Abstract:
A coin hopper includes a hopper body including a housing having an accommodation chamber defined in a funnel-shaped coin box thereof and a coin outlet for guiding coins out of the accommodation chamber individually, a rotating wheel having multiple coin-pushing blades extended from a wheel base thereof and a coin-receiving space defined between each two adjacent coin-pushing blades, each coin-pushing blade having an abutment edge extending along one lateral side thereof for stopping one coin in one coin-receiving space and a pushing edge extending along an opposite lateral side thereof, a power drive adapted for rotating the rotating wheel to let coins be ruffled by coin-pushing blades and forced into coin-receiving spaces and then guided by arc-shaped abutment edges to move out of each coin-receiving space upwardly toward coin outlet one after another, and a coin-dispensing mechanism including a spring-loaded lever for pushing coins out of coin outlet individually.
Abstract:
A bill jam troubleshooting employed in a bill acceptor used in a consumer system includes the step of displaying an error message when a fake bill is identified by a sampling and validation module, the step of driving the transmission mechanism to carry the inserted bill back and forth over a validation zone repeatedly twice when a bill jam is detected, and the step of controlling the transmission mechanism to return the inserted bill to the bill slot. Thus, the invention improves the function and effect on the overall use of the product, and enhances the advantages and opportunities of commodity sales channels to increase product competitiveness.
Abstract:
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 board in a smooth condition to avoid bill jams.
Abstract:
A bill acceptor for use in an automatic vending machine to accept both cash payment and RFID stored-value card payment is disclosed to include a face panel that has a RFID sensing zone for sensing a RFID value-added card, a bill insertion slot for the insertion of a bill, a display for displaying data and operating buttons for operation by the user, and a bill acceptor body that has a bill passage connected to the bill insertion slot, a bill-transfer roller set for transferring an inserted bill from the bill insertion slot through the bill passage to a bill box and a control circuit module consisting of a microprocessor, a RFID chip, a sensor, a memory, a surveillance device and a clock.
Abstract:
An automatic vending machine for selling controlled commodities is disclosed to include a host, a card-swiping unit, a bill acceptor unit and a coin acceptor unit. The host has installed in the face panel thereof multiple display compartments for accommodating commodities to be sold, and a commodity take-out port and a coin-return outlet located on the face panel near the bottom side. The card-swiping unit has a card-swiping slot installed in the face panel of the host and an authenticity recognition module and an image sensor module for recognizing the user's identity. The bill acceptor unit has an insertion slot for the insertion of a card or bill, a transmission device for transferring each inserted card or bill, and a recognition device for recognizing the authenticity of each inserted card or bill. The coin acceptor unit has an induction coil module for detecting the authenticity and value of each inserted coin.
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
A bill dispenser is disclosed to include an optical transmitter module and an optical receiver module for measuring the transmittance of the bill being dispensed toward the bill outlet, and a control circuit for comparing the transmittance measured by the optical receiver module with a reference value and controlling the operation of the dispensing roller set of the bill dispenser subject to the comparison result, assuring accurate dispensing of one single bill at a time.
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
A capacity-adjustable card dispenser is disclosed to include a housing having an accommodation chamber for holding a stack of cards for dispensing, a plurality of expansion modules attachable to one another in a stack and attachable to the housing to expand the accommodation chamber, and male and female coupling devices respectively provided at the housing and the expansion modules for enabling the expansion modules to be detachably secured to one another in a stack and detachably secured to the housing.