Patents by Inventor Kazuma Sugahara
Kazuma Sugahara 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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Patent number: 11935372Abstract: Provided is a drawer tray provided in a coin handling apparatus storing a coin in a compartment of a drawer. The drawer tray includes: a placement unit where the drawer is placed; and a regulation unit that regulates a placement position of the drawer in the placement unit to a position. The regulation unit regulates the placement position of the drawer to a plurality of positions different from each other by disposition of the regulation unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: GLORY LTD.Inventors: Kazuma Sugahara, Fumio Kibihara
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Publication number: 20240062607Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2023Publication date: February 22, 2024Applicant: Glory Ltd.Inventors: Fumio KIBIHARA, Kazuma SUGAHARA
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Patent number: 11854330Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 19, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: GLORY LTD.Inventors: Fumio Kibihara, Kazuma Sugahara
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Publication number: 20220114867Abstract: Provided is a drawer tray provided in a coin handling apparatus storing a coin in a compartment of a drawer. The drawer tray includes: a placement unit where the drawer is placed; and a regulation unit that regulates a placement position of the drawer in the placement unit to a position. The regulation unit regulates the placement position of the drawer to a plurality of positions different from each other by disposition of the regulation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Applicant: Glory Ltd.Inventors: Kazuma SUGAHARA, Fumio KIBIHARA
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Publication number: 20210295631Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2021Publication date: September 23, 2021Applicant: Glory Ltd.Inventors: Fumio KIBIHARA, Kazuma SUGAHARA
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Patent number: 11113916Abstract: A coin feeding apparatus comprising: a disk that includes a plurality of protrusions on a surface of the disk, is disposed to be inclined and rotatable, and, when rotating, causes a first coin or a second coin to be caught on and carried upward by the plurality of protrusions, the second coin having a diameter greater than that of the first coin; a cover that forms, between the cover and a surface of the disk, a space for storing a coin therein; and a separation unit that separates one coin out of two of the first coins from the plurality of protrusions so as to cause the one coin to fall into the space, the two first coins being caught on the plurality of protrusions side by side.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2020Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: GLORY LTD.Inventors: Eisei Nishida, Kazuma Sugahara, Shuji Onishi, Yuji Fujio
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Publication number: 20200388097Abstract: A coin feeding apparatus comprising: a disk that includes a plurality of protrusions on a surface of the disk, is disposed to be inclined and rotatable, and, when rotating, causes a first coin or a second coin to be caught on and carried upward by the plurality of protrusions, the second coin having a diameter greater than that of the first coin; a cover that forms, between the cover and a surface of the disk, a space for storing a coin therein; and a separation unit that separates one coin out of two of the first coins from the plurality of protrusions so as to cause the one coin to fall into the space, the two first coins being caught on the plurality of protrusions side by side.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2020Publication date: December 10, 2020Inventors: Eisei NISHIDA, Kazuma SUGAHARA, Shuji ONISHI, Yuji FUJIO
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Patent number: 10580248Abstract: There is provided a coin handling apparatus capable of reducing the occurrence of failure caused by a foreign material. A coin handling apparatus includes a coin inlet unit into which coins are put, a coin receiving unit that receives the coins put into the coin inlet unit, a coin discharge unit to which the coins are discharged, and a foreign material discharge chute which is connected to the coin inlet unit and the coin discharge unit and along which a foreign material put into the coin inlet unit is discharged to the coin discharge unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2018Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: GLORY LTD.Inventors: Kazuma Sugahara, Masato Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20180342127Abstract: There is provided a coin handling apparatus capable of reducing the occurrence of failure caused by a foreign material. A coin handling apparatus includes a coin inlet unit into which coins are put, a coin receiving unit that receives the coins put into the coin inlet unit, a coin discharge unit to which the coins are discharged, and a foreign material discharge chute which is connected to the coin inlet unit and the coin discharge unit and along which a foreign material put into the coin inlet unit is discharged to the coin discharge unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2018Publication date: November 29, 2018Inventors: Kazuma SUGAHARA, Masato TAKEUCHI
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Patent number: 8955295Abstract: The stacking unit is provided with a stacking space, which accepts coins transported by the transport unit from above and stacks the coins. In the stacking space, stack support portions which support coins to be stacked are provided movably up and down. Coins to be stacked are supported in an inclined state by the stack support portions. At a height in which the stack of coins supported by the stack support portions are stacked, an inclination maintaining portion in which the higher side of the inclination of a coin comes into contact with is provided. The inclinations of coins higher than a space portion are forcibly maintained by the inclination maintaining portion, the space portion being formed on the higher side of the inclination of the coin at a height in the stack of the coins.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2008Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: Glory Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Maetaka, Yusuke Inuki, Kazuma Sugahara, Yoshikatsu Ota
