JPH1049751A - Register adjustment system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To automatically process even register adjustment provided with the automatic receiving and paying machine of money and to improve register adjustment efficiency by adding an inputted additional money amount and an already discharged change amount and calculating a new change amount. SOLUTION: A control part 60 is provided with a money receiving control part 61, a money paying control part 63 provided with a new change discharge control part 62 and a new change calculation means 64. Then, after the input of the additional money amount by a numeric key 9 made possible by the operation of the additional money button 10 of an additional money reception permitting means, an establishing key for establishing the money amount is operated and new change is discharged. That is, in the case that additional money is present, when the establishing key is pressed, the money amount for which the amount of the additional money is added to the money amount already discharged as the change before is calculated and a discharge processing is performed by the new change discharge control part 62. Thus, even after a purchase charge is received and the change is discharged, the additional money presented by a customer can be received.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a cashier settlement system in a cashier such as a supermarket or a convenience store, and more particularly to a cash register such as a POS register connected to a coin depositing / dispensing machine or a banknote depositing / dispensing machine. The present invention relates to a cashier settlement system that mechanically performs withdrawal and receipt of money.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a checkout place such as a supermarket or a convenience store, a drawer for storing money is provided under a POS register. , The change amount is calculated and displayed, and the cashier reads out the change from the drawer by hand while looking at the display and hands it to the customer.

However, in recent years, a coin dispensing and dispensing machine and a banknote that can mechanically perform a deposit and withdrawal process of money, instead of a drawer manually processed by a cashier, for the purpose of eliminating mistakes in the transfer of money and quickly taking out change. Deposit and withdrawal machine PO
A settlement system connected to the S register has been developed.
For example, a system disclosed in JP-A-6-274743 has been proposed.

[0004] The banknote pay-in / pay-out machine constituting the above system is
A deposit port for inputting a deposit bill, a dispensing / reject port for dispensing a dispensing bill and a deposit reject bill, a deposit identification unit for identifying the denomination, authenticity, etc. of the deposited bill, and a double transport of the dispensing bill. A withdrawal discriminating unit for discriminating etc., a recirculating stacker capable of storing 1,000 yen and 5,000 yen bills which can be fishing bills among the deposited bills, and capable of being sent out as fishing bills, and a fishing bill among the deposited bills. A storage stacker for storing a withdrawal reject banknote that is determined to be double-conveyed or the like out of a 10,000-yen banknote and a 1,000-yen / 5,000-yen banknote sent out from the recirculation stacker, and a transport unit that transports the banknote between respective components And a control unit for performing a depositing process and a dispensing process based on a command from a POS register. The coin dispensing and dispensing machine has a dispensing determining unit which is a discriminating unit when dispensing. The same structure as the above banknote pay-in / pay-out machine There is a. These depositing and dispensing machines are connected to a POS register, and are settled according to the following procedure.

[0005] First, a purchase item is registered by the POS register, and the total price of the purchase item is displayed on the display unit.
The cashier tells the customer the amount of money, receives cash from the customer, checks whether the cash is normal, and inputs the amount of money received into the POS register while keeping the cash in a visible place.

[0006] When a key is input, the POS register calculates the necessity of a change from the total amount of the purchased product and the received amount of the key input, and when there is a change, the change is dispensed to a banknote pay-in / pay-out machine and a coin pay-in / pay-out machine. A money order is issued and change is dispensed. Next, when the cashier hands the change to the customer, the checkout process with the customer is completed, and the customer leaves.

On the other hand, the cashier divides the cash received from the customer and held at a place where the customer can see into banknotes and coins and puts the cash into each of the cashiers. Processing was performed.

