JPH0652441A - Cash register with banknote storage safe - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Purpose] A cash register with a cash storage safe that is suitable for the prevention of theft of large amounts of cash and efficient fund management. [Structure] A cash storage safe 5 is provided in a different place from the tray 4 of the cash register 1, and a cash transfer unit 6 is further provided between the cash register 1 and the cash storage safe 5, for a predetermined holding amount set in advance. At any time, the delivery control for collecting and replenishing the bills 15 is performed.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a technique for cash protection of a cash register for deposit / withdrawal processing at a convenience store, a store or the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, sales cash deposited in a cash register as a result of sales at convenience stores, shops, etc. is usually stored in a tray from 10,000 yen bills to 1 yen coins. However, when a large amount of sales is made, it is often the case that a large amount of cash is stored in the tray at the time just before the end of business hours, especially in stores that are open 24 hours, etc. Measures are an urgent task. Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 59-149600 discloses a device for providing crime prevention and loss prevention by providing a storage unit for storing the maximum amount of money separately from the cash drawer.

[0003]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In view of the above problems, the present invention provides a cash register which is suitable for theft prevention as well, for safe storage of cash, efficient totalization and operation of deposited sales. The purpose is to do.

[0004]

Means for solving the above problems are set forth in the claims. That is, an object of the present invention is to provide an operation unit for inputting a deposit amount and information regarding this deposit, a display unit for displaying the input content,
A print issuing unit that prints the input content and issues a receipt, a tray unit that stores the deposited cash, a cash storage safe provided at a location different from the tray unit, the tray unit and the cash storage safe It is achieved by a cash register with a banknote storage safe, which has a cash delivery means provided between the two and a control section for controlling the functions of the respective sections.

[0005]

With the above construction, it is effective to protect a large amount of cash by moving the cash in the tray section to the cash storage safe at any time, and from the inside of the tray section according to the cash amount in the tray section of the register. , Banknotes can be collected in the cash storage safe, and banknotes can be replenished in the tray section from the cash storage safe. The trigger of this collection / replenishment operation is to set the cash collection / replenishment amount in the tray section and the cash storage safe in advance, and to operate based on the set values, for example, for bill collection / replenishment. The number of sheets can be counted and recorded on the cash storage safe side.

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. FIG. 1 is a side view (a) and a front view (b) showing the external appearance and structure of a cash register with a cash storage safe according to this embodiment. The cash register 1 includes an operation unit 2 for inputting a product name, a product code, a sales amount, etc., a display unit 3 for displaying the sales amount, a deposit amount from a customer, a change amount, etc., and the display unit 3 It is composed of a print issuing unit that prints a sales date including the displayed contents and issues a receipt, and a tray unit 4 that temporarily stores cash. Further, the cash storage safe 5 is the tray section 4 of the register 1.
And a cash delivery unit 6 for delivering and receiving cash, bills collected via the tray unit 4 and the cash delivery unit 6, and
It is composed of a banknote cassette 7 that replenishes the tray section 4 with banknotes via the cash delivery section 6. The cash transfer unit 6 and the banknote cassette 7 correspond to the denominations in the tray unit 4.
a-6a-7a, 4b-6b-7b and 4c-6c-
7c, each of which is sorted and modularized by an independent transport path, and can handle not only one type of bills but also bills of multiple denominations.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a block configuration of the present embodiment. The entire apparatus is roughly divided into a cash register 1 and a cash storage safe 5, and the cash register 1 includes an operation unit 2, a display unit 3, and a receipt. Print issuing unit 10, tray unit 4,
It is composed of a power supply unit 11. The cash storage safe 5 includes a bill delivery unit 6, a bill cassette 7, a customer sensor 13, and a power supply unit 12. The cash register 1 and the cash storage safe 5 are controlled by the control unit 8 and the control unit 9, respectively, and have a delivery recording unit for recording the delivery contents of cash, which are connected to each other to exchange control information. Furthermore, as an opportunity to transfer cash between the tray section 4 of the register 1 and the cash storage safe 5, a customer sensor 13 is added,
Cash may be delivered only when the customer is not in front of the register 1.

Next, the construction and operation of the tray section 4, the cash transfer section 6, and the banknote cassette 7 will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the movement of the tray portion 4 of the register in the direction of arrow AA, and the tray portion 4 can be moved to the position C indicated by the alternate long and short dash line by operating the operation portion 2. The partition plate 14 is located at the lower portion 14b of the banknote 15 when the tray unit 4 is pulled out, but when the tray unit 4 is stored, the partition plate 14 is stopped by the stopper 16.
The banknotes 15 in the tray section 4 are moved forward as they are, and cash can be delivered at the moving position of 14a.

