[Problem] To provide a communication system of an automatic vending machine enabling communication between terminal devices via a local communication network without altering the control program of the automatic vending machine. [Solution] The communication system of an automatic vending machine (1) communicates via a main control unit as a master terminal and a plurality of terminal devices as slave terminals comprising: a backbone communication network (4) connecting the main control unit (5) with each terminal device (2,3,7); a local communication network (6) connecting each terminal device (2,3,7); and a transmitting control means (2a,3a,7a) provided to each terminal device (2,3,7) in order to avoid communication conflict in the local communication network (6). If the transmitting control means (2a, 3a, 7a) receives a transmission permission command TxD sequentially transmitted from the main control unit (5) to each terminal device (2,3,7) and identifies that the transmission permission command TxD is addressed to its own terminal device, the transmitting control means (2a,3a,7a) allows its own terminal device to transmit information to other terminal devices via the local communication network (6).
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2.
COIN PROCESSING DEVICE PROVIDED WITH TEMPORARY COIN WITHHOLDING MECHANISM
The present invention relates to a coin processing device mounted in a vending machine, and provides a coin processing device which is equipped with a temporary coin withholding mechanism for driving two or more coin withholding levers using a single drive device. The temporary coin withholding mechanism of the present invention is provided with a single drive means (6), a first coin withholding lever (71) for withholding/releasing a coin that has been guided to a first coin selection channel, a second coin withholding lever (72) for withholding/releasing a coin that has been guided to a second coin selection channel, and a coin detection-linking member (91) which is equipped with a detection function for detecting whether or not a coin is being withheld in the first coin selection channel; wherein when withholding is detected, only the first coin withholding lever (71) is driven by the drive means (6) without driving the second coin withholding lever, and the first coin withholding lever is switched from the withholding position to the release position; and when withholding is not detected, by the drive means (6), the first coin withholding lever (71) is driven and the second coin withholding lever (72) is switched from the withholding position to the release position.
A payment system provided with a payment device which performs payment with electronic money and a portable noncontact IC card case into which a noncontact IC card containing payment information to be used for the payment can be inserted. The card case is provided with an antenna for the noncontact IC card communicable with the inserted noncontact IC card, a first antenna for human body communication communicable with the payment device, and a control means which when the noncontact IC card is inserted, transmits to the payment device through the first antenna for human body communication, payment information read from the inserted noncontact IC card through the antenna for the noncontact IC card. The payment device is provided with a second antenna for human body communication which is communicable with the first antenna for human body communication and a payment means which performs payment on the basis of the payment information which the second antenna for human body communication received from the card case. An electrode plane of the first antenna for human body communication is disposed so as to overlap a radiation plane of the antenna for the noncontact IC card and comprises an opening section which exposes the radiation plane and a cut which reaches from the opening section to the periphery of the electrode plane.
G06K 17/00 - Méthodes ou dispositions pour faire travailler en coopération des équipements couverts par plusieurs des groupes principaux , p.ex. fichiers automatiques de cartes incluant les opérations de transport et de lecture
H01Q 7/00 - Cadres ayant une distribution du courant sensiblement uniforme et un diagramme de rayonnement directif perpendiculaire au plan du cadre
H04B 13/00 - Systèmes de transmission caractérisés par le milieu utilisé pour la transmission, non prévus dans les groupes
An integrated antenna which comprises an antenna for a non-contact IC card and an antenna for human-body communication. An electrode plate of the antenna for human-body communication is disposed so as to overlap a radiation plane of the antenna for the non-contact IC card and comprises an opening section which exposes the radiation plane and a cut which reaches the periphery of the electrode plate from the opening section.
G06K 19/07 - Supports d'enregistrement avec des marques conductrices, des circuits imprimés ou des éléments de circuit à semi-conducteurs, p.ex. cartes d'identité ou cartes de crédit avec des puces à circuit intégré
G06K 19/077 - Supports d'enregistrement avec des marques conductrices, des circuits imprimés ou des éléments de circuit à semi-conducteurs, p.ex. cartes d'identité ou cartes de crédit avec des puces à circuit intégré - Détails de structure, p.ex. montage de circuits dans le support
H01Q 7/00 - Cadres ayant une distribution du courant sensiblement uniforme et un diagramme de rayonnement directif perpendiculaire au plan du cadre
H04B 13/00 - Systèmes de transmission caractérisés par le milieu utilisé pour la transmission, non prévus dans les groupes
A portable non-contact IC card case into which a non-contact IC card can be inserted is provided with an antenna for the non-contact IC card communicable with the inserted non-contact IC card, an antenna for human-body communication, and a control means which transmits, through the antenna for human-body communication, information read from the non-contact IC card inserted through the antenna for the non-contact IC card. The portable non-contact IC card case is characterized in that the electrode plate of the antenna for human-body communication is disposed so as to overlap a radiation plane of the antenna for the non-contact IC card and that the electrode plate comprises an opening section which exposes the radiation plane and a cut which reaches the periphery of the electrode plate from the opening section.
