry acquires, when predetermined money handling is executed, stored money information including specific information of money stored in a storage before execution of the money handling and money transfer information including specific information of money transferred in execution of the money handling, determines, based on the stored money information and the money transfer information, a presence or absence of an occurrence of an abnormality related to money in the money handling apparatus and generates, in a case that it is determined that there is the presence of the occurrence of the abnormality, fraud data related to the occurrence of the abnormality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: GLORY LTD.
    Inventors: Takakazu Nagai, Yoshirou Oie, Shingo Katahira
  • Publication number: 20230005319
    Abstract: A money handling apparatus (for example, a banknote handling apparatus) includes a destination selector configured to select a storage unit where at least one of a counterfeit money and suspect money among the money transported by the transporting unit is to be transported, from the plurality of storage units (for example, each banknote storage unit, each storage/feeding unit, collecting unit, banknote ejecting unit, and the like) and a controller configured to control the transporting unit to transport at least one of the counterfeit money and suspect money to the storage unit selected by the destination selector among the plurality of storage units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: Glory Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki KURODA, Tomohiro KIMURA, Hisashi ISHITOBI
  • Publication number: 20220417381
    Abstract: Provided is an image sensor lighting unit including at least one light guide extending in a main scanning direction; a first light source group facing a first end surface of at least two end surfaces of the at least one light guide in the main scanning direction; and a second light source group facing a second end surface of the at least two end surfaces. The first light source group includes a first light source that emits light having a predetermined wavelength band. The second light source group includes a second light source that emits light having the wavelength band. An X-coordinate of the first light source in a corresponding XY-coordinate system is equal in absolute value to an X-coordinate of the second light source in a corresponding XY-coordinate system, with the at least one light guide viewed from the first end surface side in the main scanning direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: Glory Ltd.
    Inventors: Takaaki MORIMOTO, Akira BOGAKI, Naoki TOMIGAKI, Yuki KIYOSE
  • Publication number: 20220415110
    Abstract: A money handling method to be executed by a money handling machine including a body and an extension unit. The method includes: instructing the extension unit to replenish the body with money with a specified denomination; replenishing the body from the extension unit in accordance with the instruction; recognizing a denomination of each of the money sent from the extension unit; storing the money in a first storage unit associated with a first denomination in a first case where the denomination recognized is the first denomination identical to the specified denomination; storing money in a second storage unit in a second case where the denomination recognized is a second denomination different from the specified denomination; and continuing the replenishment with the money using the extension unit as instructed in both the first case and the second case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: Glory Ltd.
    Inventors: Risa HORITA, Kouichi NABEYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220405731
    Abstract: A banking device in accordance with the present disclosure includes processing circuitry that is configured to receive user authentication information from a mobile device of a user interacting with the mobile device. The user authentication information may include a token indicating that the user of the mobile device is authenticated. The processing circuitry is further configured to contact, in response to reception of the user authentication information a banking server to initiate a banking transaction; and initiate the banking transaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: Glory Ltd.
    Inventors: Douglas WIELARD, Snehal VASHI, Rodney SMITH, David PAGE, Lisa Marie FOLEY, Russell BRACKETT