Patents by Inventor Yoshikatsu Oota

Yoshikatsu Oota 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: 20210390814
    Abstract: A money handling apparatus comprises a housing, a first cassette attachment unit and a second cassette attachment unit that are provided in the housing; a first transport unit that performs a depositing processing to deposit money from a first cassette, attached to the first cassette attachment unit, into the housing; a second transport unit that performs a dispensing processing to dispense money from the housing as a change fund into a second cassette that is attached to the second cassette attachment unit; and processing circuitry configured to control the first transport unit and control the second transport unit such that the dispensing processing of the change fund is performed before the depositing processing of the money.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: Glory Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshikatsu OOTA
  • Patent number: 10621806
    Abstract: A coin handling apparatus capable of appropriately feeding coins is provided. A coin handling apparatus includes a plurality of storing units each including an inclining disk rotated in an inclining attitude in which the inclining disk inclines by a predetermined angle with respect to a vertical direction and a transport unit that transports coins. The storing units form a plurality of rows along the transport unit, and the rows each include a plurality of the storing units and are each disposed so that surfaces of adjacent inclining disks in the row face each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: GLORY LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Fujio, Masato Takeuchi, Yoshikatsu Oota
  • Publication number: 20180342125
    Abstract: A coin handling apparatus capable of appropriately feeding coins is provided. A coin handling apparatus includes a plurality of storing units each including an inclining disk rotated in an inclining attitude in which the inclining disk inclines by a predetermined angle with respect to a vertical direction and a transport unit that transports coins. The storing units form a plurality of rows along the transport unit, and the rows each include a plurality of the storing units and are each disposed so that surfaces of adjacent inclining disks in the row face each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Inventors: Yuji FUJIO, Masato TAKEUCHI, Yoshikatsu OOTA
  • Patent number: 8069967
    Abstract: A downstream side of a chute associated with at least one sorting hole is branched into a first chute and a second chute, through which coins ejected from the sorting hole are guided into first and second temporary storages, respectively. A route-switching mechanism is also provided that switches, between the two chutes, a route of the coins ejected from the sorting hole. The following control is conducted for the coins of a denomination to be ejected from the sorting hole. (i) Switching the route of the coins ejected from the sorting hole from the first chute to the second chute in appropriate timing to ensure that the last coin (CN) to be received into the first temporary storage enters the first chute, and (ii) controlling an ejection mechanism to eject, among coins following the last coin, all coins that have reached the ejection mechanism (6a) earlier that the above route-switching operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Glory Ltd.
    Inventors: Yushi Hino, Shungo Yoshino, Yoshikatsu Oota, Tatsuya Oonishi
  • Publication number: 20090215372
    Abstract: A downstream side of a chute (140) associated with at least one sorting hole (5c) is branched into a first chute (141) and a second chute (142), through which coins ejected from the sorting hole (5c) are guided into first and second temporary storages, respectively. A route-switching mechanism (9) is also provided that switches, between the two chutes, a route of the coins ejected from the sorting hole (5c). The following control is conducted for the coins of a denomination to be ejected from the sorting hole (5c): (i) switching the route of the coins ejected from the sorting hole from the first chute (141) to the second chute (142) in appropriate timing to ensure that the last coin (CN) to be received into the first temporary storage enters the first chute (141), and (ii) controlling an ejection mechanism (6a) to eject, among coins following the last coin (CN), all coins (CN+1, CN+2) that has been reached the ejection mechanism (6a) earlier than the above route-switching operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2005
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Inventors: Yushi Hino, Shungo Yoshino, Yoshikatsu Oota, Tatsuya Oonishi
  • Publication number: 20020162724
    Abstract: A coin sorting apparatus (S) has a presorting unit (A) and two main sorting units (B1, B2). The presorting unit (A) sorts mixed coins into three groups (large coin group, medium coin group, small coin group). The main sorting units (B1, B2) sort by denomination coins of the two groups (medium coin group, small coin group) among the three groups of coins broadly sorted by the presorting unit (A). Thus, the number of denominations to be dealt with by a single sorting operation can be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2002
    Publication date: November 7, 2002
    Inventors: Yushi Hino, Masaharu Tochio, Daisuke Hoshino, Kisho Yanase, Yoshikatsu Oota, Tasuku Nakamoto