JPS6184790A - Banknote handling equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Field of Application of the Invention] The present invention relates to a banknote handling device, and more particularly, the present invention relates to a banknote handling device that classifies banknotes by denomination so that banknotes inserted into the device for deposit or deposit can be diverted to payment. The present invention relates to a recycling-type banknote handling device that is configured to store banknotes.

[Background of the invention]

Customer-operated automatic teller machines installed at financial institutions' branches and cash deposit/withdrawal machines used by staff at counters have a special focus on depositing (depositing) cash in order to use the cash held by each machine as efficiently as possible. ) There is a desire for an apparatus configuration having a so-called banknote recycling function, in which banknotes taken into the apparatus during a transaction are used as banknotes to be discharged during a payment transaction.

In such a recycle-type banknote handling device, incoming banknotes are distinguished by denomination and fitness, and each banknote is stored in a dispensing banknote storage box for each denomination, excluding banknotes that are inappropriate for payment. be accommodated in. However, there is a possibility that the deposit transaction will be canceled midway through, and in this case, the receiver must return the banknotes as they are, so the banknotes received must be kept side by side with the existing banknotes until instructions are given to complete the transaction. Save it and
It is necessary to wait for the above-mentioned transaction establishment instruction before carrying out the combined storage operation with existing banknotes.

As an apparatus configuration having the above-mentioned one-time stacking function for deposited banknotes, for example, in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 58-221a9a, an accumulation/takeout device is arranged in front of a banknote storage box for each denomination and a collected banknote storage box, respectively. Each storage box is equipped with a separator mechanism to separate the banknotes for the transaction from the previous banknotes, and the deposited banknotes are temporarily stored on the front side of each storage box according to the discrimination results. When the transaction is completed, the banknotes are temporarily stored. A configuration has been proposed in which banknotes are combined with previously stored banknotes, and when a return request is made, the banknotes can be fed out one by one and transported to the return slot.

On the other hand, according to Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 58-140890, deposited banknotes are temporarily stored in bulk after being verified, and when a transaction is completed, the temporarily stored banknotes are returned to the deposit/withdrawal slot all at once. A known configuration is known in which the banknotes are fed one by one into the discrimination device using a banknote separation device and are sorted into a denomination storage box and a collected banknote storage box according to the recognition results.

[Purpose of the invention]

The present invention can simplify the structure of a banknote storage box for each denomination in which deposited banknotes are sorted and a collective storage box for all denominations in which collected banknotes are stored. It is an object of the present invention to provide a banknote handling device configured to easily transfer banknotes to and from a box.

[Summary of the invention]

In order to achieve the above object, the bill handling device according to the present invention includes a bill receiving mechanism that is located at a deposit/withdrawal slot and dispenses the bills that have been thrown and thrown in at once to the head one by one; a discriminating device for discriminating bills, a dispensing bill stack into which bills to be sent to the bill receiving mechanism among the discriminating bills are carried in and temporarily storing the bills, and a device for transferring bills in the dispensing bill stack to the bill receiving mechanism. a second banknote circulation path that branches banknotes that have passed through the validation device and returns them to the entrance side of the validation device; and a plurality of banknote storage boxes. , each forming a pair with the plurality of banknote storage boxes, selectively taking in the banknotes on the second banknote circulation path into the corresponding banknote storage box, and feeding out the stored banknotes one by one onto the second banknote circulation path. and a control means for controlling the conveyance of banknotes on each of the circulation paths, and the banknote storage box is removably attached to the first storage box for storing banknotes by banknote and the main body of the device. a second storage box that collectively stores banknotes of multiple denominations; and a second storage box that temporarily stacks all banknotes sent from the banknote receiving mechanism to the second circulation path via the discrimination device during a deposit transaction. and a third storage box, wherein the control means is configured to control the first storage box. When transferring banknotes from one side of the second storage box to the other and when paying out banknotes from the third storage box, the feeding means attached to the storage box is continuously driven. When transferring banknotes from one side to the other side of the second storage box, the feeding means is switched to intermittent drive having alternating periods of continuous feeding of a predetermined number of banknotes and predetermined pause periods. do.

