Data acquisition unit
    3.
    发明授权
    Data acquisition unit 失效
    数据采集​​单元

    公开(公告)号:US4350238A

    公开(公告)日:1982-09-21

    申请号:US137436

    申请日:1980-04-04

    IPC分类号: G07F9/08

    CPC分类号: G07F9/026 G07F9/08

    摘要: A data acquisition unit accepts serial bit streams from a control device for a vending machine, and it records the data represented by those serial bit streams. The data in one of those serial bit streams will include the number of vends of each product corresponding to the various selection switches of the vending machine, and the data in the other of those serial bit streams will include the price data. The data acquisition unit will store the price data in a non-resettable location and also in a resettable location. A readout can be actuated to effect the displaying of the selection line number and of the corresponding settable and non-resettable price data.

    摘要翻译: 数据采集​​单元从用于自动售货机的控制装置接受串行比特流,并记录由那些串行比特流表示的数据。 这些串行比特流之一中的数据将包括与自动售货机的各种选择开关相对应的每个产品的销售数量,并且这些串行比特流中的另一个中的数据将包括价格数据。 数据采集​​单元将价格数据存储在不可重置的位置以及可复位的位置。 可以启动读数以实现选择行号和相应的可设置和不可重置的价格数据的显示。

    Validator for scrip
    4.
    发明授权
    Validator for scrip 失效
    SCRIP的验证者

    公开(公告)号:US3937926A

    公开(公告)日:1976-02-10

    申请号:US432429

    申请日:1974-01-10

    摘要: A piece of scrip is engraved or printed with groups of patterns which can be sensed by a validator for scrip and one of those groups of patterns will define a code which will permit that piece of scrip to be accepted only by a scrip validator or by scrip validators which have that same code stored therein. Two additional groups of patterns define codes which can cause that scrip validator or those scrip validators to automatically respond to the codes stored therein to actuate price-determining relays within a vending machine. Each pattern is formed by a number of spaced parallel lines, and the various patterns on a piece of scrip can be given different identities merely by changing the spacing between the trailing edges of those spaced parallel lines. The patterns in each group of patterns will be sensed in a prescribed sequence, and the sequentially sensed patterns in any of those groups of patterns can be given various identities. As a result, the scrip validator of the present invention can accept a piece of scrip which has a given number of patterns of specifically different identities and yet reject a piece of scrip which has those same patterns arranged in a different sequence. In this way, the present invention makes it possible to use permutations, rather than mere combinations, of potentially usable pattern identities, and thus makes it possible to use just fifteen specifically different pattern identities to make thirty-two thousand seven hundred and sixty different pieces of scrip. The scrip validator of the present invention stores the codes, which correspond to the codes defined by the patterns on the piece of scrip, in serially shifted shift registers; and, as each pattern on the piece of scrip is sensed by the scrip validator, the data within the shift registers is serially shifted a plurality of times. The identity of any given pattern can be determined by three signals; and, by utilizing serially shifted shift registers which have seven or more stages, the present invention enables each shift register to store the pattern-identifying data for at least two patterns. In addition, the serial shifting of the shift registers permits the pattern-identifying data for the various patterns to be presented in fixed sequences. Moreover, by merely changing some of the connections to the input terminals of the shift registers, it is possible to change the codes stored within those shift registers. The frequency which identifies each pattern is sensed by the combination of a digital filter and a counter; and such a combination provides a strict test of the identification of each pattern because it requires the frequency which corresponds to the spacing of the trailing edges of the lines of that pattern to match the frequency of the digital filter, and it also requires that pattern to have a minimum number of lines which have that same spacing.

