JPH0447355B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Application of the Invention] The present invention relates to a banknote processing apparatus, and more particularly to a banknote processing apparatus having a banknote reversal mechanism.

[Background of the invention]

As described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-open No. 59-198250, the conventional device is designed to transfer banknotes that are both face-up and face-down in a single conveyance path.
The banknotes are conveyed one by one at regular intervals, the front and back of the banknotes are discriminated on the conveyance path, all face-down banknotes are reversed, and all the banknotes are turned face-up, and then the banknotes are sent out one by one at regular intervals in the conveyance order on the above-mentioned conveyance path. It is structured as follows.

However, in general, the display reversing mechanism leaves the banknotes in a somewhat free and unstable state, so the banknotes that are reversed by the front-back reversing mechanism may be damaged, such as bent or torn, or skewed or skewed on the conveyance path. Even if the conveyance quality such as bill spacing is acceptable for face-up banknotes, the above-mentioned face-down banknotes with damage and conveyance quality below a certain level may accumulate or get caught in the front-back reversing mechanism. However, there were problems in that the conveyance quality of banknotes sent out from the front-back reversing mechanism deteriorated, and failures such as jams occurred within the front-back reversing mechanism.

[Purpose of the invention]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a banknote handling device that allows some amount of face-down banknotes to be mixed in when arranging banknotes face up, while preventing deterioration in banknote conveyance quality and occurrence of jams and other problems caused by the front-back reversing mechanism. It is to be.

[Summary of the Invention] The present invention distinguishes the front and back sides of banknotes that are separated and conveyed one by one, controls a sorting machine according to the determination result, sends the face-up banknotes to the face-up banknote transport path, and transfers the face-up banknotes to the face-up banknote conveyance path. The face-down banknotes are sorted to be sent to a face-down banknote conveyance path, and the face-down banknotes are turned over by a front-back reversing mechanism provided in the face-down banknote conveyance path to face up, and the face-up banknotes are separated from the face-up banknotes conveyed through the face-up banknote conveyance path. This is in a banknote processing apparatus that merges and accumulates banknotes, and the banknote processing apparatus is equipped with a discrimination control means, and the means detects the damage state of the banknotes such as folding or tearing, and the conveyance quality state of the banknotes such as skew, deviation, and spacing. and when a determination result that the condition of the banknote is worse than a predetermined condition and the banknote is a face-down banknote, the sorter is controlled to send the banknote as it is to the face-up banknote transport path. It is configured like this.

By having such a configuration, the present invention can prevent deterioration in the conveyance quality of banknotes due to the front-back reversing mechanism and prevention of problems such as jams.

However, when aligning banknotes face up, there is a risk that face down banknotes may be mixed in, although this is rare.
Even if face-down banknotes are mixed in, there is no practical problem, and there is little deterioration in service to customers. In contrast, the occurrence of a failure in a device causes the greatest deterioration in service to customers and impairs reliability, so the present invention has a sufficiently significant effect.

[Embodiments of the invention]

FIG. 1 shows a side view of a bill recycling automatic transaction device as an embodiment of the device of the present invention. In the figure, one banknote is placed at the bottom of deposit/withdrawal port 1, which serves as both a deposit and withdrawal port.
A banknote separation mechanism 2 is provided that separates and sends out banknotes one by one. Also, on the left side of the deposit/withdrawal port 1, there is an impeller stacking mechanism 3 that sequentially stacks the bills conveyed one by one.
is provided, and a bill separating mechanism 2 and an impeller accumulating mechanism 3 are provided.
They are separated by a push plate 2a. Also,
At the left end of the device shown in the first figure, there are provided an impeller accumulation mechanism 4 for temporarily accumulating deposited banknotes, a separator 5, a replenishment safe 6, and a non-return banknote storage box (hereinafter referred to as "reject box") 7. Banknote classification mechanism 2
During the conveyance path to the impeller accumulation mechanism 4, the denomination of the banknote, authenticity, front and back, damage condition such as folding, tearing, etc., and conveyance quality such as skew, deviation, and spacing of the banknote are determined. Based on the results, the bill sorting machine 10 described below
A discrimination control means 8 for controlling a to 10g is provided, and a banknote thickness detection mechanism 9 is provided in front of the discrimination control means 8 on the conveyance path. In addition, there is a storage box 1 at the bottom of the device that stores 1,000 yen bills and 10,000 yen bills.
1 and 12 are provided, and impeller accumulation mechanisms 13 and 14 are provided above the storage boxes 11 and 12, respectively. A front/back reversing mechanism 15 is provided at the top of the impeller accumulating mechanism 4, and a replenishment safe 6, storage boxes 11, 12
Bill separating mechanisms 16, 17, 18 are provided at the top of each
Each is provided.

