Patents by Inventor Yasuyuki Kodama

Yasuyuki Kodama 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).

  • Publication number: 20020153223
    Abstract: A coin sorter, wherein three distributing levers (30, 42, 150) are connected to each other through a link means (202) so that the number of the driving means thereof is not increased even when the number of the distributing lever is increased and driven interlockingly with each other by a single solenoid (201) operating one of the three distributing levers (30, 42, 150).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2002
    Publication date: October 24, 2002
    Inventors: Kenji Nakajima, Yasuyuki Kodama, Takahiro Hayashi, Masato Yagi, Shinichi Kosugi
  • Patent number: 6412619
    Abstract: A bill identification device (20) is disposed in the vertical portion (6b) of a bill transporting route (6) that comprises a horizontal portion (6a) connected to a bill slot (3) and a vertical portion (6b) rising up substantially in a vertical direction from the downstream end of the horizontal portion (6a) whereby the drop in genuineness identification capability for an inserted bill can be prevented as much as possible even if a liquid such as salt water is poured into the bill slot (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon Conlux
    Inventors: Yukio Ito, Yasuyuki Kodama, Mitsugu Mikami, Yoshikazu Mori
  • Publication number: 20020079641
    Abstract: A bank-note processing device wherein disposed between a pair of rotary drums (22, 23) is a stacker lever (53) that presses that portion of the bank-note (31) inserted in bank-note guide slits (22b, 23b) which is positioned on the side of a bank-note reverse-flowing-preventive lever (32) toward a stacker (20) in operative association with the movement of a stacker chute (51), whereby even if a large number of wrinkled bank-notes are received in the stacker, jamming of bank-notes is minimized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2001
    Publication date: June 27, 2002
    Inventors: Yukio Ito, Yasuyuki Kodama, Noboru Yamagishi, Tadashi Hatamachi
  • Publication number: 20020070496
    Abstract: A bank-note processing device wherein disposed between a pair of rotary drums (22, 23) is a stacker lever (53) that presses that portion of the bank-note (31) inserted in bank-note guide slits (22b, 23b) which is positioned on the side of a bank-note reverse-flowing-preventive lever (32) toward a stacker (20) in operative association with the movement of a stacker chute (51), whereby even if a large number of wrinkled bank-notes are received in the stacker, jamming of bank-notes is minimized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2002
    Publication date: June 13, 2002
    Inventors: Yukio Ito, Yasuyuki Kodama, Noboru Yamagishi, Tadashi Hatamachi
  • Patent number: 6394444
    Abstract: A bank-note processing device wherein disposed between a pair of rotary drums (22, 23) is a stacker lever (53) that presses that portion of the bank-note (31) inserted in bank-note guide slits (22b, 23b) which is positioned on the side of a bank-note reverse-flowing-preventive lever (32) toward a stacker (20) in operative association with the movement of a stacker chute (51), whereby even if a large number of wrinkled bank-notes are received in the stacker, jamming of bank-notes is minimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2002
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon Conlux
    Inventors: Yukio Ito, Yasuyuki Kodama, Noboru Yamagishi, Tadashi Hatamachi
  • Patent number: 6217021
    Abstract: Stacker (2) of the paper money processing device (1) is provided with L-shaped levers (4) whose front end (4a) is formed to be orientated upward and which rotatably support auxiliary rollers (5) at the front end (4a), and a thrusting member (6) which thrusts the L-shaped levers (4) toward a paper money carrier belt (26) of the device main body (22) constantly. The stacker (2) is constructed in such a way that, when it is mounted in the device main body (22), a paper money inserted is held and carried between the auxiliary rollers (5) and the paper money carrier belt (26) by the thrusting force of the thrusting member (6), and when the stacker (2) is removed from the device main body (22), a paper money housed within the stacker (2) is prevented from falling down from the stacker (2) by the L-shaped levers (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2001
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon Conlux
    Inventors: Yukio Ito, Yasuyuki Kodama, Noboru Yamagishi, Tadashi Hatamachi
  • Patent number: 5887695
    Abstract: A bill processor for use in a bill handling machine comprises a first bill transport passage for guiding a bill inserted in a direction substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of bills stacked in a stacker toward substantially middle of interior of the main body of the bill handling machine, and a second bill transport passage for guiding the bill from the termination end of the first bill transport passage along the longitudinal direction of the stacked bills, wherein the first bill transport passage is formed in a meandering form along the longitudinal direction of the stacked bills, whereby the depth of the bill processor can be made small.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon Conlux
    Inventors: Tadashi Hatamachi, Toshihiko Kasuya, Yasuyuki Kodama, Makoto Yamamoto, Mitsugu Mikami, Yukichi Hayashi
  • Patent number: 5639081
    Abstract: A bill processor for use in a bill handling machine comprises a first bill transport passage for guiding a bill inserted in a direction substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of bills stacked in a stacker toward substantially middle of interior of the main body of the bill handling machine, and a second bill transport passage for guiding the bill from the termination end of the first bill transport passage along the longitudinal direction of the stacked bills, wherein the first bill transport passage is formed in a meandering form along the longitudinal direction of the stacked bills, whereby the depth of the bill processor can be made small.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 17, 1997
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon Conlux
    Inventors: Tadashi Hatamachi, Toshihiko Kasuya, Yasuyuki Kodama, Makoto Yamamoto, Mitsugu Mikami, Yukichi Hayashi
  • Patent number: 5564691
    Abstract: A bill processor for use in a bill handling machine comprises a first bill transport passage for guiding a bill inserted in a direction substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of bills stacked in a stacker toward substantially middle of interior of the main body of the bill handling machine, and a second bill transport passage for guiding the bill from the termination end of the first bill transport passage along the longitudinal direction of the stacked bills, wherein the first bill transport passage is formed in a meandering form along the longitudinal direction of the stacked bills, whereby the depth of the bill processor can be made small.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1996
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon Conlux
    Inventors: Tadashi Hatamachi, Toshihiko Kasuya, Yasuyuki Kodama, Makoto Yamamoto, Mitsugu Mikami, Yukichi Hayashi
  • Patent number: D404075
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1999
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon Conlux
    Inventors: Tadashi Hatamachi, Yasuyuki Kodama, Noboru Yamagishi