JPH0620216Y2 - Banknote handling device - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Outline] The present invention relates to a bill handling device, and for the purpose of classifying bills to be stored in a collecting unit, it is possible to discriminate between a bill insertion slot and an inserted bill for authenticity. It has a storage mechanism that stores only banknotes in a storage unit by denomination, and a recovery unit that stores a banknote that has been discriminated as a false banknote by the storage mechanism and a banknote that has been delivered from the storage unit in a recovery unit that has a capture mechanism. The apparatus is provided with a paper box in which paper sheets of a predetermined size are set in advance, a means for feeding the paper sheets and a means for conveying the fed paper sheets to the take-in mechanism of the collecting section, When the support input operation of is performed,
Between the banknotes already collected by the recovery mechanism and the banknotes fed and stored from the recovery section, or between the banknotes and between banknotes of different denominations of the banknotes stored, between the paper boxes, It is configured to feed out and insert the paper sheets.

[Industrial application field]

The present invention relates to a handling operation device such as a cash handling device that is operated by a user to carry out a transaction, and is particularly suitable for distinguishing bills stored in a collecting unit at the time of scrutiny after the end of business and at the time of forgetting and collecting. Regarding improvement of handling equipment.

[Conventional technology]

Recently, as a part of computer banking system, automated teller machine (AT), which is a transaction operation device, is used at a counter of a financial institution.
M) and the like are widely used.

These devices are equipped with a medium reading device, and are usually operated by using a credit card (hereinafter referred to as a card) or a cash passbook to carry out various transactions such as cash deposits and payments. Scrutiny of the total amount of transactions and necessary investigations are conducted by scrutiny at the end of the day's operations.

Hereinafter, the conventional method will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 3 by taking ATM as an example.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view illustrating an ATM to which the present invention is applied,
2 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line AA 'in FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line BB' in FIG.

As shown in FIG. 1, the ATM is a card slot 1 on the upper right side of the front panel of the device and a passbook slot 2 for inserting a passbook 11 on the left side.
The cash dispenser 3 is provided on the right side of the lower operation panel, the keyboard 4 for designating the transaction of savings and the like, the key for inputting the personal identification number and the transaction amount, and the display 5 for displaying the operation contents to the customer are provided in front of it. There is a bill insertion slot 6 and a cash withdrawal slot 3 on the left side of the same.

Inside the device, as shown in FIG. 2, a read / write unit 13 and a passbook 11 for reading and writing the magnetic stripe of the passbook 11 to the rear of the upper passbook insertion slot 2 and to the right in the figure.
And printing section 1 for printing transaction details on journal paper 20
4 are provided.

In the central part of the device, there are a primary discrimination section 21 for discriminating the authenticity, denomination and front / back of the inserted banknotes 10 and a secondary discrimination section 23 for discriminating denominations, and the banknotes 10 are lined up on the right side. A pool section 22 for temporarily pooling is provided, and a banknote storage box 24 and a reject box 25 are provided in the lower part of the apparatus.

At the lower end of the storage box 24, a payout unit 31 for paying out the banknote 10 is provided.
Is provided. Below the payout port 3, payout bills 1
An eject pool unit 26 that temporarily pools 0s and arranges them is provided. Further, as shown in FIG. 3, a read / write unit 13 'for reading and writing the magnetic stripe of the card 17 and a printing unit 15 for printing the transaction contents on the receipt are provided behind the upper card insertion slot 1 and to the right in the figure. It is provided.

A control unit 18 is arranged at the right end of the lower portion of the device.

In addition, a feed roller that travels the banknotes 10 is provided on each of the transport paths, and the pool unit 22 and the reject box 2 are provided.
5. Ring belts 27a to 27g are fitted to the feed rollers for feeding the bills to the eject pool 26, so that the bills 10 can be fed stably.

With this configuration, an example of using this device will be described in the case of depositing and paying. First, when a customer deposits money, he / she presses the savings button on the keyboard 4 to indicate his intention, and then according to the operation guide display on the display 5, the passbook is displayed. When 11 is inserted into the passbook slot 2, the magnetic stripe on the back side of the passbook is read by the read / write unit 13 and the banknote 10 is inserted into the banknote slot 6 after the account number and the like are confirmed. The device is a banknote 10
The true and false denominations and the front and the back are discriminated by the primary discriminating unit 21 and abnormal bills are paid out along the route indicated by solid line arrows B and K in the drawing.
The bills 10 are returned to the pool section 22 with the front and back aligned with the route of arrow A and arrow C or D, and the amount of money is counted and displayed on the display 5.