Conveyance path 20 through which banknotes are sent out from the discrimination control means 8
A banknote sorting machine (hereinafter referred to as "gate") 10g is provided at the position where the banknotes are separated into conveyance paths 21 and 22,
A gate 10a is located at a position where the conveyance path 21 is separated into conveyance paths 23 and 24, and a gate 10a is located at a position where the conveyance path 21 is separated into conveyance paths 23 and 24, and a conveyance path 24 is separated into conveyance paths 25 and 26.
A gate 10b is provided at a position separating the two. A gate 10c is provided at a position where the conveyance path 22 is separated into conveyance paths 27 and 28.
Gates 10d and 10e are provided in the middle of the conveyance paths 29 and 30 following the banknotes, respectively, corresponding to the banknote taking devices of the impeller stacking mechanisms 13 and 14, respectively. Furthermore, a gate 10f is provided corresponding to the banknote taking-in position of the front/back reversing mechanism 15 on the conveyance path 23.

2A and 2B show the structure of an embodiment of the impeller accumulating mechanism 4, the separator 5, the replenishment safe 6, and the bill separating mechanism 16. In the figure, the impeller stacking mechanism 4 is composed of an impeller 40 and a stopper 41, and the banknotes stored in each blade of the rotating impeller 40 are separated from the blades by the stopper 41 and placed on the separator 5. Accumulate. The separator 5 is supplied with banknotes from the impeller integrated circuit 4 and is driven by the moat 42 to move in the direction of arrow A. When withdrawing money from the replenishment safe 6, the arm 44 driven by the motor 43 moves in the direction of arrow B and retreats to the position shown by the broken line in FIG. 2B. A press plate 46 is provided inside the replenishment safe 6 and is driven by a motor 45 to move vertically in the figure, and banknotes are placed on the press plate 46. The banknote separation mechanism 16 is the feed roller 4
7. Gate roller 48, pick-up roller 49
When the push plate 46 of the replenishment safe 6 moves upward and the bill is pushed up to the upper opening of the replenishment safe 6, the stopper 41 and the pick-up roller 49 are moved to the position shown by the broken line in FIG. 2A. The pick-up roller 49 comes into contact with the banknote. Due to the rotation of the pick-up roller 49, the banknotes are sequentially moved from the upper part to the feed roller 47 side, and the banknotes are picked up by the feed roller 47, which rotates in synchronization with the pick-up roller 49 using a high friction member at a predetermined rotation angle portion of the outer periphery. The sheets are taken out one by one at regular intervals and sent to the conveyance path 31 shown in the first diagram. In addition, the impeller accumulation mechanism 3, 13, 1
4 each has the same configuration as the impeller accumulation mechanism 4,
The storage boxes 11 and 12 each have the same structure as the replenishment safe 6, and the banknote separation mechanisms 17 and 18 each have the same structure as the banknote separation mechanism 16.

The gate 10a shown in FIG. 3A is the discrimination control means 8.
For example, a DC solenoid driven in response to a control signal is used to switch between a first state shown by a solid line and a second state shown by a dashed-dotted line. In the state shown in FIG. 1, the banknotes transported in the direction of the arrow on the transport path 21 are delivered to the transport path 24, and in the second state, the banknotes are transported in the direction of the arrow on the transport path 21.
The remaining banknotes are delivered to the conveyance path 23. gate 1
0b, 10c, and 10g are also the above gates 10a.
It has a similar structure.

