JPH02270096A - Cash transacting device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To lower the height of a cash transacting device by laterally arranging units and controlling operation by a control part so that a conveying body can be moved along the arrangement of the units. CONSTITUTION:A cash transacting device 100 is composed by providing a cash receiving / paying-out unit 3, counting unit 2, housing unit (part) 1, conveying body 4 and control part 6, which controls the operation of respective parts, in respectively independent constitution. A safe box 5 is provided separately from the housing unit (part) and the respective units are laterally arranged. The conveying body 4 is moved among the respective units along the arrangement of the respective units and currency is exchanged. Thus, the height of the whole device can be suppressed to be low and since the units are independently constituted, the control can be easily changed even when modules are arbitrarily arranged.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a cash transaction device in which the arrangement of units constituting the device is devised.

[Conventional technology]

Conventional devices of this type (ATM, CD) are time-open [31
There is one disclosed in No.-291370.

In this example, the units forming the H-place are stacked vertically, and the overall height of the device is generally high.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

In the above-mentioned conventional technology, the height of the entire device increases, requiring a special booth or corner where there are no store staff, and thus customers and store staff are separated. Additionally, if new needs arise in terms of equipment installation locations or transaction formats, the external dimensions, movement range, and movement form of the conveyor will change, but in order to respond to these changes, it will take a relatively short time to develop the software. Although it is possible to make changes, it would take a considerable amount of time to design a new hardware, which would ultimately result in poor responsiveness to needs.

An object of the present invention is to reduce the height of the device by arranging the internal units that make up the device side by side, and to make it possible to change or add the units that make up the device in a short time. It provides a trading device.

[Means to solve the problem]

In order to achieve the above object, the units constituting the cash transaction device are arranged side by side, and a carrier moves between each unit along the arrangement of the units to deliver and receive currency. Further, the units constituting the apparatus are constructed independently so that the arrangement can be easily changed, and data regarding the arrangement of the units is held within the apparatus, and the operating range of the conveyor and the delivery operation are controlled using this data.

[Effect]

Since the units constituting the cash transaction device are arranged side by side, the height of the entire device can be kept low. In addition, since the above-mentioned units are configured independently so that the operating range and delivery operation of the transport body are controlled by data in the control section, the control can be easily changed even if the modules are arranged in an arbitrary arrangement.

〔Example〕

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

As shown in FIG. 1, the cash transaction device 100 includes a deposit/withdrawal unit 3, a counting unit 2, a storage unit (section) 1, a conveyor 4 (details are shown in FIG. 2), and the above-mentioned. It is configured to include a control section 6 that controls the operation of each section. Note that 5 is a safe provided separately from the storage unit (section). Each unit is placed side by side.

The person withdrawal section 3 has an upward hopper 3a for a user to insert banknotes 10 during a deposit transaction and for the user to receive banknotes 10 during a payment transaction. It is arranged at the upper front position so as to be rotatable in the direction of the arrow and in three opposite directions.

The counting section 2 is configured to inspect and count banknotes during a transaction, and is arranged in parallel with the cash withdrawal section 3. As shown in FIG. 3, when the banknotes to be transacted are conveyed, the counting section 2 includes a main conveyance path through which the banknotes are conveyed, and a main conveyance path through which the banknotes are conveyed. 2f, a discriminator 2g for discriminating banknotes passing through the main conveyance path, and an inspected hopper 2c for sorting and holding the discriminated banknotes 10 by type.

2d and 2e.

The receiving hoppers 2a and 2b take in banknotes of 10,000 yen, 5,000 yen, and 1,000 yen, respectively, during a payment transaction, and transfer all types of deposited banknotes to one hopper during a deposit transaction. I am trying to import it from The discriminator 2 detects the denomination of the banknote when the banknote passes by the main conveyance '#J2f, and also detects whether the banknote is a genuine banknote,
Furthermore, by detecting dirt, damage, etc. on banknotes, it is possible to distinguish between banknotes that can be used for transactions and banknotes that cannot be used. The inspected hoppers 2e and 2d hold 1,000 yen and 5,000 yen banknotes and 10,000 yen banknotes by type, respectively, during deposit transactions, and 2C holds counterfeit banknotes, unusable banknotes, etc. is deposited and retained. Further, the inspected hopper 2e is configured to deposit and hold bills to be paid all at once, regardless of the type of bills, at the time of a payment transaction.

The storage section 1 has an operational storage 1 ( ), a replenishment storage 1a, and a loading/recovery storage 1c, and the operational storage 1b has storage hoppers a and b for storing banknotes by type, and is arranged horizontally in parallel with the counting section 2. The hopper a stores thousand yen banknotes to be used for payment transactions, and hopper 1 stores banknotes of 10,000 yen to be used for payment transactions and deposited banknotes of 10,000 yen. They are arranged in the vertical direction in the order of a and b in the storage part 1.

As shown in FIG. 2, the conveyor 4 has a hand 4a that collectively holds banknotes, and a drive source that moves the hand 4a between the cash dispensing section 3, the counting section 2, and the storage section 1. The banknotes are conveyed to each department based on the type of transaction.

That is, the robot hand 4a has a pair of fingers that can be opened and closed, and these fingers are attached to a drive body 4b that can move in the front/backward X direction and the up/down X direction, and this drive body 4b is a frame body surrounding the robot hand 4a. It is fixed at 4c. The frame body 4c is mounted so as to be movable in the left and right Y directions along the flow shaft 4d and the guide shaft 4e. The screw shaft 4d is the motor 4
f, and moves the frame 4C in the Y direction.