[0008]

However, in general, when paying for a purchased product at a checkout station, it is common practice to pay so that the number of change currency components is as small as possible, and that the change includes as large a bill as possible. It is. For example, 1
If you pay exactly 1042 yen for the purchase price of 042 yen, there is no change and it is the best, but if you do not have 1000 yen bills or 42 yen coins, you will use 10,000 yen bills and 10,000 yen If you pay, 8958 yen will be changed,
Even if the number of change components is minimized, four bills (one 5,000-yen bill and three 1,000-yen bills) and ten coins (5
1 00 yen coin, 4 100 coins, 1 50 yen coin, 5
One yen coin and three yen coins).

However, for the price of 1042 yen, 100
If you pay 50 yen, 9008 yen will be changed, and if you make the minimum number of change, 5 bills (1 5,000 yen bill and 4 1,000 yen bill) and 4 coins (1 5 yen coin) One yen coin 3
), Which is preferable because the number of constituents is smaller and the number of expensive money increases as compared with the change of 10,000 yen bill described above.

[0010] From such a fact, the customer once tried to hand over the 10,000-yen bill to get change, but found that he had a 50-yen coin, and added and paid the 50-yen coin (hereinafter referred to as "they"). This additional payment is often referred to as an additional payment), and it is often attempted to reduce the number of changes or to include high value money.

In the above-described case, in the conventional drawer system, the cashier calculated the change by mental arithmetic, took out the calculated change from the drawer, and handed it to the customer. In a system in which a cash-receipt-and-disbursement machine is connected to a POS register and mechanically dispenses change, once the price is received and the change is dispensed, even if there is an additional money, it cannot be accepted. We couldn't respond to such extra money at all.

[0012]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above problem, and it is an object of the present invention to be able to receive additional money even after the money has been received and the change has been put out.
In a cashier settlement system having a cash register and a cash depositing / dispensing machine, after the change is put out, the customer operates the money as a supplementary payment as a supplementary payment, a supplementary payment receiving permitting means for enabling the payment of the additional money, and the additional money amount Additional change amount input means for receiving a key input of, a new change amount calculating means for calculating a new change amount amount by adding the additional amount amount input by the additional amount amount input means and the already-changed change amount amount, In order to solve the problem, a new change dispensing control unit for dispensing the change of the amount calculated by the new change calculating means from the coin depositing and dispensing machine and the banknote depositing and dispensing machine with a minimum number of components is provided. It is.

The above-mentioned additional payment accepting permission means, additional money amount input means, new change calculating means, and new change dispensing control section may be provided either in a cash register or in a bill receiving / dispensing machine.

By operating the additional payment accepting means, it becomes possible to input the additional money by means of the additional money input means. A mode in which the change dispensing control unit is configured to dispose of change, wherein the new change is performed by operating the additional payment accepting permission unit after performing a key input of the additional amount by the additional amount input unit. A mode in which the dispensing control unit is configured to dispose of change, wherein the coin receiving and dispensing is performed after the additional payment accepting means is operated and the additional money amount is input by a key input by the additional money inputting means. This includes a mode in which the new change dispensing control unit discharges change when the same amount of money as the change amount already dispensed to the machine or the banknote pay-in / pay-out device is performed.

[0015]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described below with reference to embodiments shown in the drawings. FIG. 1A shows P as a cash register used in the cashier settlement system according to the present invention.
1 shows an external appearance of an example of an OS register and a banknote pay-in / pay-out device and a coin pay-in / pay-out device connected thereto. In this embodiment, a banknote pay-in / pay-out device 2 is provided on one side of a cash register table 1 and an upper portion on the other side. A coin depositing and dispensing machine 3 is disposed at a position, and a POS register 4 is disposed on an upper surface of the cash register stand 1, and is installed at a cashier in a store such as a supermarket.
FIG. 1B is an enlarged view of the vicinity of the operation unit of the banknote pay-in / pay-out device 2.