The gate 10f shown in FIG. 3B is the discrimination control means 8.
For example, a DC solenoid driven in response to a control signal is used to switch between a first state shown by a solid line and a second state shown by a dashed-dotted line. In the first state, the gate 10f is removed from the conveyance path 23, and the banknotes conveyed in the direction of the arrow on the conveyance path 23 are transferred to the conveyance path 23.
3, the banknotes are guided by the side 32a of the guide member 32 through the face-up banknote transport path 23a at the rear, and are supplied to the impeller stacking mechanism 4 without being turned over. In addition, in the second state, the gate 10f protrudes into the conveyance path 23, and the banknotes conveyed through the conveyance path 23 are guided by the gate 10f and sent out to the front-back reversing mechanism 15 through the face-down banknote conveyance path 23b. Ru.
Thereafter, the banknote bounces off the terminal end 15a of the front/back reversing mechanism 15, is held between the rollers 33, 34, and is sent out from the front/back reversing mechanism 15.
2b and is supplied to the impeller stacking mechanism 4 in an inverted state. Note that the gate 10d, 1
Each gate 0e has the same structure as the gate 10f described above.

Next, the operation of the automatic transaction device shown in FIG. 1 will be explained. At the start of banking operations, banknotes are loaded into the replenishment safe 6 in preparation for withdrawal. After that, when a predetermined key (not shown) is operated, the banknotes in the replenishment safe 6 are separated one by one by the banknote separation mechanism 16, and are sent out to the conveyance path 31 at a predetermined interval. , conveyance path 24, gate 10
b, are sequentially supplied to the discrimination control means 8 through the conveyance path 26; The banknotes, whose denomination, damage, conveyance quality, etc. have been determined by the discrimination control means 8, pass through the conveyance path 20, the gate 10g, and the conveyance path 22, and reach the gate 10c. 1
The banknotes determined to be less than 100% are stored in the reject box 7 via the conveyance path 28 through the gate 10c controlled by the discrimination control means 8. Further, banknotes determined to have good damage and transport quality (level 1 or higher) are transported through the transport paths 27 and 29 from the gate 10c,
Of these, thousand yen bills are accumulated in the impeller accumulation mechanism 13 through the gate 10d controlled by the discrimination control means 8, and then stored in the storage box 11, and ten thousand yen bills are stored at the gate 10d.
d, passes through the gate 10e controlled by the discrimination control means 8 on the conveyance path 30, is accumulated in the impeller accumulation mechanism 14, and then stored in the storage box 12.

Next, when depositing money, when a banknote is inserted into the deposit/withdrawal port 1 and a predetermined key (not shown) is operated, the deposited banknote is separated one by one by the banknote separation mechanism 2 and sent to the conveyance path 35 at a predetermined interval. This conveyance path 3
5 to the discrimination control means 8. During this deposit, the bills separated one by one and sent out to the conveyance path 35 at predetermined intervals enter and pass through the discrimination control means 8, and the discrimination control means 8 detects each supplied bill as shown in FIG. Execute the determination control process shown in FIG.
In FIG. 4, the discrimination control means 8 detects a banknote and discriminates the authenticity, denomination, front and back, damage, and transportation quality of the banknote (step 40). Here, damage refers to bending, tearing, etc. of banknotes, and conveyance quality refers to skewing, shifting, bill spacing, etc. of banknotes. If the deposited banknotes have enough damage and transport quality to withstand the return of used banknotes for withdrawal, they are determined to be at damage level 1 and transport quality level 1, respectively, and if the banknotes are at damage level 1 and transport quality level 1, respectively. Even if the front and back sides are reversed, it will stay or get caught in the front and back reversal mechanism 15.
Those that are good enough to not cause jams are determined to be damage level 2 and conveyance quality level 2, respectively.

It is determined in step 41 whether the above determination result indicates whether the banknote is genuine or false, and if it is true, it is determined whether the banknote is determined to be face up (step 42). If it is determined that the damage is face up, it is determined whether the damage level is 1 or higher (step 43). If the damage level is 1 or higher, it is determined whether the conveyance quality level is 1 or higher (step 44), and if the conveyance quality level is 1 or higher, the gate 10a is turned on and the second state (step 45), and then gate 1
0f is turned off to set the first state shown by the solid line in FIG. 3B (step 46). Furthermore, the gate 10c is controlled to select the conveyance path 22 when the process shown in FIG. 4 is executed. As a result, the banknotes are transferred from the discrimination control means 8 to the conveyance path 20, the gate 10g, and the conveyance path 2.
1, gate 10a, conveyance path 23, gate 10f,
It is supplied to the impeller stacking mechanism 4 through the conveyance path 23a without being turned over, and is temporarily stacked on the separator 5.