    Control device
    5.
    发明授权
    Control device 失效
    控制装置

    公开(公告)号:US4381835A

    公开(公告)日:1983-05-03

    申请号:US137524

    申请日:1980-04-04

    IPC分类号: G07F5/22 G07F5/24 G07F9/00

    CPC分类号: G07F5/24

    摘要: A control device for a vending machine for setting prices and storing prices in a memory with a price-setting mode, a price verification mode and a product-vending mode. In the product-vending mode, actuation of a selection switch provides a momentary pulse through the vending circuit to enable a price to be loaded into a register for subsequent comparison with accumulated credit. That pulse is so short that a product is not vended; but it is sufficiently large to keep leakage from simulating it. Switches select the locations in memory where prices are stored, and further switches are provided to set the prices in those locations. The control device automatically responds to actuation of any of these switches to shift from the product-vending to the price-setting mode. Coin tube inventory switches are provided which have a dual function, namely, effecting emptying of the coin tubes and also placing the control device in the price verification mode. The control device is also responsive to the insertion of a coin or to the pressing of the cancel sale button to automatically take the vending machine out of the price-setting or price verification mode and place it in the product-vending mode. In the product-vending mode, the availability of coins will determine which coins will be used in dispensing the change -- three dimes being used to provide thirty cents in change if the nickel tube is empty.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于自动售货机的控制装置,用于在价格设定模式,价格验证模式和产品自动售货模式下设置价格和存储价格。 在产品自动售货模式中,选择开关的启动提供通过售卖电路的瞬时脉冲,以便能够将价格加载到寄存器中,以便随后与累积信用进行比较。 那个脉搏太短,一个产品没有销售; 但是足够大以防止模拟它的泄漏。 开关选择内存中存储价格的位置,并提供另外的开关来设置这些位置的价格。 控制装置自动响应任何这些开关的致动,以从产品销售转向价格设定模式。 提供了具有双重功能的投币管库存开关,即实现对硬币管的排空以及将控制装置置于价格验证模式。 控制装置还响应于硬币的插入或取消销售按钮的按压,以自动将自动售货机取消价格设定或价格验证模式并将其置于产品售货模式。 在产品自动售货模式中,硬币的可用性将决定哪些硬币将用于分配更换 - 如果镍管为空,则使用三个暗盒提供三十分之一更改。

    Coin-handling device
    6.
    发明授权
    Coin-handling device 失效
    硬币处理装置

    公开(公告)号:US4353452A

    公开(公告)日:1982-10-12

    申请号:US137434

    申请日:1980-04-04

    IPC分类号: G07D5/08 G07F3/02

    CPC分类号: G07D5/08

    摘要: A detecting magnetic coil is mounted adjacent the authenticity-determining magnetic coil of an electronic slug rejector to distinguish between authentic coins and any copper slugs which might cause the authenticity-determining coil to produce an output which closely simulates the output which that authenticity-determining coil produces in response to authentic coins. The signal from that detecting coil is used to control the accept/reject gate of that electronic slug rejector; and it will effect movement of that gate to "accept" position in the event it detects a non-cupreous object but it will not effect such movement of that gate in the event it detects a copper slug.

    摘要翻译: 检测电磁线圈安装在电子排料器的真实性确定的磁线圈附近,以区分真实的硬币和任何可能导致真实性确定线圈产生严重模拟输出的输出的铜芯块,该真实性确定线圈 响应正宗的硬币产生。 来自该检测线圈的信号用于控制该电子塞子排出器的接受/拒绝门; 并且在其检测到非铜对象的情况下将影响该门到“接受”位置的移动,但是如果它检测到铜块,则该门将不会影响该门的移动。

    Paper currency device
    7.
    发明授权
    Paper currency device 失效
    纸币装置

    公开(公告)号:US4349111A

    公开(公告)日:1982-09-14

    申请号:US137425

    申请日:1980-04-04

    CPC分类号: G07D7/168 G07D7/04 G07D7/20

    摘要: A bill-handling device provides relative movement between a sensor and a U.S. bill or other object to permit that sensor to sense longitudinally-spaced areas on that U.S. bill or other object which correspond to areas, on authentic U.S. bills or counterfeits thereof, where significant data is found. Data which is obtained during the sensing of those areas is stored, and subsequently is analyzed to determine the authenticity and denomination of the U.S. bill--if it is one of a plurality of bills of specifically-different denominations.

