JPH0412500B2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] (A) Technical Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a deposit dispensing machine, in particular, to a deposit dispensing machine, which distinguishes the denomination of deposited banknotes, and stores and deposits banknotes into a safe corresponding to the determined denomination. It relates to a deposit dispensing machine that pays banknotes.

(B) Background and Problems of the Invention It is desired that a deposit dispensing machine have a function of easily setting which safe to store deposited banknotes into and which safe to pay with banknotes.

Conventionally, in a deposit dispensing machine, as shown in the configuration diagram in FIG. 1 and the operation explanatory diagram in FIG.
When a banknote, for example, a 10,000 yen bill, is inserted into the bank, the banknote is conveyed to the discrimination section 2 and its denomination is discriminated. Control part 3
Based on the denomination signal of the discriminated banknote, for example, the ten thousand note signal, the banknote conveyance unit 4 sends a conveyance signal to the banknote conveyance unit 4, and the banknote conveyance unit 4 stores the banknote in a predetermined safe, for example, the ten thousand note safe 7.

On the other hand, when the customer inserts the cash card into the card insertion part of the deposit dispensing machine and inputs a predetermined key to request a deposit payment, for example, payment of 30,000 yen, the control unit 3 controls the amount of money requested to be paid. The denomination (10,000 bills) and number of bills (3 bills) corresponding to the banknotes are extracted from a predetermined safe by the bill conveying section 4, and are controlled to be delivered to the payment section 5 through the discriminating section 2. In the conventional deposit dispensing machine described above, after identifying the denomination of deposited banknotes, the control unit 3 stores the banknotes in a predetermined safe according to the sequence, or feeds the banknotes from a predetermined safe to a payment unit in response to a payment request. The sequence of this control section 3 was fixed. Therefore, it takes a lot of effort to change the sequence of the control section 3, and there is a problem that the administrator of the deposit dispensing machine cannot easily change the sequence of the control section 3.

In particular, in the initial period when new tickets are issued, the number of new tickets in circulation is small, so old tickets are circulated as much as possible for payment, and after the period when new tickets are in circulation in large numbers, old tickets are collected as much as possible and new tickets are used more frequently. Conventional deposit payment machines have a problem in that they cannot be easily and quickly handled in cases where payments need to be made repeatedly.

(C) Object and Structure of the Invention The present invention provides a deposit dispensing machine that stores in advance information regarding banknotes to be stored in a safe and banknotes to be dispensed from the safe, and uses this information as a deposit denomination signal or a deposit denomination signal from a discrimination unit. To enable an administrator of a deposit dispensing machine to easily set banknote circulation management conditions by reading out banknotes based on a payment denomination signal from another, storing the banknotes in a predetermined safe, or dispensing the banknotes from a predetermined safe. It is an object.
For this reason, the deposit dispensing machine of the present invention includes a discrimination section that discriminates the denomination of the banknote inserted into the deposit section, and stores the banknote in a predetermined safe based on the denomination signal from the discrimination section and at the time of payment. In a deposit dispensing machine comprising a control unit that dispenses banknotes from a predetermined safe to a payout unit, information regarding the denomination of banknotes to be stored in the safe and information regarding the denomination of banknotes to be dispensed from the safe are separately designated and input, respectively. an information storage unit that stores information input from the input unit; an information reading unit that reads predetermined information from the information storage unit based on a denomination signal from the discrimination unit; a control unit that stores banknotes in a predetermined safe based on information regarding banknotes to be stored in the safe and dispenses banknotes from a predetermined safe based on information regarding banknotes to be dispensed from the safe; The feature is that the information can be rewritten individually.

(D) Examples of the invention The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 3 shows the configuration of one embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 4 shows a detailed explanation diagram of the operation shown in FIG. 3, and FIG.
The figure shows an example of administrator input, and FIG. 6 shows an example of storage in the information storage unit. In the figure, 3' is a control unit according to the present invention, 6 is a reject safe, 7 is an A safe, 8 is a B safe, 9 is a C safe, 10 is an information storage unit according to the present invention, 11 is a CRT display unit, 12 is the key input section,
12-1 to 12-7 are key switches provided in the key input section, 13 is the name of the safe, 14 is the denomination, 1
5 represents a condition.

In FIG. 3, when a customer inserts a banknote, for example, a 10,000 yen bill, into the deposit unit 1 based on the operation guidance displayed on the CRT display unit 11, the banknote is conveyed to the validation unit 2 and its denomination is discriminated. . Based on the denomination signal of the discriminated banknote, for example, the 10,000-note signal, the control unit 3'
Reads a signal indicating the name of the safe in which banknotes are to be stored from the information storage unit 10, sends this signal to the banknote transport unit 4,
The banknote transport unit 4 stores banknotes in a designated safe.

On the other hand, when the customer inserts the cash card into the card insertion section of the deposit dispensing machine and inputs a predetermined key on the key input section 12 to request a deposit payment, the control section 3' stores the denomination and number of bills corresponding to the denomination amount, reads out from the information storage section 10 a signal indicating the name of the safe from which the banknotes are to be dispensed based on this denomination signal, and sends this signal and the number signal to the bill conveyance section 4; The banknote transport section 4 feeds out a specified number of banknotes from a specified safe through the validation section 2 to the payment section 5.

