Patents by Inventor Wei-Jr Chen
Wei-Jr Chen 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: 8191700Abstract: A bill box for use in a bill acceptor having a RFID read/write module and adapted for receiving bills from the bill acceptor is disclosed to include a housing having a bracket provided with locating grooves, bottom plates, stop plates, finger slot and stop grooves and suspending therein and dividing the internal space of the housing into a bill storage chamber and a partition chamber, and a memory carrier provided with stop blocks, retaining lugs, springy retainer and stop strips for quick mounting in the bracket in a detachable manner and carrying a wireless memory device for recording bill storage data by the wireless read/write module of the bill acceptor wirelessly for quick data check.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2011Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: International Currency Technologies CorporationInventors: Wei-Jr Chen, Cheng-Kang Yu, Yueh-Ping Hsu
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Publication number: 20110266114Abstract: A bill box for use in a bill acceptor having a RFID read/write module and adapted for receiving bills from the bill acceptor is disclosed to include a housing having a bracket provided with locating grooves, bottom plates, stop plates, finger slot and stop grooves and suspending therein and dividing the internal space of the housing into a bill storage chamber and a partition chamber, and a memory carrier provided with stop blocks, retaining lugs, springy retainer and stop strips for quick mounting in the bracket in a detachable manner and carrying a wireless memory device for recording bill storage data by the wireless read/write module of the bill acceptor wirelessly for quick data check.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2011Publication date: November 3, 2011Inventors: Wei-Jr CHEN, Cheng-Kang Yu, Yueh-Ping Hsu
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Publication number: 20100320056Abstract: A bill acceptor includes a bill acceptor main unit having a bill insertion slot, a bill transfer mechanism for transferring each inserted bill through a bill passage to a bill outlet, a bill recognition unit for recognizing the authenticity and value of each inserted bill and a bill pusher for pushing each inserted bill out of the bill outlet, and a bill box having a front opening facing the bill pusher, two elongated stop members disposed at two opposite lateral sides of the front opening in a parallel manner, a bill-receiving bearing board supported on spring members inside the box body of the bill acceptor for receiving each bill that is pushed away from the bill outlet into the bill box and a baffle pivotally mounted in the box body at the top side of front opening adjacent to the bill outlet and biasable for letting each inserted bill be pushed by the bill pusher out of the bill outlet onto the bill-receiving bearing board and reversible to hold down each received bill on the bill-receiving bearing boardType: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2010Publication date: December 23, 2010Applicant: INTERNATIONAL CURRENCY TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Cheng-Kang Yu, Wei-Jr Chen, Shih-Chia Chen
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Publication number: 20100300829Abstract: A bill box for use in a bill acceptor having a RFID read/write module and adapted for receiving bills from the bill acceptor is disclosed to include a housing having a bill inlet, a bill storage chamber and a top bracket with a mounting chamber, and a memory carrier frame mounted in the mounting chamber of the bracket and carrying a RFID memory for recording bill storage data by the wireless read/write module of the bill acceptor wirelessly for quick bill storage check.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2009Publication date: December 2, 2010Applicant: INTERNATIONAL CURRENCY TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: WEI-JR CHEN, CHENG-KANG YU, YUEH-PING HSU
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Patent number: 7703592Abstract: A bill acceptor includes a main body attached with a bill box at the back side, a transmission mechanism for carrying a bill or license into a passage in the main body for examination by a recognition unit inside the main body and returning the rejected bill or examined license and carrying the examined bill to the bill box, and a face panel, which is fastened to the front side of the main body and has an insertion slot for the insertion of a bill/license into the passage and a finger guide portion disposed at one lateral side of the insertion slot for the insertion of a finger to bias a jammed license out of the insertion slot.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2008Date of Patent: April 27, 2010Assignee: International Currency Technologies CorporationInventors: Cheng-Kang Yu, Wei-Jr Chen, Shih-Chia Chen
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Publication number: 20090321217Abstract: A bill acceptor includes a housing defining an insertion slot and a passage extending from said insertion slot, a transmission mechanism for delivering each inserted bill/license from the insertion slot to the passage and then to a bill box been attached to the housing, a gate controllable to open/close the insertion slot, an solenoid valve controllable to move the gate between the close position and the open position, a first media sensor disposed at a front side relative to the gate for driving the solenoid valve to open the gate upon detection of the insertion of a bill/license into the insertion slot, and a second media sensor disposed at a rear side relative to the gate and adapted for driving the solenoid valve to close the gate after the delivery of an inserted bill/license to the passage by the transmission mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2008Publication date: December 31, 2009Applicant: International Currency Technologies CorporationInventors: Cheng-Kang Yu, Wei-Jr Chen, Shih-Chia Chen, Tien-Yuan Chien
