JPH07220131A - Banknote release and collection mechanism - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] (Corrected) [Purpose] Adopting a mechanism that drives a part of the guide that constitutes the stack space of banknotes to be paid to customers to push the banknotes that have been forgotten into the collection box. A bill ejection and collection mechanism that enables simplification of the method. [Structure] Banknotes 18 to be paid out to a customer are stacked in a banknote stacking space, and then a cam 16 is driven in a direction of an arrow 17 to open a shutter 7 to be discharged to a customer. At this time, the guide C13 supported by the fulcrum 20 of the guide C support member 19 is
The shutter 7 opens in conjunction with the opening of the shutter 7. When the customer forgets to take out the payout bill 18, the cam 16 is driven in the direction of the arrow 21,
After closing the shutter 7 and the guide C13, the cam 16
By driving in the direction of arrow 21, the guide C support member 19 rotates, the guide C13 moves in the direction of the collection box, and the payable bill 18 is sent into the collection box.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a bill discharging and collecting mechanism of an automatic cash handling apparatus having a function of paying out bills to a customer and collecting bills forgotten by the customer into a collecting box. , Particularly, by driving a part of a guide forming a space for stacking payout banknotes and pushing the forgotten banknotes into the recovery box, a banknote recovery mechanism is realized by performing an operation for recovering the forgotten banknotes. The present invention relates to a bill discharging / collecting mechanism suitable for being easily configured.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional banknote discharging and collecting mechanism of an automated teller machine uses a conveyor belt, a conveyor roller, or a mechanism for sandwiching a banknote to collect a banknote that a customer has forgotten to collect. The operation method was to move to the box.

[0003]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In the above prior art,
In order to realize the function of collecting uncollected banknotes, the handling of the conveyor belt that conveys the banknotes, the mechanism for switching the conveyor path,
Alternatively, a mechanism for holding and transporting bills is required, and the components of the bill discharging and collecting mechanism are complicated. Moreover, since a plurality of actuators are required to drive the above-mentioned mechanism, the control system thereof, such as the combination of the operations of the respective actuators, is complicated.

The present invention employs a mechanism for driving a part of a guide forming a stack space of payout bills to push a forgotten bill into a collection box, thereby simplifying the mechanical portion and also of the guide. It is an object of the present invention to simplify the control system by configuring the mechanism so that the driving and the opening / closing operation of the shutter of the bill outlet are performed by one actuator.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, in the present invention, a part of a guide constituting a stack space of payout bills can be driven so that the bills in the space can be manipulated. . Also, driving the above guide,
The opening and closing operation of the shutter of the bill outlet is performed by one actuator. Further, the operation timings of the shutter and the guide were set so that the driving directions of the actuators were the same in the operation of closing the shutter and the operation of pushing the bills into the collection box, and the driving of the guide was performed after the shutter closing operation.

[0006]

With the above arrangement, when the customer forgets to take out the dispensed banknote, the banknote ejection / collection mechanism closes the shutter and drives a part of the guide forming the stack space of the banknote to collect the banknote. Push it into the box and perform the recovery operation.
Further, when performing the above-mentioned forgotten banknote collecting operation, it is possible to shift to the banknote collecting operation by further driving the actuator in the same direction after the shutter closing operation.

[0007]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. Figure 1
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 1, the bill paying mechanism 1 drives the separating unit 3 to feed out bills of the amount requested by a customer from a cash cassette 2 to a conveying path 4 to deposit bills in a bill discharging and collecting mechanism 5. , The banknote stack space 6 is stacked. The stacked bills can be received by the customer by opening the shutter 7. After that, when the customer forgets to take all or some of the banknotes, the shutter 7 is closed and the guide 8 forming the banknote stack space 6 is driven to move the forgotten banknotes into the forgotten banknote collection box 9. .

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the operation of the embodiment. As shown in FIG. 2B, the banknotes 18 to be paid out to the customer are moved in the direction of the arrow 10 on the transport path 4 and the banknote stack space 6 constituted by the guides A11, B12, C13 and D14 Stuck inside. After that, the cam 16 is driven in the direction of arrow 17 to move the cam 16 to the position shown in FIG.
By opening the shutter 7, the customer can receive the payout bill 18 as shown in FIG. At this time, the guide C13 supported by the fulcrum 20 of the guide C support member 19
Opens in conjunction with the opening of the shutter 7. When all of the payout bills 18 are taken out by the customer, the cam 16 is moved to the arrow 21
Drive in the direction of the shutter 7 and, as shown in FIG.
By closing the guide C13, the bill stack space 6 is reconfigured in preparation for the next payment operation.