The banknote pay-in / pay-out device 2 has a processing unit 2B (shown in FIG. 2) which can be withdrawn to the front side of the machine body 2A.
A bill dispensing port 6 opening directly below the banknote, a ten-key type operation unit 7 and a display unit 8 are provided. A part of the operation unit 7 has an additional number for counting the amount of additional money. A number key 9 of money amount input means is provided, and a money-up button 10 of money-up reception permitting means is provided in the vicinity thereof. Further, an insertion hole 2b for an opening / closing key for the front door 2a is provided on the front side of the body 2A.

The coin depositing and dispensing machine 3 has a coin depositing port 11 and a coin dispensing port 12 which are located at the upper front side of the body and open, and the POS register 4 is operated in a known manner. Group of keys 13, display unit 14 for attendants, display unit 15 for customers, currency placement unit 16 for temporarily storing cash received from customers in a position visible to customers, receipt issuing port 17
Etc.

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of the banknote pay-in / pay-out device 2 in the above-described embodiment as viewed from the vertical side, and a belt 18 for horizontally transporting the deposited banknotes following the banknote insertion slot 5.
And rollers 19, 19 (upper rollers are reverse rollers)
A conveyance path 20 is disposed, and a self-weight hanging type pressing plate 21 for pressing the upper surface of the banknote to prevent the banknote from being lifted is pivotally supported at an upper position of the belt 18 in a downwardly inclined position toward the rear. . The belt 18 and the rollers 19,
19 constitutes a retraction means.

Following the rear end of the transport path 20, belts 24 and 25 are arranged such that an identification transport path 23 having a deposit identification section 22 for identifying a denomination, a damage or the like of a deposited bill is drawn in a U-shape in side view.
The end of the identification conveying path 23 is folded back to a position in the middle of the processing unit 2B in the front-rear direction, and the belts 24, 25 converted in the vertical direction are formed.
The vertical transport path 26 is followed.

The belt 2 at the upper end of the vertical transport path 26
Numeral 7 is wound around a pulley 28 near the dispensing port 6 and turned over, and constitutes a part of a dispensing mechanism 30 for dispensing bills.

A reject box 31 is disposed immediately below the ejection mechanism 30, and a storage stacker 32 for storing only banknotes is disposed below the reject box 31. First and second two recirculation stackers 33 and 34, which are bill storage units having a bill feeding function, are positioned vertically on the back side of the unit 2B).

In the middle of the vertical transport path 26, a branching claw 35 as a branching means for branching and transporting the banknote to the ejection mechanism 30 and a branching claw 3 for the reject box 31 are provided.
6, a branch claw 37 to the storage stacker 32 and a branch claw 38 to the upper first reflux stacker 33 are provided, respectively. The branch claw 37 to the storage stacker 32 and the upper reflux stacker 33 are provided.
A dispensing identification unit 39 for identifying a denomination of a dispensed bill is provided in the vertical transport path 26 between the branching claw 38 and the branching claw 38.

The ejection mechanism 30 is provided with a receiving plate 40 at a position directly below the belt 27 at a center position in the front-rear direction at a tip of a support arm 41.
The base is pivotally supported on the unit side and is raised by a driving means (for example, a solenoid or the like) (not shown) at the time of dispensing bills. When a bill is sandwiched between rollers 42, 42 axially attached to project from the upper surface and the lower surface of the belt 27, the bill is ejected from the dispensing port 6 by driving the belt 27. . The receiving plate 40 constitutes the cash collecting unit 30A.

In FIG. 2, reference numeral 43 denotes an impeller for knocking down the trailing end of the bills to be fed onto the receiving plate 40 so as to satisfactorily accumulate the bills on the receiving plate 40; A restricting portion integrally provided at an end of the plate 40 with a predetermined interval between the upper surface of the receiving plate 40 and a dispensing port of the processing unit 2B when the receiving plate 40 is raised (during bill ejection). An outlet facing the front of the banknote 6 is formed to restrict the tip of the banknote from rising.