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Publication number: 20090294242Abstract: A bill acceptor includes a main body attached with a bill box at the back side, a transmission mechanism for carrying a bill or license into a passage in the main body for examination by a recognition unit inside the main body and returning the rejected bill or examined license and carrying the examined bill to the bill box, and a face panel, which is fastened to the front side of the main body and has an insertion slot for the insertion of a bill/license into the passage and a finger guide portion disposed at one lateral side of the insertion slot for the insertion of a finger to bias a jammed license out of the insertion slot.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2008Publication date: December 3, 2009Applicant: INTERNATIONAL CURRENCY TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Cheng-Kang Yu, Wei Jr Chen, Shih-Chia Chen
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Publication number: 20090242353Abstract: A bill acceptor in which a bill box has a baffle pivoted to the box body thereof at one side of a bill entrance of the box body and torsional springs bilaterally coupled between the baffle and the box body to bias the baffle toward a spring-supported bill-receiving bearing board inside the bill box so that the baffle allows a inserted bill to be moved onto the bill-receiving bearing board by a bill-pressing device in a bill acceptor main unit of the bill acceptor and immediately holds the bill positively on the bill-receiving bearing board after retrieval of the bill-pressing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2008Publication date: October 1, 2009Applicant: INTERNATIONAL CURRENCY TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Cheng-Kang Yu, Wei-Jr Chen, Shih-Chia Chen
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Patent number: 7489456Abstract: A lens module includes a holder base, which is affixed to a circuit board and has bottom receiving holes for receiving LEDs or sensors on the circuit board and a top flange with a foolproof notch, a lens device press-fitted into the top flange and secured to the foolproof notch to ensure accurate positioning and having flat protrusions engaged into respective through holes in the holder base in alignment with the LEDs or sensors, and a top cover capped on the holder base to hold down the lens device and having through holes that receive convex portions of the lens device respectively.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2007Date of Patent: February 10, 2009Assignee: International Currency Technologies CorporationInventors: Wen-Fu Yang, Hai-En Tsai, Ya-Huei Yang, Wei-Jr Chen
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Publication number: 20080273255Abstract: A lens module includes a holder base, which is affixed to a circuit board and has bottom receiving holes for receiving LEDs or sensors on the circuit board and a top flange with a foolproof notch, a lens device press-fitted into the top flange and secured to the foolproof notch to ensure accurate positioning and having flat protrusions engaged into respective through holes in the holder base in alignment with the LEDs or sensors, and a top cover capped on the holder base to hold down the lens device and having through holes that receive convex portions of the lens device respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2007Publication date: November 6, 2008Applicant: INTERNATIONAL CURRENCY TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Wen-Fu Yang, Hai-En Tsai, Ya-Huei Yang, Wei-Jr Chen
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Publication number: 20080173832Abstract: A valuable paper validator for use in a vending (coin change) machine is disclosed to include a delivery unit for delivering a valuable paper through a delivery path, a LED package having multiple LED chips spaced above the delivery path and controllable to emit different wavelengths of intense pulsed light, a collimator lens for collimating light passing from the LED package through the valuable paper, a photodiode spaced below the delivery path for collecting light passed through the valuable paper for verifying the authenticity of the valuable paper, and a condensing lens for focusing different wavelengths of light passed through the valuable paper onto the photodiode.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2007Publication date: July 24, 2008Inventors: Tien-Yuan Chien, Wei-Jr Chen, Hai-En Tsai, Wen-Yuan Tsai, Cheng-Yi Lin, Ya-Huei Yang
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Patent number: 7335903Abstract: A detachable bill acceptor mounting arrangement includes a face panel of a vending machine, the face panel having two protruding locating plates at two sides and an angled guide groove at each protruding locating plate, and a bill acceptor formed of a lower unit and an upper unit, the lower unit having two recessed locating portions detachably coupled to the protruding locating plates of the face panel and two pair of stub guide rods insertable into the angled guide grooves to secure the lower unit to the face panel, the upper unit having two flat pivot rods detachably coupled to a respective pivot hole on the lower unit and two hooks releasably hooked in a respective retaining slot on the lower unit to lock the upper unit to the lower unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2007Date of Patent: February 26, 2008Assignee: International Currency Technologies CorporationInventors: Ya-Huei Yang, Wei-Jr Chen
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Patent number: 6897461Abstract: An improved bill slot panel for a vending machine is disclosed. The bill slot panel of the present invention comprises a light-transmitting element, which is installed at a bill slot entrance of a bill slot panel of the vending machine. The light-transmitting element picks up the light projected by a light source installed inside the bill slot panel to substantially illuminate the bill slot entrance.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2003Date of Patent: May 24, 2005Assignee: International Currency Technologies CorporationInventor: Wei-Jr Chen
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Publication number: 20040140441Abstract: An improved bill slot panel for a vending machine is disclosed. The bill slot panel of the present invention comprises a light-transmitting element, which is installed at a bill slot entrance of a bill slot panel of the vending machine. The light-transmitting element picks up the light projected by a light source installed inside the bill slot panel to substantially illuminate the bill slot entrance.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2003Publication date: July 22, 2004Applicant: INTERNATIONAL CURRENCY TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventor: Wei Jr Chen