If it is determined in steps 43 and 44 that the damage is worse than level 1 or transport quality level 1, or if it is determined to be false in step 41, the process moves to step 47, where the gate 10a is turned off and turned off. The first state is set. Furthermore, the gate 10b is controlled to select the conveyance path 25 when the process shown in FIG. 4 is executed. As a result, the banknotes are transferred from the discrimination control means 8 to the conveyance path 20, the gate 10g, the conveyance path 21, the gate 10a, the conveyance path 24, the gate 10b, and the conveyance path 2.
5 and is supplied to the impeller accumulation mechanism 3 through the push plate 2a.
are accumulated on the left side.

If it is determined in step 42 that the item is face down, it is determined whether the damage determination result is level 1 or higher (step 48), and if the damage level is 1 or higher, it is further determined whether the damage level is 2 or higher. is determined (step 49). If the damage level is 2 or higher, it is determined whether the conveyance quality level is 1 or higher (step 50). If the conveyance quality level is 1 or higher, it is further determined whether the conveyance quality level is 2 or higher (step
51), gate 1 if the conveyance quality level is 2 or higher.
0a is turned on to bring it into the second state (step 52), and gate 10f is turned on to bring it into the second state (step 53). As a result, the banknotes are transferred from the discrimination control means 8 to the conveyance path 20 and to the gate 10.
g, the conveyance path 21, the gate 10a, the conveyance path 23, the gate 10f, the conveyance path 23b, and the front-back reversing mechanism 15, and are supplied to the reversed impeller accumulating mechanism 4, where they are accumulated on the separator 5. Further, if it is determined in step 51 that the conveyance quality level is less than 2, and if it is determined in step 49 that the damage level is less than 2, the process moves to step 45. As a result, although the banknotes are face down, they are stacked on the separator 5 through the face-up conveyance path 23a without being reversed. If it is determined in step 50 that the transport quality level is less than 1, and if it is determined in step 48 that the damage level is less than 1, the process moves to step 47. Thereby, the banknotes are accumulated on the left side of the push plate 2a.

In this way, for face-down banknotes whose damage level is 1 or more but less than damage level 2, and whose conveyance quality level is 1 or more but whose conveyance quality level is less than 2, the banknotes that are face-down are passed through the face-up banknote conveyance path 23a. Since the banknotes are supplied to the impeller accumulating mechanism 4, the conveyance quality of the banknotes sent out from the front/back reversing mechanism 15 is improved without causing any accumulation or catch in the front/back reversing mechanism 15, and the paper money is jammed within the front/back reversing mechanism 15. This prevents the occurrence of such troubles, reduces the risk that the banknote processing device will stop operating, and improves the operational reliability of the device.

When the process shown in FIG. 4 is completed for all banknotes inserted into the deposit/withdrawal port 1, the push plate 2a moves to the position further left of the banknotes stacked by the impeller stacking mechanism 3, as shown by the broken line in FIG. After the banknotes have been moved up to 1, the banknotes are moved in the direction of arrow C and the accumulated banknotes are pushed out to the deposit/withdrawal port 1 and refunded.

The saver takes out the refunded banknote and compares it with the displayed deposit amount to confirm. Confirmation key (not shown)
When the banknotes are operated, the banknotes accumulated on the separator 5 are separated one by one by the banknote separation mechanism 16 and sent out to the conveyance path 31 at predetermined intervals. It is supplied to the discrimination control means 8 through the path 26. The banknotes whose denomination, conveyance quality, etc. have been determined by the discrimination control means 8 arrive at the gate 10c through the conveyance path 20, the gate 10g, and the conveyance path 22, and the banknotes other than the 1,000 yen bill and the 10,000 yen bill and the conveyance quality level are Bills determined to be less than 2 are stored in the redirect box 7 via the conveyance path 28 through the gate 10c controlled by the discrimination control means 8. It goes without saying that the banknotes whose conveyance quality is determined to be less than level 1 may be stored in the reject box 7. Banknotes determined to have conveyance quality level 1 or above are conveyed through conveyance paths 27 and 29 through gate 10c, and among these, 1,000 yen bills are accumulated in impeller accumulation mechanism 13 through gate 10d controlled by discrimination control means 8. Rear storage box 11
The ten thousand yen bills pass through the gate 10d and are accumulated in the impeller accumulation mechanism 14 through the gate 10e controlled by the discrimination control means 8 on the conveyance path 30, and then stored in the storage box 12.

