ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,644, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to JAPAN CASH MACHINE Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Fraud prevention mechanism, paper sheet transport device, and paper sheet handling device" was invented by Kohei Haraguchi (Osaka, Japan) and Toru Seki (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention includes an opening/closing member, a rotary member that rotates integrally with the opening/closing member, a driving member for opening/closing member driving, that is arranged to oppose the rotary member and that is axially supported to be capable of relatively rotating with respect to the rotary member, and a drive transmission mec...