[Embodiments of the invention]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram schematically showing the configuration of the banknote handling device of the present invention. In the figure, 9 is a banknote deposit/withdrawal port formed in the device housing, and 1 is the inside of the banknote deposit/withdrawal port 9. 2 is a banknote discrimination device that determines the authenticity, denomination, fitness, front and back, etc. of banknotes; 3 is a temporary stacker for dispensing banknotes; 4 is a temporary stave force for deposited banknotes; s
A, sB, and sC are bill storage boxes, 6 is a reject bill storage box, 7 is a forgotten bill collection box, and 88 to 8E are bill conveyance paths.

In the device of the present invention, the banknote transport system forms two loops that can be circulated. The first loop is the bill receiving mechanism 1
A conveyance path 8A that conveys the bills fed out from the bank, a B conveyance path 8B that leads the banknotes to the validation device 2, a C conveyance path 8C that conveys the validated banknotes, and a temporary stacker 6 for transferring banknotes.
It also consists of a D transport path 8D that leads to the eject banknote collection box 6, and as will be described later in FIG. It has become. The second loop consists of a B conveyance path 8B, a C conveyance path 8C, and an E conveyance path 8E,
The deposited banknote temporary stacker 4 and the banknote storage boxes 5A to 5C are installed along the E transport path.

The deposited banknote temporary stacker 4 includes a take-in mechanism that takes in banknotes on the E conveyance path BE via a branch path 40, and a banknote feed-out mechanism that sends out the temporarily stacked banknotes one by one to the E conveyance path via a discharge path 45. We are prepared. Similarly, the banknote storage boxes 58 to 5C are configured to take in banknotes on the E conveyance path via the branch paths 50A to soC, respectively, and send out stored banknotes onto the E conveyance path through the ejection paths 55A to 55C. It has become.

Among the banknote storage boxes 58 to 5C, 5A and 5B are banknote storage boxes by denomination that store banknotes applicable for withdrawal by denomination. Yen notes are stored.

On the other hand, the storage box 5C is a banknote bulk storage box that collectively stores banknotes unsuitable for withdrawal, and collects denominations other than 1,000 yen and 10,000 yen and banknotes determined to be unfit. In addition, the bulk storage box 5C is removably attached to the main body of the device, and as described later, the storage boxes 5A and 5B for each denomination of banknotes for withdrawal at the start of business.
The loading of banknotes into the denomination storage boxes 5A and sB at the end of the work day is carried out via this collective storage box.

Figure 2 shows a specific device structure that realizes the configuration shown in Figure 1.
It is a figure which shows an example.

The bill receiving mechanism 1 includes a tiltable bill receiving box 10 supported by a rotary support shaft 11, and a pickup roller 12 that is intermittently driven during a bill paying operation.
This is combined with a feeding mechanism consisting of a feed roller 16 and a gate roller 14 for separating the banknotes fed out by the PIVQUARE 10-ra one by one and sending them out to the A conveyance path 8A. Further, when receiving banknotes, the receiving box 1o is retracted to the open side of the receiving box by a drive device (not shown) to form a banknote receiving space, and after receiving banknotes, it is urged toward the open side of the receiving box to receive the received banknotes 90. A push plate 16 that presses against the pickup roller 12 is provided. Sl is a sensor for detecting the presence or absence of banknotes in the receiving box 10, and S2 is a banknote passage detection sensor provided on the A conveyance path 8 people consisting of a pair of conveyor belts, and detects the presence of banknotes fed out from the receiving box 10. This sensor checks the number, length, and distance from the preceding banknote.

