US Patent Issued to ASAHI SEIKO on Feb. 17 for "Coin hopper, rotating body of coin hopper, and coin processing device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,432, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to ASAHI SEIKO Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Coin hopper, rotating body of coin hopper, and coin processing device" was invented by Hiroshi Abe (Saitama, Japan) and Kazuya Tanaka (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coin hopper includes a container, a base, a rotating body having separation holes for holding the coin and being disposed so as to face the base, and a control pin that is disposed in a conveyance path for the coin held by the rotating body, that comes into contact with the coin being conveyed, and that changes a moving direction of the coin. The rotating body includes a first resin r...