摘要:
A low power control apparatus for a coin operated telephone controls a full range of phonefunctions as well as an electronic coin acceptor. The control utilizes phone line power. Power for all the normal operations of the coin operated telephone and its coin acceptor (30) is also supplied from the phone line. The control is preferably microcontroller based and designed utilizing low power components. In the control, an interface circuit (55) serves to connect the phone tip and ring lines to either a power supply circuit (230) or to a totalizer (350) and escrow control circuit. The power supply also provides power to an audio network (380) including a variety of fraud prevention circuits, a modem (400), and several time generator circuits. A monitor system (510) monitors the status of several security switches to monitor the phone's condition. Hardware and software design features control the application of power to circuits only when needed.
摘要:
A device for guiding an arriving coin, which is travelling edgewise, to a selected one of a plurality of exits (2) of the device, comprising a guide (38, 40; 14) having a coin entry to admit arriving coins and a coin outlet, the guide being of changeable configuration, and guide control means (56, 54, 42, 48, 50, 58, 44, 36, 46, 32) adapted to selectively position the coin outlet in register with any selected one of the exits, and to change the configuration of the guide as its coin outlet moves between exits. The device can guide coins to numerous exits spaced over a wide range yet is compact in height and width and requires only a single actuator.
摘要:
A coin handling apparatus having a passageway in which coins travel, and an impact element (10) secured to a part (4) of the apparatus in a position where it will be struck by a travelling coin so as to reduce the kinetic energy of the coin, characterised in that the impact element has a securing portion (38) around which plastics material, of which said part is made, has been moulded to secure the impact element.
摘要:
A system for positioning a wafer (12) at a station within a wafer processing system such that the center of mass of the wafer coincides with the center of the rotatable chuck (22) at the station. A signal representative of the position of the wafer with respect to the rotatable chuck is produced by a sensor (54) and is utilized to determine a vector which defines distance and direction of the centering error between the center of rotation of the chuck and the center of mass of the wafer. The chuck and wafer are rotationally indexed through an angle to align the foregoing vector with a line which approximates the arcuate path traversed by the center of mass of the wafer when it is subsequently conveyed within the system. A transfer arm (44) is utilized to convey the wafer through the foregoing arcuate path with respect to the chuck so that the center of mass of the wafer coincides with the center of rotation of the chuck when the wafer is subsequently placed on same.