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Publication number: 20110154786Abstract: The present invention provides a coin wrapping machine which can reliably lean coins C accepted in a stacking unit 21 from a transport unit 20 and stack the coins C without disorder, and can neatly wrap the stacked coins C. The stacking unit 21 is provided with a stacking space 41 which accepts coins C transported by the transport unit 20 from above and stacks the coins. In the stacking space 41, stack support portions 47 which support coins C to be stacked are provided movably up and down. On the upper surfaces of the stack support portions 47, stack support surfaces 48 are provided, and coins C to be stacked in the stacking space 41 are supported in an inclined state by the stack support surfaces 48. The stack support portions 47 lower each time a coin C is stacked.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2008Publication date: June 30, 2011Inventors: Takeshi Maetaka, Yusuke Inuki, Kazuma Sugahara, Yoshikatsu Ota
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Publication number: 20110005166Abstract: The present invention provides a coin wrapping machine which can reliably wrap coins according to the state of wrapping paper 16 and coin variation, and can satisfy the demand for neat wrapping of even coins that are of the same denomination and the demand for quick wrapping and improvement in process efficiency. A predetermined number of stacked coins are held by wrapping rollers and rotated, wrapping paper is wrapped around the peripheral surface of the stacked coins, and a pair of crimping hooks are moved toward end faces of the stacked coins and crimp both ends of the wrapping paper 16 around the end faces of the stacked coins. The crimping speed at which both ends of the wrapping paper 16 are folded around the end faces of the stacked coins by the crimping hooks 68 is arbitrarily selected. The rotation speed of the wrapping rollers 67 is adjusted according to a denomination, and the crimping speed of the crimping hooks 68 is adjusted to a selected crimping speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2008Publication date: January 13, 2011Inventors: Tetsuya Yamano, Kazuma Sugahara
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Patent number: 7470175Abstract: A top end portion of an outer peripheral surface of a coin feeding roller protrudes in a stacking section as a rotating friction surface so as to correspond to an end portion of a coin passage. A plurality of coins are conveyed to the end portion of the coin passage in a row in a direction of a diameter of the coins by operation of a conveying mechanism. The rotating friction surface of the feeding roller rotates while contacting a lower surface of a conveyed coin, to cause the coin to get over the rotating friction surface from an upstream side to a downstream side of the friction surface with respect to a direction of rotation thereof. Thus, the roller displaces a trailing edge of a previously conveyed coin upwards so that a leading edge of a subsequently conveyed coin can enter between the previously conveyed coin and the friction surface. By repeating this operation, conveyed coins are sequentially stacked in a stacking section.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2003Date of Patent: December 30, 2008Assignee: Glory Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuma Sugahara, Yusuke Inuki
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Publication number: 20040132397Abstract: The top end portion of the outer peripheral surface of a coin feeding roller protrudes in a stacking section as a rotating friction surface so as to correspond to the end portion of a coin passage. A plurality of coins are conveyed to the end portion of the coin passage in a row in a direction of diameter of the coins by means of a conveying mechanism. The rotating friction surface of the feeding roller rotates while contacting the lower surface of the conveyed coin, to cause the coin to get over the rotating friction surface from an upstream side to a downstream side of the friction surface with respect to the direction of rotation thereof. Thus, the roller displaces the trailing edge of the previously conveyed coin upwards so that the leading edge of a subsequently conveyed coin can enter between the previously conveyed coin and the friction surface. By repeating this operation, the conveyed coins are sequentially stacked in the stacking section.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2003Publication date: July 8, 2004Inventors: Kazuma Sugahara, Yusuke Inuki
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Publication number: 20020112455Abstract: The top end portion of the outer peripheral surface of a coin feeding roller (4) protrudes in a stacking section (3) as a rotating friction surface (40) so as to correspond to the end portion of a coin passage (1). A plurality of coins (C) are conveyed to the end portion of the coin passage (1) in a row in a direction of diameter of the coins by means of a conveying mechanism (2). The rotating friction surface (40) of the feeding roller rotates while contacting the lower surface of the conveyed coin (C), to cause the coin to get over the rotating friction surface from an upstream side to a downstream side of the friction surface with respect to the direction of rotation thereof. Thus, the roller (4) displaces the trailing edge of the previously conveyed coin upwards so that the leading edge of a subsequently conveyed coin can enter between the previously conveyed coin and the friction surface. By repeating this operation, a plurality of conveyed coins are sequentially stacked in the stacking section.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2002Publication date: August 22, 2002Inventors: Kazuma Sugahara, Yusuke Inuki
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Patent number: 6385944Abstract: A coin packaging apparatus has a structure facilitating confirmation of the correction or incorrectness of packaging paper when the wrong packaging paper is set, and facilitates replacement of the packaging paper.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 1999Date of Patent: May 14, 2002Assignee: Glory Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masanori Taniguchi, Kazuma Sugahara, Masaaki Suzuki, Fumio Kibihara