The cash collecting operation and the bill replenishing operation will be described with reference to FIG. The banknotes 15 in the tray section are pressed by the tray section side pressing plate 17, and the banknotes 15 are separated one by one by the rotation of the tray section 4 side pickup roller a18. The separated banknote 15 is conveyed in the direction of arrow R via the tray unit side feed roller a19 and the tray unit side guide roller a20. Conveyance path guide roller a32
The banknotes 15 conveyed through the conveyance path a31 including the bills advances into the banknote cassette 7 by the banknote cassette side feed roller a21 and the banknote cassette side guide roller a22.
The bill cassette side pickup rollers a23 store the bills in the bill cassette 7 one by one. The replenishing operation is similar to the collecting operation, and the banknotes 15 in the banknote cassette 7 are lifted by the banknote cassette side pressing plate 24, and the banknote cassette side pickup roller b25 rotates to separate the banknotes 15 one by one. The separated banknotes 15 include a banknote cassette side feed roller b26 and a banknote cassette side guide roller b.
It is conveyed in the direction of arrow S via 27. The banknotes 15 conveyed through the conveyance path b33 including the conveyance path guide rollers b34 advance into the tray section 4 by the tray section side feed roller b28 and the tray section side guide roller b29, and are conveyed by the tray section side pickup roller b30. One piece is stored in the section 4. The cash delivery section 6 is a conveyance path a located at an intermediate portion between the tray section 4 and the banknote cassette 7.
It is a banknote transport functional portion including 31, a transport path guide roller a 32, a transport path b 33, and a transport path guide roller b. These collecting and supplementing operations are similarly processed for each of the 10,000 yen ticket, the 5,000 yen ticket, and the 1,000 yen ticket.

Next, referring to FIG. 5, FIG. 6 and FIG.
The overall flow of the refill operation will be described. In addition, in order to make the explanation easy to understand, the explanation will be given separately for collection and replenishment. FIG. 5 is a flow chart of a bill collecting operation from the tray section 4 to the cash collecting safe 5. Here, the remaining bill capacity for starting the bill collecting operation is set in advance as the set value A. Specifically, the set value A may be the thickness of the bills in the tray unit 4, or may be set by the number of bills or the like. When setting by the thickness of the bill, the tray unit side holding plate 17 in the tray unit 4
It is possible to detect the height of the. When the number of bills is detected, the number of bills stored in the tray unit 4 is input at the start of business, and the number of deposits at the time of business is input each time, so that the number of bills is automatically stored in the register. It is conceivable that there is a means of managing it. In the bill collecting operation, first, the remaining bill capacity in the tray unit 4 is confirmed, and when the set value is A or more, and when the register 1 is not in operation and is in standby, the above-mentioned collecting operation is performed. Repeat until the remaining bill capacity in 4 becomes less than the set value A. When the remaining bill capacity in the tray unit 4 is not equal to or larger than the set value A, or when the register 1
If is not on standby, the process returns to the confirmation of the remaining bill capacity in the tray unit 4 and is repeated. The collection can be set not only by the set value A at the start of collection but also by the set value AA at the end of collection. That is, it is possible to set A> AA so that the collection operation is not performed frequently. In the case of setting only the set value A, for example, if the collection operation is started at the set value A and the collection is finished at (A-1) sheets, the collection operation is performed again when the next one sheet is deposited. It's a sham. If A is set to 10 and AA is set to 5, the collection will start after 10 and continue to collect until 5 are reached. I'm sorry.

