Medal Arrangement Device Guide Unit Abutting Parts
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional medal arrangement devices are complex, costly, and prone to instability in medal stacking due to large variations in direction, speed, and posture of medals, leading to potential clogging and increased manufacturing costs.
Innovation Solution
A medal arrangement device with a holder and supplier system that includes a guide unit with movable abutting parts to control medal movement, an annular passage for stable filling, and a simplified configuration to reduce size and costs, ensuring accurate measurement and quick supply of medals.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If medals slide down from the stocker to the rotating plate through an inclined medal passage due to their own weight, then the device structure is simplified, but large variations are generated in the direction, speed, and posture of sliding-down due to individual differences of the medals, causing the supplier of medals to become unstable
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the gravitational sliding mechanism with a mechanical transport system using a conveyor belt. The conveyor belt actively transports medals through the passage, eliminating reliance on gravity and medal individual variations. This substitution ensures uniform transport speed and posture, resolving the instability caused by varying sliding characteristics while maintaining structural efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the transport mechanism from passive gravitational sliding to active mechanical conveyance. By controlling the conveyor belt speed and engagement points, the system standardizes the speed, direction, and posture parameters of medal transport, eliminating the variations that occurred with gravity-dependent sliding.
2Productivity
If a conventional medal arrangement device with rotating plate and inclined passage is used, then medals can be transported, but the configuration and transport operation are complicated, leading to high manufacturing costs and possibility of medal clogging
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the medal transport function into a linear conveyor belt system that integrates the passage structure with the transport mechanism. This eliminates the need for separate rotating plates and inclined passages, simplifying the overall configuration while maintaining efficient medal transport capability and reducing clogging risks.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the transport operation into discrete, controlled stages along the conveyor belt path. Medals are fed, transported, and deposited in separate, manageable steps, making the operation simpler and more reliable compared to the continuous, complex rotation and sliding of conventional systems.
3Volume of moving object
If an inclined medal passage is used to allow medals to slide down, then the device can be compact, but the entire device is enlarged in order to ensure a space for installing the inclined medal passage
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses a dynamic conveyor belt system that can operate within a compact linear space, eliminating the need for large inclined passages. The conveyor belt adapts to the available space while maintaining efficient medal transport, allowing the device to be more compact without requiring extensive installation volume for angled passages.
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AI summary
A medal arrangement device and a medal game machine are disclosed. A medal arrangement device has a holder and a supplier with a medal hopper and a guide unit. A medal passage has a first medal passage part and a second medal passage part. The guide has an upstream abutting part and a downstream abutting part provided on a first side wall surface side of the first medal passage part. When one medal ejected from the medal hopper reaches a predetermined position of the downstream end portion, at least a part of the upstream abutting part and at least a part of the downstream abutting part are located in the first medal passage part to press the medal against the second side wall surface. When the medal passes through the predetermined position, the downstream abutting part retracts to an outside of the first medal passage part.