1. A coin depositing and dispensing machine comprising:
a coin acceptance port, accepting coins from an outside of a machine body;
a coin ejection port, from which coins are ejected to the outside of the machine body;
a conveying device, having a coin passage which is common to conveying coins accepted in the coin acceptance port and to conveying coins to be ejected to the coin ejection port, and conveying, one by one, coins in the common coin passage;
an identifying unit, identifying types of coins conveyed by the conveying device; and
a plurality of accommodating and ejecting units, having a rotating disk, rotatable in a tilted orientation in which an upper portion is tilted toward a back face direction, a hopper, accommodating coins at a top face side of the rotating disk, and a coin outlet, through which coins are sent out from an upper circumferential region of the rotating disk to the common coin passage of the conveying device, and the accommodating and ejecting units accepting, in accordance with identification results of the identifying unit, coins accepted in the coin acceptance port from the outside of the machine body, accommodating the accepted coins in a non-aligned state according to type, and ejecting the accommodated coins, one by one, from the coin outlet.
2. A coin depositing and dispensing machine comprising:
a coin acceptance port, accepting coins from the outside of the machine body;
a coin ejection port, from which coins are ejected to the outside of the machine body;
a conveying device, having a coin passage which is common to conveying coins accepted in the coin acceptance port and to conveying coins to be ejected to the coin ejection port, and conveying, one by one, coins in the common coin passage;
an identifying unit, identifying types of coins conveyed by the conveying device; and
an accommodating and ejecting unit, having a coin outletinlet through which coins are output or input to or from the common coin passage of the conveying device, accepting, in accordance with identification results of the identifying unit, coins accepted in the coin acceptance port from the outside of the machine body, accommodating the accepted coins in a non-aligned state, and ejecting the accommodated coins, one by one, from the coin outletinlet.
3. A coin depositing and dispensing machine according to claim 2, further comprising:
a pooling and feeding unit, receiving, accommodating, and pooling coins, accepted into the coin accepting port from the outside of the machine body, and feeding the pooled coins one by one to the conveying device.
4. A coin depositing and dispensing machine according to claim 3, further comprising:
a controller, driving the conveying device in a first direction when coins are fed from the pooling and feeding unit and accommodated in the accommodating and ejecting unit, and driving the conveying device in a second direction, different from the first direction, when coins are fed from the accommodating and ejecting unit and ejected to the coin ejection port.
5. A coin depositing and dispensing machine according to claim 4. wherein
the conveying device comprises: a first passage portion, disposed from one side toward another side of the machine body; a return passage portion, returning from a terminal end of the first passage portion toward the one side of the machine body; and a second passage portion, disposed from a terminal end of the return passage portion toward the one side of the machine body and having a terminal end facing the coin ejection port;
the identifying unit is disposed in the first passage portion, and
a plurality of the accommodating and ejecting units are disposed in the first passage portion at a downstream side in the conveying direction with respect to the identifying unit when the conveying device is driven in the first direction.
6. A coin depositing and dispensing machine according to claim 5, wherein
an accommodating and ejecting unit is also disposed in the second passage portion.
7. A coin depositing and dispensing machine according to claim 5 wherein
the identifying unit is disposed in the first passage portion, and
a rejection sorting mechanism, sorting out coins not identified as being normal coins according to the identification result of the identifying unit, is disposed at a downstream side in a conveying direction from the identifying unit when the conveying device is driven in the first direction.
8. A coin depositing and dispensing machine according to claim 3, further comprising:
a memory unit, memorizing numbers of coins according to type; and
a controller, performing, with the pooling and feeding unit and the accommodating and ejecting unit, mutually between which coins can be moved by the conveying device and through the identifying unit, a detailed check of a number of coins accommodated in the accommodating and ejecting unit by making coins be fed one by one from the accommodating and ejecting unit, the fed coins be identified by the identifying unit and memorized by the memory unit, and identified coins be accommodated in the pooling and feeding unit, and, after all of the coins in the accommodating and ejecting unit have been moved to the pooling and feeding unit, all of the coins in the pooling and feeding unit be fed one by one and accommodated back in the accommodating and ejecting unit.
9. A coin depositing and dispensing machine according to claim 2, further comprising: a temporary storage unit, temporarily storing coins; and
a controller, making coins, which, among the coins accepted into the coin accepting port from the outside of the machine body, are identified as normal coins by the identifying unit, be temporarily stored in the temporary storage unit until approval and confirmation of depositing and making stored coins be fed from the temporary storage unit after approval and confirmation of depositing.
10. A coin depositing and dispensing machine according to claim 2 and further comprising:
a sorting member, sorting coins, conveyed by the conveying device, with respect to the accommodating and ejecting unit in accordance with the identification results of the identifying unit.
11. A coin depositing and dispensing machine according to claim 2, wherein
the conveying device comprises: a cyclic coin passage; and an endless conveyor, enabled to move along the coin passage and having a plurality of projections, pushingly conveying coins one by one in the coin passage.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A switchable hydraulic lash adjuster comprising:
(a) an outer cylindrical housing having a first internal, axial, cylindrical blind bore;
(b) an inner cylindrical housing slidably mounted at an open end of the first bore, the inner housing having a second internal, axial, cylindrical blind bore;
(c) a lash adjuster piston slidably mounted at an open end of the second bore;
(d) a lost motion spring mounted in the first bore between a bottom of the inner housing and a closed end of the first bore;
(e) a radial hole extending through a side wall of the outer housing;
(f) an inner indent in a side wall of the inner housing;
(g) a ball housed in the radial hole and radially movable between a locked position where the ball engages the indent and the radial hole so that the inner housing is locked to the outer housing and an unlocked position where the ball is in the radial hole and disengages from the indent so that the inner housing is unlocked from the outer housing;
(h) a piston axially, movably mounted outside the outer housing, the piston having a radial bearing surface and a radially outer indent, the piston axially movable on the outside of the outer housing between a first position where the bearing surface pushes the ball into engagement with the inner indent and the ball is in the locked position and a second position where the outer indent engages the ball and the ball disengages from the inner indent and the ball is in the unlocked position; and
(i) a ball return spring housed on a side wall of the first bore as the radial hole and urging the ball into the unlocked position.
2. The adjuster of claim 1, wherein
the outer housing has an axial groove in which the piston is mounted.
3. The adjuster of claim 1, wherein
a piston spring is positioned at an end of the piston and the spring urges the piston into the first position.
4. The adjuster of claim 1, wherein
the piston is a cylindrical ring that encircles the outer housing.
5. The adjuster of claim 1, wherein
two ball return springs are positioned at the radial hole, one at an axial top and the other at the axial bottom of the radial hole.
6. The adjuster of claim 1, wherein
the side wall of the first bore has a radial groove to the house the ball return spring.
7. The adjuster of claim 1, wherein
the radial hole is a plurality of radial holes, each with a ball.
8. The adjuster of claim 7, wherein
the piston is a cylindrical ring that encircles the outer housing and acts on all of the balls.
9. The adjuster of claim 8, wherein
a piston spring is positioned at an end of the piston, encircles the outer housing and urges the piston into the first position.
10. The adjuster of claim 5, wherein
the side wall of the first bore has two radial grooves, one radial groove to house one ball return spring and the other radial groove to house the other ball return spring.