G06K 19/00 - Supports d'enregistrement pour utilisation avec des machines et avec au moins une partie prévue pour supporter des marques numériques
G06K 19/07 - Supports d'enregistrement avec des marques conductrices, des circuits imprimés ou des éléments de circuit à semi-conducteurs, p.ex. cartes d'identité ou cartes de crédit avec des puces à circuit intégré
H01Q 7/00 - Cadres ayant une distribution du courant sensiblement uniforme et un diagramme de rayonnement directif perpendiculaire au plan du cadre
H04B 13/00 - Systèmes de transmission caractérisés par le milieu utilisé pour la transmission, non prévus dans les groupes
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AMUSEMENT CENTRE PAYMENT SYSTEM AND PAYMENT DEVICE
Provided are an amusement centre payment system and payment device which enable electronic payments to be made appropriately in an amusement centre such as a game centre. A payment device 1 is connected to a plurality of electronic money terminal devices 2 (2-1 - 2-n) corresponding to a plurality of game apparatuses 3 (3-1 - 3-n) via an intranet 4, and electronic payments are made using a combination of card readers/writers provided in each of the electronic money terminal devices 2, and a payment processing unit provided in the payment device 1.
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G06Q 20/00 - Architectures, schémas ou protocoles de paiement
G06Q 20/06 - Circuits privés de paiement, p.ex. impliquant de la monnaie électronique utilisée uniquement entre les participants à un programme commun de paiement
G06Q 20/34 - Architectures, schémas ou protocoles de paiement caractérisés par l'emploi de dispositifs spécifiques utilisant des cartes, p.ex. cartes à puces ou cartes magnétiques
G06Q 50/00 - Systèmes ou procédés spécialement adaptés à un secteur particulier d’activité économique, p.ex. aux services d’utilité publique ou au tourisme
A vending machine (1) has a wireless LAN base function and an internet connection function through a specific provider and sells an 旜internet connection service” to an arbitrary user in a timed manner. The user who has purchased the 旜internet connection service” in the vending machine (1) enters the wireless LAN that the vending machine (1) builds up through the own mobile personal computer (30) and is connected to the Internet through the communication interface of the vending machine (1) via the wireless LAN. This allows even a user who signs no wireless LAN internet usage contract with the specific provider to easily receive the internet connection service.
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G06Q 30/06 - Transactions d’achat, de vente ou de crédit-bail
G06Q 50/00 - Systèmes ou procédés spécialement adaptés à un secteur particulier d’activité économique, p.ex. aux services d’utilité publique ou au tourisme
G07F 7/08 - Mécanismes actionnés par des objets autres que des pièces de monnaie pour déclencher ou actionner des appareils de vente, de location, de distribution de pièces de monnaie ou de papier-monnaie, ou de remboursement par carte d'identité codée ou carte de crédit codée
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Stain judging means (80) judges whether or not the surface of a light-emitting element (51) or a light-receiving element (52) is stained on the basis of the intensity of light received by each light-receiving element (52) of optical sensors. If the surface of the light-emitting element (51) or the light-receiving element (52) of an optical sensor is judged to be stained, a warning is indicated to the outside with a monitor lamp (60). When a warning is indicated with the monitor lamp (60) and when the open state of a bill transport path to the device body is detected by an open detecting switch (70), a control unit (90) allows the light-emitting element of the optical sensor having a light-emitting element (51) or a light-receiving element (52) whose surface is judged to be stained to blink or operate in a mode different from those of the light-emitting elements of the other optical sensors. With this, an optical sensor needing to be cleaned/inspected out of the optical sensors can be easily detected, and cleaning/inspecting work can be efficiently performed.