The reject box 31 and the storage stacker 32 are tray-shaped storage cassettes whose upper surfaces are open, and can be pulled out of the processing unit 2B by opening the front door 2a. At the opening of the storage stacker 32, there is provided a shutter 29, which is schematically shown. When the drawer is pulled out, the shutter 29 is closed to provide a safe. In FIG. 2, reference numeral 32a is a lock means for the storage stacker 32, 31a is an impeller for knocking down the rear end of the bills fed to the reject box 31 to obtain a good stacking state, and 46 is a storage stacker. This is an impeller for receiving the leading end of the bills discharged to 32 between the blades and sequentially accumulating the bills downward.

In the example shown in the figure, the recirculating stackers 33 and 34 have a predetermined number (for example, five) of a recirculating stacker 33 of 1,000 yen bills and a lower recirculating stacker 34 of 5,000 yen bills.
The recycle stackers 33 and 34 have a structure in which the bills are wound and stored, and the structure per se is publicly known. A brief description will be given.

Since the upper and lower reflux stackers 33 and 34 have the same configuration, the upper one will be described.
A single rotating drum 48, which is rotatable forward and reverse and around which a bill is wound, is pivotally supported. Two types of tapes 49, 50 are wound around the periphery of the rotating drum 48 together. One of the tapes 49 is provided with a pulley 52 and an intermediate pulley 5 located above the bill entrance 51 of the machine frame 47.
The other tape 50 is wound around a winding shaft 58 via a pulley 56 located below the bill entrance 51 and an intermediate pulley 57.

Therefore, when storing bills, the rotating drum 48 is driven forward (in the direction of arrow a in FIG. 2) to sandwich bills fed from the bill entrance 51 between the tapes 59 and 50, and the rotating drum 48 When the banknotes are sequentially wound and stored on the peripheral surface and the banknotes are dispensed, the rotating drum 48 is driven in reverse rotation (in the direction of arrow B in FIG. 2) to pull the banknotes sandwiched between the tapes 49 and 50 into pulleys 52 and 56. The bill is sent to the bill entrance 51 from between.

Since the lower reflux stacker 34 has the same configuration, the same reference numerals as those of the above-mentioned reflux stacker 33 are given.

The above components are driven by a motor M in the machine body, and the rotating drums 48,
Reference numeral 48 is adapted to receive rotation transmission from the motor M by detaching and connecting a clutch (not shown) at the time of storage or extension.

A special key is provided for the reject box 31, and it cannot be withdrawn unless the key is opened.

At the entrance to the ejection mechanism 30, the entrance to the reject box 31, the entrance to the storage stacker 32, and the entrance to the return stackers 33 and 34, detection for detecting passage of bills is performed. Sensor S as a means
₁ , S ₂ , S ₃ , S ₄ , S ₅ (photo sensors) are provided.

The control unit 60 for controlling the operation of each unit is
As shown in FIG. 3 as an example, in addition to the ROM and the RAM, it has a deposit control unit 61 including a new change dispensing control unit 62, a new change calculating unit 64, and a first and second return. The driving means (clutch) of the stackers 33 and 34 and the driving means of the impeller 46 of the storage stacker 32 are controlled by signal input from each sensor. In addition, each operation of bill feeding means (belt 18, roller 19), bill detecting means 65 for detecting passage of bills, conveying means 20, 23, 26, and branching means (branching claws 35, 36, 37, 38), Additional button 10,
The number key 9, detection of passage to the reject box 31, and control of the payment identification unit 22 and the payment identification unit 39 are performed. The payment button 10 of the payment reception permitting means and the numeric key 9 of the payment amount input means may be provided in the POS register 4. As an operation condition of the new change dispensing control unit 62, after inputting a reimbursement amount by a numeric key 9 enabled by operating a reimbursement button 10 of the reimbursement acceptance permitting unit, a confirmation key for fixing the amount (Not shown), the new change dispensing may be performed.

