US Patent Issued to GLORY on Feb. 3 for "Coin processing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,022, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to GLORY LTD. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Coin processing apparatus" was invented by Hidekazu Tanaka (Hyogo, Japan), Hiroyuki Shimano (Hyogo, Japan), Keigo Takezawa (Hyogo, Japan) and Fumio Kibihara (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a coin processing apparatus including: a hopper that stores a coin; a taking-in unit that takes in the coin supplied from the hopper; and a hopper moving mechanism that moves the hopper, while maintaining the hopper in a horizontal state, from a position at which the hopper covers the taking-in unit to a position so that the taking-in unit is exposed."

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