When the customer confirms that the amount of money is the same as the amount of money to be inserted and responds by pressing the confirmation button on the keyboard 4, the bill 1
0 is sent from the pool unit 22 to the secondary discrimination unit 23 by the route of arrows E and F, and after the denomination is identified, it is stored in the storage box 24 by the route of arrows G and H, and the deposit amount is stored in the passbook 11. The transaction contents are printed and printed on the journal and wound up in the apparatus, and the passbook 11 is returned from the passbook slot 2 to complete the transaction.

If the customer presses the deposit cancellation button, the banknote 10 will be in the pool section 2
It will be returned from the route of arrows J and K from 2. When depositing using the card 17 without using the passbook 11, a receipt is issued.

When paying out cash, push the payout button, insert the card 17 into the card insertion slot 1, insert the passbook 11 into the passbook slot 2, and enter the password and the payout amount. A specified amount of banknotes 10 is paid out from a payout unit 31 below 24, and the banknotes 10 are paid out from the cash payout opening 3 along the routes of arrows L, F, and K. At this time, the customer moves in the direction of arrow N so that the banknote 10 can be easily taken,
Sent to. If the customer forgets to pick it up, it is collected in the reject box 25 via the storage route after a predetermined time (for example, 60 seconds).

During this time, the card 17 is read and confirmed by the read / write unit 13 ', the transaction contents are printed on the passbook 11 and the journal paper 20, the journal paper 20 is wound up by the device, and the passbook 11 is returned from the passbook slot 2. . A receipt is issued when the card 17 is dispensed without the passbook 11 being inserted.

In such an ATM, banknotes 10 stored by deposit
Is used for payment, and when there is a shortage, bills 10 may be replenished. Therefore, after business hours, a scrutiny will be conducted to settle the total transaction amount for one day. This is because the banknotes 10 in the storage box 24 are fed out by denomination and sent to the reject box 25 by an input operation of a scrutiny instruction button on the operation panel (not shown in the figure of the control unit 18).
Then, the reject box 25 is removed from the device, the banknotes 10 are counted, and the amount of the banknotes and the amount of the replenished banknotes set in the storage unit 24 prior to the transaction are shown in the figure of the device. Make sure to sign the total deposit amount and the total payment amount of the counter not. This scrutiny may be conducted to investigate the cause even when a transaction trouble occurs during business hours.

[Problems to be solved by the device]

At the time of scrutiny, in the reject box 25, the banknotes 10 that have already been rejected by the discrimination during the transaction and the banknotes 10 that have been forgotten at the time of payment are stacked without distinction, and are sent from the storage box 24 to this. Bills 10 of different denominations are stacked.

Therefore, when the reject box 25 is detached from the apparatus and the banknote 10 is inspected, there is a problem that it takes time to inspect because the bills 10 are indistinguishable.

An object of the present invention is to solve the above problem, and to provide a bill handling apparatus capable of distinguishing bills stored in a collecting unit at the time of close inspection after the end of business.

[Means for Solving the Problems]

The present invention relates to a bill insertion slot, a storage mechanism for discriminating authenticity of inserted bills and storing only genuine bills in a storage unit by denomination, and a collection unit having a retrieval mechanism for storing the fake bills. In a device having a collecting mechanism for storing the bills discriminated from and the bills fed from the storage section, a paper box in which paper sheets of a predetermined size are preset, a means for feeding the paper sheets, and the feeding means. And a means for transporting the collected paper sheets to the take-in mechanism of the collecting section, and when a detailed inspection instruction input operation is performed, the banknotes already collected by the collecting mechanism and the banknotes fed out from the storing section are stored. In the banknote handling device characterized in that the paper sheets are fed out from the paper box and inserted between the banknotes to be inserted, or between the banknotes and between banknotes having different denominations of the banknotes to be stored. is there. By doing so, the purpose can be achieved.

[Action]

When a detailed inspection instruction input operation is performed, the paper sheets are unwound from the paper box and conveyed to the collection mechanism of the collection unit, and between the banknotes already collected by the collection mechanism and the banknotes unwound from the storage unit. Alternatively, the fed-out paper sheets are inserted between the bills and between the bills of different denominations to be accommodated.

As described above, since the paper sheets are inserted between the bills stored in the collecting unit by using the taking-in mechanism of the collecting unit, the bills can be sorted by the simple mechanism and the scrutiny can be efficiently performed.

〔Example〕

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. 4 and 5. FIG. 4 is a side view of a bill handling apparatus showing an embodiment according to the present invention, and FIG. 5 is a block diagram of FIG. The same parts as those in FIGS. 1 to 3 are designated by the same reference numerals.