The discrimination device 2 consists of a banknote conveyance path 20 and a plurality of sensors arranged along this conveyance path.These sensors read the printing pattern, magnetic pattern, dirt, etc. of the passing banknotes, and identify each denomination. The authenticity, fitness, and denomination of each banknote are determined by comparing it with a standard pattern prepared in advance. These determination results are determined by the banknote distribution gate G2. G3゜51A
~51C, reflected in the control of 41.

The payout banknote temporary stacker 3 is located at the end of the D conveyance path 8D, and has a placement plate 51 on which the conveyed banknotes are stacked.
It consists of a bill stopper 32 that prevents bills from flying out, an L-shaped fork 33 that pushes out stacked bills and transfers them to a receiving box, and a guide belt 34 that is tiltable about a support shaft 35. Stopper 32 and guide belt 3
4 is normally in the lowered position shown by the solid line, and the fork 35 is in the retracted position. Therefore, the discharged banknotes that have traveled straight along the D conveyance path 8D are sequentially stacked on the banknote receiving surface consisting of the placing plate and the bottom of the fork. When transferring stacked banknotes to the receiving box 10, the receiving box 10 rotates in the x1 direction as shown by the two-dot chain line to take a horizontal position, and the stopper 32 and the guide belt 34 move in the x2 direction as shown by the broken line. Moved and in elevated position. Therefore, by moving the fork 36 forward by a drive device (not shown), the stacked banknotes can be transferred to the receiving box. Note that S5 is a sensor for detecting the passage of banknotes fed into the stacker 3, and S6 is a sensor for detecting the remaining banknotes in the stacker 3.

The reject banknote storage box 6 stores banknotes that have been sorted out by G3 in the middle of the D conveyance path 8D. A sensor S4 is provided on the conveyance path 60 between the gate G6 and the storage box 6 to detect the passage of banknotes, thereby confirming the number of rejected banknotes.

The deposited banknote temporary stacker 4 is connected to the gate 4 from the E conveyance path 8E.
The banknotes sorted in step 1 are received by the blades 11j42, and the banknotes are sequentially stacked on a banknote placement plate 44 supported by a pressing spring 43.

46, 47, and 48 are a pick-up roller, a feed roller, and a gate roller, respectively, and during stacking of bills, the pick-up roller 46 is in the retracted position shown by the solid line so as not to obstruct the conveyance of bills from the shoulder wheel 42. When taking out the stacked banknotes 90, the pick-up roller 46 is lowered to the dotted line position, the scraping roller is driven intermittently, and the banknotes are fed out one by one. 49 is a sensor that detects the passage of the paid banknote.

The banknote storage boxes 5A and 5B for each denomination and the bulk banknote storage box 5C are structurally similar to the deposited banknote temporary stacker 4, except that they have a large banknote storage capacity, and each banknote storage box 52A is similar to the deposited banknote temporary stacker 4.
, 52B, 52C, and the distribution provided on the E conveyance path is 51A, slB.

The banknotes selected in 51C are stored via each shoulder wheel, and the stored banknotes (
90A, 90B, 90C) can be taken out one by one. 59A to 59C indicate sensors for detecting the passage of the paid banknotes. Incidentally, the driving timing of the gates 41.51A to 51B is determined based on the detection of passage of banknotes by the sensor S5 arranged near the entrance of the E conveyance path 8E. Further, each of the storage boxes 5A to sC described above is, for example, a storage box 5AIC810°8.
As shown by 11 and 812, each bank is equipped with a sensor that detects whether the banknote is full, empty, or low.

Next, the operation of the banknote processing apparatus will be explained.

Loading of banknotes at the start of work: Loading of banknotes is carried out using a bulk storage box 5C that is removably attached to the main body of the apparatus.

When the denomination storage boxes 5A and 5B are empty, the bulk storage box 5C
The loading of banknotes into the storage boxes 5A and 5B is performed as follows. The staff member sets the bulk storage box 5C containing the 1,000 yen notes and 10,000 yen notes prepared for payment into the main body of the device. At this time, the banknotes may be a mixture of 1,000 yen notes and 10,000 yen notes, or may be divided into blocks according to denomination. After setting the bulk storage box 5C in the main body of the device, when the start of loading operation is commanded from the operation panel (not shown), the pick-up roller descends and is intermittently rotated to move bills one by one along the conveyance path. It is rolled out in 8E.