    摘要翻译: 纸币处理装置提供传感器和美国纸币或其他物体之间的相对移动,以允许该传感器在该美国纸币或其他对象上感测到与真实的美国纸币或其伪造品相对应的区域的纵向间隔的区域,其中显着 找到数据。 在感测这些区域期间获得的数据被存储,并且随后被分析以确定美国账单的真实性和面额 - 如果它是具体不同面额的多个票据中的一个。

    Control device
    8.
    发明授权
    Control device 失效
    控制装置

    公开(公告)号:US4463446A

    公开(公告)日:1984-07-31

    申请号:US400059

    申请日:1982-07-20

    CPC分类号: G07F5/22

    摘要: A price-setting control device for a vending machine can be used to set prices for a number of products and to store those prices in a memory. A decimal-type visual display selectively, but simultaneously, displays a "line" number which is assigned to a given product plus the price set for that product. A line-selecting switch, rather than the customer-operated switches of the vending machine, is used to select the desired line number when the price, for the product corresponding to that line number, is to be set. Mode-controlling data for the operation of the vending machine can be stored in selected locations within the memory; and the line-selecting switch plus a price-setting switch can be used to change that data.

    摘要翻译: 用于自动售货机的价格设置控制装置可以用于设定多个产品的价格并将这些价格存储在存储器中。 选择性地,但同时显示分配给给定商品的“行”号加上为该商品设定的价格的十进制型视觉显示。 当要设置与该行号相对应的产品的价格时,使用线选择开关而不是自动售货机的客户操作的开关来选择所需的行号。 用于自动售货机的操作的模式控制数据可以存储在存储器内的选定位置; 线路选择开关和价格设定开关可用于更改数据。

    Validator for scrip
    9.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US4091271A

    公开(公告)日:1978-05-23

    申请号:US642620

    申请日:1975-12-19

    摘要: A piece of scrip is engraved or printed with groups of patterns which can be sensed by a validator for scrip and one of those groups of patterns will define a code which will permit that piece of scrip to be accepted only by a scrip validator or by scrip validators which have that same code stored therein. Two additional groups of patterns define codes which can cause that scrip validator or those scrip validators to automatically respond to the codes stored therein to actuate price-determining relays within a vending machine. Each pattern is formed by a number of spaced parallel lines, and the various patterns on a piece of scrip can be given different identities merely by changing the spacing between the trailing edges of those spaced parallel lines. The patterns in each group of patterns will be sensed in a prescribed sequence, and the sequentially-sensed patterns in any of those groups of patterns can be given various identities. As a result, the scrip validator of the present invention can accept a piece of scrip which has a given number of patterns of specifically-different identities and yet reject a piece of scrip which has those same patterns arranged in a different sequence. In this way, the present invention makes it possible to use permutations, rather than mere combinations, of potentially-usable pattern identities, and thus makes it possible to use just fifteen specifically-different pattern identities to make thirty-two thousand seven hundred and sixty different pieces of scrip. The scrip validator of the present invention stores the codes, which correspond to the codes defined by the patterns on the piece of scrip, in serially-shifted shift registers; and, as each pattern on the piece of scrip is sensed by the scrip validator, the data within the shift registers is serially shifted a plurality of times. The identity of any given pattern can be determined by three signals; and, by utilizing serially-shifted shift registers which have seven or more stages, the present invention enables each shift register to store the pattern-identifying data for at least two patterns. In addition, the serial shifting of the shift registers permits the pattern-identifying data for the various patterns to be presented in fixed sequences. Moreover, by merely changing some of the connections to the input terminals of the shift registers, it is possible to change the codes stored within those shift registers. The frequency which identifies each pattern is sensed by the combination of a digital filter and a counter; and such a combination provides a strict test of the identification of each pattern because it requires the frequency which corresponds to the spacing of the trailing edges of the lines of that pattern to match the frequency of the digital filter, and it also requires that pattern to have a minimum number of lines which have that same spacing.