In FIGS. 4 and 5, the paper box 7 holds an insert sheet 8 therein. At the lower end of the paper box 7, there is provided a feeding unit 9 that drives the insertion sheet 8 by a signal f of the control unit 18 and feeds it. Then, the close inspection command 12 is issued as a signal f by the input operation of the close inspection command button on the operation panel (not shown) of the control unit 18.

Further, the insertion sheet 8 fed out from the feeding unit 9 is conveyed to the bill collecting feed roller (take-in mechanism) in which the ring roller 27f is fitted, and is stored in the reject box 25 through the route M.

In FIG. 5, the solid line is the route of the banknote 10 at the time of deposit, the dotted line is the route of the banknote 10 at the time of payout, the broken line is the route of the banknote 10 at the time of close inspection, the two solid lines are the route of the insertion paper 8, and the dashed line is the signal. Indicates the route.

With such a configuration, when the total amount of transactions for one day is to be settled after the end of business hours, when the signal f is issued by the button operation of the operation panel of the control unit 18, the feeding unit 9 at the lower end of the paper box 7 is used. One sheet of insertion paper 8 is fed out and fed into the reject box 25. The collected banknotes 10 have already been collected in the reject box 25, and the inserted sheet 8 is stacked thereon. Next, the feeding unit 31 at the lower end of the bill storage box 24 is driven to feed the bills 10 in the bill storage box 24 by denomination, pass through the secondary discrimination unit 23, and are fed to the reject box 25.

In this way, since the banknotes 10 stored in the reject box 25 before the close inspection and the banknotes 10 sent from the storage box 24 for the close inspection can be distinguished by the insert paper 8, the reject box 25 is removed from the device for the close inspection. Work can be done quickly.

The denomination can be easily distinguished by sending the insert paper 8 when the denomination is switched when the denomination is switched from the storage box 24 to the reject box 25. Also, during the transaction, 10 cash bills
Also, when the rejected banknote 10 is forgotten to be removed by the secondary discrimination section 23 of the dispensed banknote 10 and the rejected banknote 10 is forgotten to be taken into the reject box 25, the insertion paper 8 is folded so that the distinction becomes more detailed and detailed. You can investigate.

[Effect of device]

As described above, the present invention is a special device for taking in the paper sheets fed from the paper box to the collecting section by feeding the paper sheets from the paper box and conveying them to the bill collecting collection mechanism. No need for a mechanism, by a simple means using a take-in mechanism for collecting bills, between the bills already fed into the reject box and the bills fed out from the bill storage box, and between the fed bills, Alternatively, the paper money is inserted between the banknotes and the denomination-type banknotes that have been sent to separate the collected banknotes, which has the effect that the inspection can be performed efficiently. The effect is that if you forget to take the bills and insert them into the reject box, the bills that have been forgotten can be distinguished and useful for investigation when trouble occurs. A.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a perspective view illustrating an ATM to which the present invention is applied,
2 is a sectional view taken along the line AA ′ in FIG. 1, FIG. 3 is a sectional view taken along the line BB ′ in FIG.
The figure is a side view of a bill handling apparatus showing an embodiment according to the present invention,
FIG. 5 is a block diagram of FIG. In the figure, 3 is a cash payout slot, 6 is a bill slot, 7 is a paper box, 8 is an insertion sheet, 9 is a payout section, 10 is a banknote, 21 is a primary discrimination section, 23 is a secondary discrimination section, and 24 is a A bill storage box, 25 is a reject box.

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Claims (2)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. A bill insertion slot, a storage mechanism for discriminating authenticity of the inserted bills to store only genuine bills in a storage unit by denomination, and a collection unit having a retrieval mechanism that is false by the storage mechanism. In a device having a collection mechanism for storing bills discriminated from bills and bills fed from the storage section, a paper box in which paper sheets of a predetermined size are preset, means for feeding the paper sheets, and the feeding means. A means for transporting the collected paper sheets to the take-in mechanism of the collecting section is provided, and when an instruction input operation for scrutiny is performed, the banknotes already collected by the collecting mechanism and the bill are taken out from the storing section. A bill handling apparatus, wherein the paper sheets are fed out from the paper box and inserted between the bills to be accommodated. 2. When a scrutinizing instruction input operation is performed, the denominations of the banknotes already collected by the recovery mechanism and the banknotes fed and stored in the storage section and of the banknotes stored are different. The bill handling apparatus according to claim (1), characterized in that the paper sheets are fed out from the paper box and inserted between the bills.