FIG. 6 is a flow chart of the bill replenishing operation from the cash collecting safe 5 to the tray section 4. Similar to the collecting operation, the banknote remaining capacity in the tray portion 4 for starting the banknote replenishing operation is set in advance as the set value B. In the replenishment operation, first, the remaining bill capacity in the tray unit 4 is checked, and when the value is less than the set value B, the register 1 is on standby, and the replenishment bill is in the bill cassette 7, the bill replenishment operation is performed. , Is repeated until the remaining bill capacity in the tray section 4 becomes equal to or larger than the set value B. If the remaining banknote capacity in the tray unit 4 is not less than the set value B or if the register 1 is not on standby, the process returns to the confirmation of the remaining banknote capacity in the tray unit 4 and is repeated. If there are no supplementary bills in the bill cassette 7, an alarm indicating that there is no bill is sent to the control unit, and the operation ends. Also in the case of bill replenishment, in addition to the replenishment start set value B, the replenishment end is set by the set value BB, and by setting B <BB, it is possible to prevent the replenishment operation from being performed frequently. Also, the set value A,
The following relationships may be established among AA, B, and BB. That is, as described above, when the collection condition from the tray unit 4 to the cash storage safe 5 is A> AA and the replenishment condition from the cash recovery safe 5 to the tray unit 4 is B <BB, the replenishment end amount is the collection end amount. If it is not larger than the amount, A> BB,
AA> BB. For example, when the number of banknotes in the tray section 4 increases and A = 50, the collection to the cash storage safe 5 is started, and when AA = 15, the collection is finished. When the number of banknotes in the tray section 4 decreases to B = 5, replenishment from the cash collecting safe 5 starts, and when BB = 10, the replenishment ends.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a flow in which the bill collection operation for the cash storage safe 5 and the bill replenishment operation for the tray section 4 are integrated. As shown in the above embodiment, the cash delivery section 6
Is characterized in that it is configured such that mutual movement of cash, that is, collection and replenishment, can be performed at any time between the cash storage safe 5 and the tray section 4. further,
It is possible to add the following functions to the collecting and replenishing operations.

(1) The number of bills for collection and replenishment is counted and stored in advance to facilitate the counting work at the end of business hours and the efficiency of fund management.

(2) By presetting, bills are not replenished but only collected. However, since there is no change of 10,000 yen, 10,000 yen tickets will only be collected and will not be replenished. Although the above embodiments describe the collection and replenishment of banknotes, they can also be applied to money.

[0015]

The following effects can be obtained by implementing the present invention.

(1) Excess cash in the tray section is collected in the cash storage safe at any time, and when the cash in the cash register is insufficient, it is replenished from the cash storage safe at any time to keep the minimum cash in the tray section. It is very effective in preventing a large amount of cash theft.

(2) By counting and storing the number of collected and replenished bills in advance, the totaling work at the deadline becomes extremely easy, which is also effective in improving the efficiency of fund management.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side view (a) and a front view (b) showing an appearance of an embodiment of a cash register with a cash storage safe according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the embodiment shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing movement of the tray section of the embodiment shown in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a bill collecting operation and a bill replenishing operation between the tray unit and the bill cassette in the embodiment shown in FIG.

5 is a diagram showing a flow of a bill collecting operation of the embodiment shown in FIG.

6 is a diagram showing a flow of a bill replenishing operation of the embodiment shown in FIG.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a flow in which the collecting operation and the replenishing operation of FIGS. 5 and 6 are integrated.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Cash register 2 ... Operation part 3 ... Display part 4 ... Tray part 5 ... Cash storage safe box 6 ... Cash transfer part 7 ... Banknote cassette 8 ... Register side control part 9 ... Cash storage safe side control part 10 ... Receipt print issuing part 11 ... Register-side power supply unit 12 ... Cash storage safe-side power supply unit 13 ... Customer sensor 14 ... Partition plate 15 ... Banknote 16 ... Stopper 17 ... Tray unit side holding plate 18 ... Tray unit side pickup roller a 19 ... Tray unit side feed roller a 20 ... Tray section side guide roller a 21 ... Banknote cassette side feed roller a 22 ... Banknote cassette side guide roller a 23 ... Banknote cassette side pickup roller a 24 ... Banknote cassette side holding plate 25 ... Banknote cassette side pickup roller b 26 ... Banknote cassette side feed roller b 27 ... Banknote cassette side guide roller b 28 ... Tray Side feed rollers b 29 ... tray portion side guide roller b 30 ... tray portion side pickup roller b 31 ... conveying path a 32 ... transport channel guide roller a 33 ... conveying path b 34 ... transport channel guide rollers b

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Takuya Kaizu 4-3, Surugadai Kanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo Inside Hitachi Techno Engineering Co., Ltd.

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. An operation unit for inputting a deposit amount and information relating to the deposit, a display unit for displaying the input content, a print issuing unit for printing the input content and issuing a receipt, and storing the deposited cash. A tray section, a cash storage safe provided in a place different from the tray section, a cash delivery means provided between the tray section and the cash storage safe, and a control section for controlling the functions of the respective sections. A cash register with a banknote storage safe characterized by having. 2. The cash register with a banknote storage safe according to claim 1, wherein the storage safe and the cash delivery means are provided with a sorting means which is modularized corresponding to the received denomination. 3. The control unit includes a delivery recording unit that records the cash delivery content.
Cash register with the banknote storage safe described.