US Patent Issued to JAPAN CASH MACHINE on July 21 for "Optical sensor for bill validation" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,745, issued on July 21, was assigned to JAPAN CASH MACHINE Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Optical sensor for bill validation" was invented by Taichi Sato (Osaka, Japan), Nobuo Takashima (Osaka, Japan), Kenta Yuji (Osaka, Japan), Kosuke Masuda (Osaka, Japan) and Toru Seki (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to easily assemble and exchange a reflection type optical device and their parts in an optical sensor for bill validation by fitting unitized housings into openings of partitions. The optical sensor for bill validation includes a reflection type optical device (13, 30) that has a housing (4...