G07D 7/00 - Vérification spécialement adaptée à la détermination de l’identité ou de l’authenticité de papiers de valeur ou pour discriminer ceux qui sont inacceptables, p.ex. qui ne correspondent pas à une monnaie
G07D 7/12 - Lumière visible, rayonnement infrarouge ou ultraviolet
G07F 9/10 - Boîtiers de l'appareil, p.ex. comportant des moyens de chauffage ou de réfrigération
Provided is a coin discriminating device, which is used in an automatic vendor or the like and can discriminate the coins properly. The coin discriminating device to be mounted in an apparatus having a metal portion, comprises a coin passage for passing the coins therethrough, and a coin discriminating coil unit arranged along the coin passage for discriminating the coins. The coin discriminating device is characterized by comprising either conductive members having their end portions connected electrically with each other and having inductance components or a substrate having those conductive members formed therein, and in that the conductive members or the substrate is disposed on the side, as opposed to the coin passage, of the coin discriminating coil unit and between the coin discriminating coil unit and the metal portion.
A paper sheet identifying device which is provided with a discrimination sensor which precisely obtains characteristic data on a paper sheet by suppressing variation of the received light quantity of reflected light from the paper sheet being transferred. The paper sheet identifying device identifies the paper sheet on the basis of received light data from an optical detection part which detects the feature of the paper sheet. The optical detection part is provided with a first light source which irradiates the front surface of the paper sheet with light, a first lens which converges reflected light reflected by the front surface of the paper sheet, a first light-receiving element which receives light transmitted through the first lens, a second light source which irradiates the paper sheet with light, a second lens which converges reflected light reflected by the rear surface of the paper sheet, and a second light-receiving element which receives light transmitted through the second lens. The main surface of the first lens and the light-receiving surface of the first light-receiving element are so disposed as to satisfy Scheimpflug relation with respect to the reflecting surface of the front surface of the paper sheet. The main surface of the second lens and the light-receiving surface of the second light-receiving element are so disposed as to satisfy Scheimpflug relation with respect to the reflecting surface of the rear surface of the paper sheet.
[PROBLEMS] To provide a device for sorting disk bodies, where workability in maintenance and check, including cleaning etc., of a path for the disk bodies is further improved and accuracy of sorting disk bodies is further enhanced. [MEANS FOR SOLVING THE PROBLEMS] The device for sorting disk bodies has multiple gate-plate biasing means at multiple positions. During the time when a gate plate (3) is rotated by a predetermined rotation angle about an axis (8), the gate- plate biasing means apply biasing force to the gate plate (3) in the direction in which it closes a main plate (2), and when the gate plate (3) has been rotated the predetermined rotation angle or more, the gate-plate biasing means apply biasing force to the gate plate (3) in which it opens the main plate (2).
A sheet recognizing device and method for precisely checking the authentication of a sheet by performing recognition of color and watermark of a sheet and detecting the subtle characteristic of a hue ink printed on one side of the sheet. The sheet recognizing device comprises first and third light sources for projecting light at predetermined angles to a sheet, a second light source for projecting light from a vertical direction, first and second light-receiving elements for receiving light at angles at which the hues of the hue ink printed area originated from the lights from the first and second light sources are different, a third light-receiving element opposed to the second light source with the sheet interposed therebetween, first computing means for computing a first color tone depending on the hue ink printed area on the basis of the light-reception outputs from the first light-receiving element due to the light from the first light source and from the second light-receiving element due to the light from the third light source, second computing means for computing a second color tone independent of the hue ink printed area on the basis of the light-reception outputs from the first light-receiving element due to the light from the second light source and from the third light-receiving element due to the light from the third light source, whereby the sheet is checked on the basis of the computation results by the first and second computing means.
G07D 7/12 - Lumière visible, rayonnement infrarouge ou ultraviolet
G01N 21/892 - Recherche de la présence de criques, de défauts ou de souillures dans un matériau mobile, p.ex. du papier, des textiles caractérisée par la crique, le défaut ou la caractéristique de l'objet examiné
G07D 7/00 - Vérification spécialement adaptée à la détermination de l’identité ou de l’authenticité de papiers de valeur ou pour discriminer ceux qui sont inacceptables, p.ex. qui ne correspondent pas à une monnaie
⏧PROBLEMS] A disk body discrimination device capable of simply removing dirt including dust and foreign objects adhered on a rail. ⏧MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] A disk body discrimination device (1) has rail cleaning means (20) that is projectable and recedable. The disk body discrimination device (1) recedes normally from a disk traveling surface (10a) of the rail and projects toward the disk traveling surface (10a) at the time of cleaning the rail (10).
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G07D 3/00 - Tri, selon leur valeur, de pièces de monnaie en vrac
G07D 9/00 - Comptage de pièces de monnaie; Manipulation de pièces de monnaie non prévue dans les autres groupes de la présente sous-classe
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