Coin testing apparatus
CA 2064729 C · Owner: Mars Incorporated · Inventors: Waite, Timothy Peter
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A coin testing apparatus is provided in which two oscillating magnetic fields interact with a coin and these interactions are monitored to test for the acceptability and/or the presence of a coin. The fields are associated with respective inductive coils which have a common core so arranged that not more than a minor proportion of the field of one coil interacts with the other coil. In a preferred embodiment one of the two coils encircles the other which , provides a very compact two-field coin sensing arrangement. In same embodiments one coil encircles the other but they have respective core elements.
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- Filed August 9, 1990 and granted October 5, 1999. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended August 9, 2010.
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