US Patent Issued to ASAHI SEIKO on Sept. 8 for "Coin handling apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,453, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ASAHI SEIKO Co. LTD (Tokyo).

"Coin handling apparatus" was invented by Masayoshi Umeda (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a coin handling apparatus not requiring a wide work area with easy maintenance. In view of the above, a first door is arranged on a surface on one side of a coin handling apparatus and a second door is arranged in the first door. The first door forms dispensing paths for coins discharged from coin hoppers housed in the coin handling apparatus with the second door, and is a partition plate separating a space for housing the coin hoppers from the dispens...