FIG. 4 shows a detailed explanation diagram of the operation shown in FIG. 3. FIG. 4A shows a case where old bills (bills that have been in circulation since before new bills were issued) are collected and new bills (newly issued bills) are circulated. That is, among the banknotes input into the deposit section 1, the new 10,000 yen bills (newly issued 10,000 yen bills) and the new 1,000 yen bills (newly issued 1,000 yen bills) are stored in the A safe 7 and the B safe 8, respectively. , store the old ticket in the C safe 9. Then, the banknotes to be paid out to the payment unit 5 are the new 10,000 banknotes in the A safe 7 and the banknotes in the bank B.
This is the new 1,000-ticket ticket from Safe 8. The old notes in the C safe 8 are collected without being delivered to the payment section 5.

Figure 4 (b) shows the case of collecting the deposited 1,000 coupons. In other words, the deposited 10,000 and 1,000 tickets are stored in the safe 7 respectively.
and the B safe 8, and pay out the ten thousand notes in the A safe 7 and the thousand notes in the C safe 9 to the payment section 5. B safe 8
The 1,000 coupons deposited will be recovered.

FIG. 5 shows an example of administrator input, and FIG. 6 shows an example of storage in the information storage unit. The case where the deposit dispensing machine of the present invention is placed in the state shown in FIG. 4A will be described below.

Administration panel (not shown) of the deposit dispensing machine of the present invention
By turning on the switch attached to the CRT 11 for setting banknote circulation management conditions, a display as shown in FIG. 5 appears on the CRT 11, which displays operation guidance during normal transactions. This indicates that denomination 14 and condition 15, which are the safe name circulation management conditions shown in 13, have been stored in the information storage unit 10 (6th
Figure A safe information). To enter denomination 14 and condition 15, press the KEY switch (12-1 to 12-
7) in sequence. For example, when inputting New 10,000 yen notes as the denomination into the A safe shown in 13, the KEY switches 12-1 and 12-2 are pressed. Similarly, if the condition is to store banknotes in and pay out from A safe, "deposit and payment"
Press the KEY switch 12-7 corresponding to .
By pressing the KEY switch as described above, "1" is stored in bit numbers 4 and 12 of the safe information in FIG. 6A. Other bit numbers are "0". Similarly, for the B safe information and C safe information, the sixth
Enter as shown. Figure 6 shows A safe information.
A state in which B safe information and C safe information have been input is shown. As a result, the banknote circulation management described in FIG. 4A is performed.

When performing circulation management of other banknotes, the denomination 14 and condition 15 may be input for the A safe, B safe, and C safe, respectively, in the same manner as described above.

Note that the reject safe 6 stores banknotes other than those stored in the A safe, B safe, or C safe. Further, in the embodiment of the present invention, there are three safes A, B, and C, but the safe is not limited to this, and any number of safes can be used.

(E) Effects of the Invention As explained above, according to the present invention, information regarding banknotes to be stored in a safe and banknotes to be dispensed from a safe is stored in advance, and this information is transmitted from a deposit denomination signal or a deposit denomination signal from a discrimination unit. Since the banknotes are read out and stored or dispensed based on the payment denomination signal from another source, the administrator of the deposit dispensing machine can easily set banknote circulation management conditions. In particular, if you want to collect old notes after a certain time when new notes are issued, or if you want to have a banknote denomination composition that matches customer demographics and timing, you can quickly and easily create banknote circulation conditions. It has an effect that can be set and changed.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Figure 1 shows the configuration of a conventional deposit dispensing machine;
The figures show an explanatory diagram of the operation of Fig. 1, Fig. 3 shows the configuration of one embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 4 shows a diagram explaining the specific operation shown in Fig. 3, and Fig. 5 shows administrator input FIG. 6 shows a storage example of the information storage unit. In the figure, 1 is a depositing section, 2 is a discrimination section, 3 is a control section,
3' is a control unit according to the present invention, 4 is a banknote conveyance unit, and 6 is a control unit according to the present invention;
is the redirect safe, 7 is the A safe, 8 is the B safe, 9
is C safe, 10 is information storage section, 11 is CRT, 1
2-1 to 12-7 are KEY switches, 13 is a safe name, 14 is a denomination, and 15 is a condition.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. A discrimination unit that discriminates the denomination of a banknote inserted into the deposit unit, and stores the banknote in a predetermined safe based on a denomination signal from the discrimination unit, and also stores the banknote from the predetermined safe at the time of payment. A deposit dispensing machine comprising a control section for dispensing banknotes into a payout section, comprising input means for separately specifying and inputting information regarding the denomination of banknotes to be stored in the safe and information regarding the denomination of banknotes to be dispensed from the safe; an information storage section that stores information input from the input means; an information reading section that reads out predetermined information from the information storage section based on a denomination signal from the discrimination section; and information stored in the safe from the information reading section. a control unit that stores the banknotes in a predetermined safe based on information regarding the banknotes to be dispensed, and dispenses the banknotes from the predetermined safe based on information regarding the banknotes to be dispensed from the safe; A deposit payment machine characterized by being rewritable.