US Patent Issued to FUJITSU FONTECH, FUJITSU FRONTECH SYSTEMS on Feb. 24 for "Bill handling apparatus and failure determination method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,018, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to FUJITSU FONTECH Ltd. (Tokyo) and FUJITSU FRONTECH SYSTEMS Ltd. (Gunma, Japan).

"Bill handling apparatus and failure determination method" was invented by Keita Ishiguro (Inagi, Japan) and Rompei Sugawara (Inagi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a bill handling apparatus 1, a vibration detection sensor 51A to 51H detects a vibration of a field repair unit 3, 4, 6, 7a to 7d, 8, and a determining unit 52 determines whether there is a failure in the field repair unit 3, 4, 6, 7a to 7d, 8 based on the vibration detected by the vibration detection sensor 51A to 51H. For example, the determinin...