COIN DISPENSER AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THE COIN DISPENSER

摘要

A coin dispenser capable of shortening a coin delivery time and extending th e operating life of a coin delivery mechanism part by reducing the number of idle striking operations and a control method for the coin dispenser, the method comprising the steps of, based on the counted results of a deliverabl e counter for counting coins accumulated in coin tubes for each coin tube, detecting, as the idle-struck coin tube, the coin tube in which a coin is newly accumulated when the number of the accumulated coins is less than a specified quantity and, when delivering the coins, performing the idle striking operation for performing a delivery operation in the state of prohibiting the delivery of the coins from the coin tube only when the idle- struck coin tube is detected.