When the customer forgets to take out the dispensed banknote 18, the cam 16 is driven in the direction of arrow 21, the shutter 7 and the guide C13 are closed, and then the cam 16 is further driven in the direction of arrow 21. As shown in FIG. 2 (c), the guide A11 and the guide B12 move to open a bill moving space up to the collection box, the guide C support member 19 rotates, and the guide C13 moves in the collection box direction. The payment bill 18 is sent into the collection box.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing the external appearance of the automatic teller machine 22. In this figure, the customer inserts the card into the card insertion / ejection slot 23 of the automatic teller machine 22,
When the customer operating unit 25 is operated according to the guidance display of the guidance display unit 24 to input the desired amount of money, the personal identification number, etc., the automatic cash payment apparatus 22 receives a bill from the bill receiving slot 26 and a card from the card insertion / ejection slot 23. The statement slips are discharged from the statement slip exit 27. Here, the bill receiving opening 26, the statement slip exit 27, and the card insertion are inserted so that the bill slip exit 27 and the card insertion / discharge opening 23 interfere with each other in the virtual upper space 28 of the receipt opening just above the bill receipt opening 26.・ Outlet 2
By arranging 3 respectively, when the customer receives the bill, attention can be paid to other mediums such as the statement slip and the card, so that it is possible to prevent forgetting to remove each medium.

[0012]

As is apparent from the above description, the present invention has the following effects. That is, by adopting a mechanism that drives a part of the guide forming the stack space of the dispensed banknotes to push the forgotten banknotes into the collection box, the mechanism section can be simplified.

Further, the control system can be simplified by constructing the mechanism so that the drive of the guide and the opening / closing operation of the shutter of the bill outlet can be performed by one actuator.

Further, by providing a receipt port for a statement slip, a card and other media necessary for automatic transaction just above the opening of the bill receipt port for the customer to receive bills, when the customer receives the bills, Be careful of the medium and prevent forgetting to remove the medium.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an operation of the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an embodiment relating to the arrangement of the mechanism of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Banknote payment mechanism, 2 ... Cash cassette, 3 ... Separation unit, 4
... conveyance path, 5 ... banknote release / collection mechanism, 6 ... banknote stack space, 7 ... shutter, 8 ... guide, 9 ... forgotten banknote collection box, 10 ... arrow, 11 ... guide A, 12 ... guide B, 13 ... guide C, 14 ... Guide D, 15 ... Cam fulcrum, 16 ... Cam, 17 ... Arrow, 18 ... Disbursed bill, 19 ... Guide C support member, 20 ... Support point,
21 ... Arrow, 22 ... Automatic payment device, 23 ... Card insertion / ejection slot, 24 ... Guide display section, 25 ... Customer operation section, 26 ... Banknote receiving slot, 27 ... Details slip exit, 28 ... Receiving slot upper space

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A space for temporarily stacking banknotes to be paid out to a customer is provided, a shutter that can be opened and closed is provided in a part of the space, and the customer can take out the banknote by opening the shutter. If the customer forgets to take some or all of the bills, the bill discharging and collecting mechanism of the automatic cash handling apparatus has a function of collecting the bills remaining in the space in the collecting box after closing the shutter. In, in the case where a drive mechanism for driving the position or angle of the guide forming the space is provided and it becomes necessary to recover the forgotten banknote,
A bill discharging and collecting mechanism, characterized in that by driving a part of the guide, the forgotten banknotes are pushed into the recovery box to perform a recovery operation for the forgotten banknotes. 2. In the bill discharging and collecting mechanism, the shutter and the guide are driven by using one actuator, and the shutter is closed and the guide is driven to push the bill into the collecting box. Up to the operation, the drive direction of the actuator is made to coincide, and further,
By setting the operation timing of the shutter and the guide mechanism so that the guide is driven after the shutter closing operation, when the banknotes that have been forgotten to be collected need to be collected, they are moved in the same direction after the shutter closing operation. The bill discharging / collecting mechanism according to claim 1, wherein the bill discharging / collecting mechanism can shift to bill collection by driving an actuator. 3. A bill discharging mechanism of an automatic cash handling apparatus for paying out bills to a customer, a statement slip, a card and other media necessary for automatic transaction just above an opening of a bill receiving slot where the customer receives bills. A bill discharging / collecting mechanism, which is provided with a receiving opening for paying attention to the above-mentioned other medium when the customer receives the bill, and prevents the user from forgetting to take the medium.