Next, when withdrawing money, when you specify the withdrawal amount and operate a predetermined key (not shown), the 1,000-yen bills in the storage box 11 according to the withdrawal amount are separated one by one by the bill separation mechanism 17. from the conveyance path 36 to the conveyance paths 30, 38,
35 to the discrimination control means 8. Following this, ten thousand yen bills corresponding to the withdrawal amount in the storage box 12 are separated one by one by the banknote separation mechanism 18 and sent to the conveyance path 38 at predetermined intervals, and from this conveyance path 38 to the conveyance path 35. It is supplied to the discrimination control means 8 through. The banknotes whose denomination etc. have been determined and confirmed by the discrimination control means 8 are transferred from the conveyance path 20 to the gate 10.
g, is supplied to the impeller accumulation mechanism 3 through the conveyance path 21, gate 10a, conveyance path 24, gate 10b, and conveyance path 25, and is accumulated on the left side of the push plate 2a. Here, the banknotes whose denominations are determined to be undiscernible by the discrimination control means 8 are transferred to the conveyance path 20 and transferred to the conveyance path 20 by the gate 10g.
2 and 28, and is stored in the redirect box 7. Thereafter, 1,000 yen bills or 10,000 yen bills corresponding to the undistinguished banknotes are taken out from the storage box 11 or 12, passed through the discrimination control means 8, and accumulated on the left side of the push plate 2a. When the stacking of banknotes corresponding to the withdrawal amount is completed, the push plate 2a moves further to the left of the stacked banknotes to the position shown by the broken line in FIG. 1, and then moves in the direction of arrow C to deposit and withdraw the stacked banknotes. Push out and withdraw money to mouth 1.

In the above embodiment, the banknotes before being supplied to the impeller accumulating mechanism 4 at the time of depositing and withdrawing money are reversed; however, the present invention is not limited to this. A structure in which the front and back sides are reversed may also be used. Further, in the above embodiment, the discrimination control means 8 discriminates the authenticity, denomination, front and back, damage, and conveyance quality level 1 and level 2 of the banknote. The present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned embodiment, and the gate 10f may be controlled by determining whether the front/back surface is reversed or not by a determination sensor provided at the front of the front/back reversing mechanism 15.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, the banknote processing apparatus according to the present invention is configured such that when the damaged state of the face-down banknote and the conveyance quality state are worse than a predetermined state, the face-down banknote is sent out as it is to the face-up banknote conveyance path, so that the banknote processing apparatus according to the present invention Without deteriorating the conveyance quality of the banknotes sent out,
The occurrence of failures such as jams is prevented, the risk that the device will stop operating is reduced, and operational reliability can be improved.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a side view of one embodiment of the device of the present invention, and FIG.
3 and 3 are diagrams for explaining the structure of each part of the apparatus shown in FIG. 1, and FIG. 4 is a flowchart of one embodiment of the processing performed by the discrimination control means shown in FIG. 1. 1...Deposit/withdrawal port, 2, 16-18...Banknote separation mechanism, 3,4,13,14...Impeller accumulation mechanism,
8...Discrimination control means, 10a to 10g...Banknote sorting machine (gate), 15...Front and back reversal mechanism, 23a
. . . Front-facing banknote transport path, 23b… Back-facing banknote transport path.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1 Distinguish the front and back sides of the banknotes that are separated and conveyed one by one, and control the sorting machine according to the determination result to send the face-up banknotes to the face-up banknote transport path and send the face-down banknotes to the face-down banknote transport path In a banknote processing device, the banknotes are sorted so that the banknotes are sorted, the face-down banknotes are turned over by a front-back reversing mechanism provided in the face-down banknote transport path to face up, and the banknotes are merged with the face-up banknotes conveyed through the face-up banknote transport path to be stacked. , a discrimination control means is provided for discriminating the damaged state of the banknote, such as folding or tearing, and the conveyance quality state, such as skewing, shifting, spacing, etc. of the banknote, and the discrimination control means determines whether the condition of the banknote is worse than a predetermined condition. 1. A banknote processing apparatus characterized in that said banknote processing apparatus is configured to control said sorting machine so as to determine that the banknote is a face-down banknote, and to send the banknote as it is to a banknote conveyance path face-up.