G07F COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS (coin sorting G07D3/00; coin testing G07D5/00; )
Introduced: September 1968
Description
Apparatus designed to operate or dispense goods/services only upon receipt of payment in the form of coins, tokens, or equivalent monetary instruments. Covers coin-operated machines including vending machines, turnstiles, parking meters, laundry equipment, and similar devices that validate and accept payment before enabling function. Encompasses the mechanical, electromechanical, and electronic mechanisms for coin detection, validation, storage, and actuation of dispensing or access control systems. Related currency-handling systems using banknotes or electronic payment methods are classified separately in adjacent categories.
Title
Titles differ between systems:
IPC: COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
CPC: COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS (coin sorting G07D3/00; coin testing G07D5/00; )
Full Title
Full titles differ between systems:
COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS (coin sorting G07D3/00; coin testing G07D5/00; )
Additional Content IPC
Glossary
Coins coin covers also tokens or the like. Freed is a synonym for actuated. Dispensing is a synonym for delivering.
Limiting references
Coin sorting Coin testing
Application references
Using a coded card, e.g. smart card carrying an integrated chip, to authorise calls from a telephone set Coin-freed or check-freed prepayment telephone systems
IPC and CPC are identically structured here. All 9 subcodes exist in both systems.
4 shared codes have differing titles between IPC and CPC.
Child Classifications
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- G07F 1/00 Coin inlet arrangements; Coins specially adapted to operate coin-freed mechanisms IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G07F 11/00 Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles +3 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G07F 13/00 Coin-freed apparatus for controlling dispensing or fluids, semiliquids or granular material from reservoirs IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G07F 15/00 Coin-freed apparatus with meter-controlled dispensing of liquid, gas or electricity +2 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G07F 17/00 Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services +5 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G07F 19/00 Complete banking systems; Coded card-freed arrangements adapted for dispensing or receiving monies or the like and posting such transactions to existing accounts, e.g. automatic teller machines (data processing equipment for bank accounting G06Q40/02) since 1990 +1 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G07F 7/00 Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus +1 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G07F 9/00 Details other than those peculiar to special kinds or types of apparatus (coin inlet arrangements G07F1/00; coin-actuated mechanisms, interlocks G07F5/00) +5 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
Top Applicants
Top Applicants (IPC)
Class G07,2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- TOSHIBA TEC CORPORATION 3,312
- IGT US 2,296
- SHENZHEN YIHUA COMPUTER COMPANY 2,232
- SHENZHEN YIHUA TIME TECHNOLOGY COMPANY 2,144
- SHENZHEN YIHUA FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE INSTITUTE 2,055
- ARISTOCRAT TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRALIA AU 1,651
- SGCC(STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA) 1,586
- OKI ELECTRIC IND COMPANY 1,497
- GLORY 1,424
- FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES US 1,379
Top Applicants (CPC)
Class G07,2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- IGT US 2,432
- FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES US 2,266
- TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION 1,843
- ARISTOCRAT TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRALIA AU 1,612
- TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION JP 1,554
- HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY KR 1,482
- TOSHIBA TEC CORPORATION JP 1,364
- TOSHIBA TEC CORPORATION 1,295
- KIA MOTORS CORPORATION KR 1,235
- CAPITAL ONE SERVICES US 1,229