Note that a driving motor is built in the driving body 4b. When banknotes are put into the hopper 3a of the cash-withdrawal section 3 during a deposit transaction, the hand 4a collectively grips and receives the banknotes from the cash-withdrawal section 3 that moves in the direction of the arrow.
The banknotes are moved and conveyed as they are to the take-in hopper 2a of the counting section 2 and handed over. Each inspected hopper 2 is checked by the counting unit 2.
e * The banknotes are photographed separately at 26. The banknotes on each of the inspected hoppers 2e+2d are received by the hand 4a, and are conveyed to the corresponding hoppers a and b of the operational warehouse 1b of the storage section 1 and handed over.

In addition, at the time of payment transaction, when the payment amount is specified on the operation unit (not shown), the hopper a of the operation warehouse 1b of the storage section 1,
The banknotes are collectively gripped and taken out by the hand 4a from b, and are conveyed to the corresponding take-in hoppers 2a and 2b of the counting section 2 and handed over.

When the counting unit 2 sends out a number of banknotes corresponding to the specified amount to the inspected hopper 2e at once, the sent out banknotes are conveyed by the hand 4a to the hopper 3a of the cash withdrawal unit 3 and handed over. There is. In that case, in order to shorten the time required for payment transactions, the hand 4a sends the operation storage 1b of the storage section 1 to each intake hopper 2a, 2b of the counting section 2 in advance.
hopper b.

The banknotes in a are transported, and in the case of a deposit transaction, the banknotes in the take-in hopper 2b are transported to the corresponding hopper a of the operational warehouse ib of the storage section 1 and temporarily returned.

Also, in case you run out of banknotes, it will automatically display Han F' 4
A carries out banknotes from the replenishment warehouse 1a, loads them into the hopper 2b of the counting section 2, and after counting, stacks them in the hopper 2d and replenishes them into the safe 5 (thousand yen notes).

Furthermore, at the start of operation, a loading and collecting warehouse IC is inserted in place of the operating warehouse 1b, and the loading and collecting warehouse 1c has a large banknote capacity, thereby shortening the time. At the end of the operation, the operating range of the hand 4 & of the carrier 4 automatically changes when the safe is taken in and taken out, as described above. Further, the safe 5 can be added to or deleted from the safe 5, so that it can immediately respond to the user's requests.

As shown in FIG. 4, the control unit 6 stores data for controlling the operations of each part of the device in a memory 6a.
The movement range of the carrier 4 is also set. In the example shown in FIG. 1, since each unit is arranged horizontally, the data in the memory 6a is such that the frame 4c is moved in the horizontal direction within the range from the storage section 1 to the safe 5, Or, if there is a change in the arrangement or addition of a safe, the content will be changed to allow movement within the range of the change or addition. As another example, all the storage parts 1a to IC are arranged horizontally as shown in FIG.
FIG. 6 shows units arranged circumferentially around the carrier 4. The content of this data may be changed manually using the keyboard when changing or adding units, or sensors may be placed on each unit and carrier, and the data may be moved through the carrier before operating the device. The carrier may automatically detect the position of each unit in this manner. FIG. 7 shows a low type (low height type) transaction device that employs the configuration shown in FIG. 1. The storage cabinets 1a and 1b, the counter 2, the safe 5, and the cash withdrawal section 3 are arranged horizontally with respect to the carrier 4, and the height of the device is reduced. Furthermore, at the top, a bankbook printing, slip/card mechanism section 7 is installed, and it is a low type device equipped with a CRT 8 for customer guidance. The overall appearance is as shown in FIG. That is,
For the customer, there are only the cash withdrawal section 3, the CRT 8 for guidance, the bankbook entry/exit lower a, and the card entry/exit lower B, but the height H can be made considerably lower than that of the conventional system. Therefore, in the case of a bank, for example, even if this ATM is buried in a counter at the boundary between customers and bank employees, it does not protrude above the counter, so it is possible to interact with customers. Due to mechanization, there is now more space available for this burial site, and counters can be used. Additionally, there is no need for a special booth or a special installation corner in the store, which is required in the past, resulting in lower equipment costs.

〔Effect of the invention〕

According to the present invention, since the height of the cash transaction device is reduced, it can be installed at a counter between a customer and a clerk, and special equipment such as an automatic machine corner or booth is not required. This allows the store staff to interact with customers and improves service quality.

Furthermore, since the operating range of the transport body changes in response to changes in the arrangement of the units, it is possible to quickly respond to the needs of the user in accordance with the operation mode.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. 1 is an explanatory diagram of the internal structure of an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is an explanatory diagram of the structure of the carrier, Fig. 3 is an explanatory diagram of the structure of the counting section, and Fig. 4 is a block diagram of the entire device. , FIGS. 5 and 6 are explanatory diagrams of other embodiments of the unit mounting method,
FIG. 7 is an internal external view of the device mounted state according to the embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 8 is also an external view of the cash transaction device.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A deposit/withdrawal unit for depositing and withdrawing currency into and out of the device;
A counting unit that counts currency, a storage unit that stores currency, a carrier that transports and delivers currency between each of the above units in a predetermined order according to the type of transaction, and What is claimed is: 1. A cash transaction device comprising: a control section for controlling an operation, wherein the units are arranged side by side, and the control section controls the operation so that the conveyance body moves along the arrangement of the units. 2. The automated teller machine according to claim 1, wherein the control section holds data in accordance with the arrangement of each unit, and controls the moving range and delivery operation of the carrier according to this arrangement data.