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).

  • Patent number: 9437065
    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: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: GLORY LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru Higashiyama, Kazuhiro Doi, Kenichi Tagashira, Keiju Nakagawa, Takayuki Kishibuchi, Masatsugu Yokotani
  • Publication number: 20160196708
    Abstract: A method is provided for sorting bank notes using a bank note processing apparatus having an at least one input receptacle, at least one identification unit, and a plurality of stacker units. The method includes receiving the bank notes in the input receptacle or receptacles. The bank notes are identified when passed through or by the identification unit or units. The bank notes are sorted into the plurality of stacker units according to the results of the identification, which includes stacking each of one or more change funds into at least one stacker unit and stacking the remaining bank notes into at least one stacker unit. Each change fund includes a predetermined value and two or more predetermined denominations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Doi, Hirofumi Ozaki, Osamu Ito, Sadaaki Uesaka
  • Publication number: 20160049035
    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: October 29, 2015
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Applicant: GLORY LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro DOI
  • Publication number: 20150379495
    Abstract: A money handling system that performs a process of settling a charge for a specific service includes a charge amount acquiring unit that acquires a charge amount corresponding to the change for the specific service; an amount calculating unit that calculates an amount of the money that has been taken in; and a tip amount identifying unit that identifies a tip amount for the specific service. A main control unit identifies the change amount so that the total of the charge amount acquired by the charge amount acquiring unit, the tip amount identified by the tip amount identifying unit, and the change amount of the money to be dispensed as the change becomes equal to the amount calculated by the amount calculating unit, and exerts control so that the money equivalent to the change amount is dispensed by the banknote dispensing unit and the coin dispensing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Applicant: GLORY LTD.
    Inventors: Keiju NAKAGAWA, Kazuhiro DOI, Minoru HIGASHIYAMA
  • Patent number: 9214049
    Abstract: The complexity of a task is reduced when a user processes a valuable medium, such as sales proceeds, of a plurality of days, on a sales day basis, all at once at a later date. A valuable-medium processing apparatus includes a valuable-medium processing unit that processes a valuable medium, a storage unit that stores therein information on the valuable medium processing, a display unit that displays the information on the valuable medium processing, an input unit for inputting the information on the valuable medium processing, a display control unit that causes the display unit to display information on a no-processing day when the valuable medium was not processed by the valuable-medium processing unit, and a control unit that causes the valuable-medium processing unit to process the valuable medium on a specific no-processing day when the specific no-processing day displayed on the display unit was inputted by using the input unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: GLORY LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Doi, Minoru Higashiyama, Atsushi Morisawa, Koichi Nishida
  • Patent number: 9202326
    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: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: GLORY LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Doi
  • Patent number: 9150365
    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: June 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: GLORY LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Doi, Minoru Higashiyama, Kenichi Tagashira, Keiju Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20150273287
    Abstract: A main body portion including a face and a recess formed on a back side of the face, an intermediate member being arranged in the recess, including a first member and a second member, and having a smaller specific gravity than the main body portion, and a high specific gravity member being arranged on a side opposite to the main body portion when viewed from the intermediate member and having a higher specific gravity than the intermediate member are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Doi, Tsugunobu Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20150243117
    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: May 11, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: GLORY LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru HIGASHIYAMA, Kazuhiro DOI, Kenichi TAGASHIRA, Keiju NAKAGAWA, Takayuki KISHIBUCHI, Masatsugu YOKOTANI
  • Publication number: 20150187157
    Abstract: A money handling apparatus for performing at least depositing includes: a casing; a depositing unit; a recognition unit configured to at least count or recognize money fed from the depositing unit; an inner storage unit from which the money stored therein is unremovable directly from the outside of the casing; an outer stacking unit from which the money stacked therein is removable directly from the outside of the casing; a transport unit configured to transport the money among the above-described units; and a controller configured to allow selective transport of the money handled by the recognition unit to the inner storage unit, or the outer stacking unit. The controller transfers the money to the inner storage unit when a first deposit mode is selected by a selection signal, or transfers the money to the outer stacking unit when a second deposit mode is selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Applicant: GLORY LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro DOI
  • Patent number: 9058709
    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: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: GLORY LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru Higashiyama, Kazuhiro Doi, Kenichi Tagashira, Keiju Nakagawa, Takayuki Kishibuchi, Masatsugu Yokotani
  • Patent number: 9027830
    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: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Glory Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Doi, Minoru Higashiyama, Keiju Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 9004350
    Abstract: A money handling apparatus for performing at least depositing includes: a casing; a depositing unit; a recognition unit configured to at least count or recognize money fed from the depositing unit; an inner storage unit from which the money stored therein is unremovable directly from the outside of the casing; an outer stacking unit from which the money stacked therein is removable directly from the outside of the casing; a transport unit configured to transport the money among the above-described units; and a controller configured to allow selective transport of the money handled by the recognition unit to the inner storage unit, or the outer stacking unit. The controller transfers the money to the inner storage unit when a first deposit mode is selected by a selection signal, or transfers the money to the outer stacking unit when a second deposit mode is selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Glory Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Doi
  • Publication number: 20150072804
    Abstract: In an iron golf club head with a face portion and a neck portion integrally molded by forging, the iron golf club head is made of an iron steel material at least containing 0.30% by weight or less of carbon and 0.0005% by weight to 0.003% by weight of boron. The face portion has been subjected to quenching processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Doi, Jun Yoshikawa
  • Publication number: 20140301793
    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: June 23, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: GLORY LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro DOI, Minoru HIGASHIYAMA, Kenichi TAGASHIRA, Keiju NAKAGAWA
  • Patent number: D720026
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Mizuno USA, Inc.
    Inventors: David Llewellyn, Isamu Toshinari, Kazuhiro Doi
  • Patent number: D720027
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Mizuno USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Chris Voshall, Kazuhiro Doi, Tsugunobu Sakamoto
  • Patent number: D736872
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Mizuno USA, Inc.
    Inventors: David Llewellyn, Kazuhiro Doi, Tsugunobu Sakamoto
  • Patent number: D736873
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Mizuno USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Chris Voshall, Kazuhiro Doi, Tsugunobu Sakamoto
  • Patent number: D736875
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Mizuno USA, Inc.
    Inventors: David Llewellyn, Kazuhiro Doi, Kazuhiko Natori