After inputting the amount of the additional money with the numeral key 9,
A method in which the new change dispensing control unit 62 dispenses change by operating the replenishment button 10 or the replenishment button 1
The new change dispensing control unit 62 operates under the condition that a change of the same amount as the change already dispensed to the coin depositing and dispensing machine 3 or the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 2 is performed after the 0 and the number key 9 are operated. May be used.

The operation of the banknote pay-in / pay-out device itself is performed as follows. [In the case of deposit] If banknotes to be deposited are put into the deposit port 5 all at once, the belt 18 and the roller 1
9 and 19, the bills are fed one by one, and the deposit identification unit 2
It is determined whether the banknote is normal or not. The banknote determined to be normal is once sent to the lower second recycle stacker 34 by the discrimination of the denomination and then fed out.
7 is switched and sent to the storage stacker 32, and if it is a 1,000-yen bill, the branching claw 38 to the upper reflux stacker 33 is switched and sent to the stacker 33. If it is a 5,000-yen bill, the vertical transport path 26 is used. Is fed into the lower reflux stacker 34 from the end. In each of the reflux stackers 33 and 34, the rotating drum 48 rotates forward, and a bill is sandwiched between the tapes 49 and 50, wound around the rotating drum 48, and stored.

At this time, if the first reflux stacker 33 is full, it is fed into each of the reflux stackers 33 and 34 and then fed out and sent to the storage stacker 32. The 5,000-yen bill is also sent to the storage stacker 32 in the same manner as the 1,000-yen bill if the second recirculation stacker 34 is full.

If the banknote is not judged to be normal by the deposit recognition unit 22, the reject box 31
Sent to

[Dispensing] When dispensing change banknotes, a predetermined number of 1,000-yen banknotes from the first recycle stacker 33 and a 5,000-yen banknote from the second recycle stacker 34 based on the change-dispensing command. Is fed upward by the vertical transport path 26, the path is switched by the branching claw 35, and is fed into the deposit collecting section 30 A on the receiving plate 40 of the ejection mechanism 30,
After the feeding is completed, the receiving plate 40 is raised, and the upper surface of the bill on the receiving plate 40 is pressed against the belt 27 and is ejected from the outlet 6. When a change using coins is required, a change dispensing instruction is issued to the coin depositing / dispensing machine 3 by a command from the POS register 4, and the change coins are dispensed to the coin dispensing port 12 through the control unit 60.

Next, the dispensing mode according to the present invention will be described with reference to the flowcharts shown in FIGS. The flow in FIG. 4A is a normal dispensing mode, in which the amount to be dispensed is decomposed into denominations so as to dispens with the minimum number of components (step S ₁ ), and then it is determined whether or not dispensing with bills is necessary. (Step S ₂ ), and if necessary, the dispensing of bills is started (Step S ₃ ). Pass this if not needed.

Subsequently, it is determined whether or not coin ejection is necessary (step S ₄ ). If necessary, coin ejection is started (step S ₅ ), and if unnecessary, the coin is passed. .

Thus, the dispensing of the change using the bills and coins is completed. After the completion is confirmed (step S ₆ ), the disbursed amount is copied to the previous disbursed amount (step S ₇ ), and the process ends. Becomes

FIG. 4 (B) shows a flow of the pay-in processing in the first to fourth aspects of the present invention. When there is a pay-in, the pay-in button 10 is pressed (step S ₈ ). Next, the additional money is input by the numeral key 9 (step S).
₉ ). When then the confirmation key is pressed (Step S _10),
Amount plus the amount of Tsuikin the amounts thrown out as change are calculated before (step S _11), the dispensing process returns to the system of FIG. 4 (A) (Step S ₁₂₎ is performed. The payment waiting display (step S ₁₃₎ is performed, whether there is money in the dispensing amount of money is determined (step S _14), when there will end, if there is no returns to step S _14.

