ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,967, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to ASAHI SEIKO Co. LTD (Tokyo).
"Coin conveyance device and coin hopper" was invented by Minoru Enomoto (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coin conveyance device that feeds multiple coins stored in a storage container one by one and conveys the fed coin upward uses rotating bodies including pushing bodies for pushing a coin. The pushing bodies which are arranged opposed to each other about the center of rotation of each rotating body each include: a metallic pin that comes into contact with a coin; and a resin-made support protrusion that supports the pin. The support protrusion incl...