FIG. 5A shows a flow of the pay-in process according to the fifth aspect of the present invention. In this flow, the pay-in button 10 in FIG. performs Tsuikin amount input by the numeric key 9 (step S _15), then press the Tsuikin key 10 (step S ₁₆₎
Returning to the system of FIG. 4 as in step S ₁₁ of (A), the amount obtained by adding the Tsuikin amount the amount thrown out as change before is calculated (step S _17), FIG. 4 (A) by dispensing process Te (step S ₁₈₎ is made, payment waiting display (step S ₁₉₎ is performed, whether there is money in the dispensing amount of money is determined (step S _20), when there will end, If not, the process returns to the step S _20.

FIG. 5B shows a flow of the additional money processing according to the sixth aspect of the present invention. The additional money button 10 is pressed (step S ₂₁ ), and the additional money amount is input by the numeral key 9. (step S _22). Then deposit wait display is performed (step S _23), whether there is money in the dispensing amount of money is determined (step S _24), likewise dispensing amount and the step S ₁₇ if there is calculated (Step S ₂₅ ), the ejection process is performed (Step S ₂₆ ). In the case of no payment returns to the step S _24.

[0045]

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to receive the additional money that the customer has paid even after receiving the purchase price and throwing out the change, so that the automatic money input / output machine can be used. Even the provided cashier settlement can be automatically processed, and the cashier settlement efficiency can be improved.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1A is a perspective view showing a specific example of a cashier settlement system to which the present invention is applied, and FIG. 1B is an enlarged view near an operation unit.

FIG. 2 is a schematic sectional view of the bill receiving / dispensing machine in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a control block diagram.

FIGS. 4A and 4B are flowcharts.

FIGS. 5A and 5B are flowcharts.

[Explanation of symbols]

 2 Bill Receiving / Paying Machine 3 Coin Receiving / Paying Machine 4 POS Register 5 Bill Receiving Port 6 Bill Receiving Port 7 Operation Unit 9 Dispensing Order Switching Means 22 Receipt Recognition Unit 30 Dispensing Mechanism 30A Dispensing Stacking Unit 31 Reject Box 32 Storage Stacker 33 first reflux stacker 34 second reflux stacker 48 rotating drum 49,50 tape

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A cash register for registering a purchased product and inputting the amount received from the customer as a price for calculating the change amount, and a cash register connected to the cash register for dispensing change and receiving the change amount. In a cashier settlement system including a coin depositing and dispensing machine for performing deposit and a banknote depositing and dispensing machine, after a change is dispensed, the additional operation is performed when a customer sends out a coin as an additional payment, and the additional payment can be received. Reception permitting means, additional money input means for accepting a key input of the additional money, and adding the additional money input by the additional money input means and the change amount already dispensed to form a new change amount. A new change calculation means for calculating, and a new change dispensing control unit for discharging the change of the amount calculated by the new change calculation means from the coin depositing and dispensing machine and the bill dispensing machine with a minimum number of components. Cash register checkout system which is characterized. 2. The cashier settlement system according to claim 1, wherein said additional payment acceptance permission means, additional money amount input means, new change calculation means, and new change dispensing control section are provided in a cash register. 3. The cashier settlement system according to claim 1, wherein said additional payment accepting permission means, additional money amount input means, new change calculation means, and new change dispensing control section are provided in a banknote pay-in / pay-out machine. 4. The operation of the additional payment accepting means makes it possible to input the additional money by the additional money inputting means. The cashier settlement system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the change dispensing control unit dispenses change. 5. A new change dispensing control section for dispensing change by operating the additional payment accepting permission means after key input of the additional money amount by the additional money input means. The cashier settlement system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein: 6. The coin depositing / dispensing machine or the banknote depositing / dispensing machine after the supplementary deposit accepting means has been operated and the supplementary money inputting means has been keyed in by the supplementary money inputting means. The cashier settlement system according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the new change dispensing control unit dispenses change when the same amount of money as the change is received.