These banknotes are sent to the validation device 2 via the conveyance path 8B, and the authenticity and denomination of the banknotes are determined. As a result, among the genuine banknotes whose denominations have been determined, 1,000 yen notes are sorted at gate 51A, and 10,000 yen notes are sorted at gate 51B, and they are sorted into storage box 5A.
, stored in 5B. In addition, mixed banknotes other than the above-mentioned denominations and those of these denominations that are determined to be unfit or counterfeit are sorted to the conveyance path 8D at gate G2.
The money is sent to the temporary withdrawal stacker 6.

In addition, if either storage box 5A or sB becomes full during the loading operation, the corresponding banknotes that are subsequently discriminated are sorted into the temporary withdrawal stacker 6 at gate G2 and stored in the bulk storage box 5C. When all banknotes are processed, the receiving mechanism 1
It is ejected out of the aircraft via the duct and extracted by staff. During the above discrimination operation, the total amount of denomination banknotes to be distributed to the storage boxes 5A and 5B is counted, and when the banknote loading operation is completed, these amounts are displayed on an amount display (not shown) on the operation surface. Therefore, the clerk confirms the displayed amount and the amount of the discharged banknotes taken out from the deposit/withdrawal port 9 and counted by himself, and completes the loading process.

Deposit Operation: During the deposit operation, the deposit/withdrawal port 9 is opened and deposited banknotes are input into the receiving mechanism 1 all at once.

When the completion of banknote insertion is detected by closing the lid of the deposit/withdrawal port 9 or pressing the start button provided on the operation surface,
The belt forming the conveyance path operates, the pickup roller 12 and the feed roller 11 are driven, and the banknotes are fed out one by one onto the conveyance path 8A. The banknotes fed into the conveyance path 8A are checked for length and counted by the sensor S2 at the entrance, and are then fed into the discrimination device via the conveyance path 8B. As a result of the discrimination, the banknotes determined to be genuine banknotes are sorted to the conveyance path 8E by the gate G2, go straight along the conveyance path 8E, and are sequentially stacked in the deposited banknote temporary stacker 4 by the gate 41. On the other hand, banknotes determined to be fake are sorted to the conveyance path 8D at the gate G2, and are sequentially stacked in the temporary stacker 3 at the end of the conveyance path. When the sensor S1 detects that there are no more banknotes in the receiving mechanism 1, if the sensor S6 indicates the presence of banknotes, the receiver $1 tilts in the direction of X, and the stopper 3
2 and the guide belt 64 are retracted upward, the fork 33 is driven forward, and the temporarily stacked banknotes are transferred to the receiving mechanism 1. When the fork 33 retreats, the receiving mechanism 1, stopper 32, and guide belt 34 return to their initial positions, and these banknotes are fed out and verified again.By performing the verification twice in this way, , it becomes possible to correctly identify banknotes that could not be identified due to two-sheet feeding or skew exceeding the allowable range in the first processing. According to the above device configuration, the discrimination operation can be repeated any number of times, but if there are bills that are still rejected after being discriminated a predetermined number of times, they are transferred from the temporary stacker 3 to the receiving mechanism 1 and then transferred to the deposit/withdrawal slot. be released and returned to the customer. The total amount of banknotes stacked in the temporary deposit stacker 4 is calculated based on the output of the validation device 2, and when all the banknotes are successfully validated or the banknotes are returned as described above, The amount will be displayed on the operation screen.

When the customer operates the button to approve the deposit for the displayed amount, the payout device of the temporary deposit stacker 4 operates, and the temporarily stacked banknotes are sequentially fed out to the rear end of the conveyance path 8E. After passing through 8B, it is sent to the discrimination device again. As a result of this discrimination, 1,000 yen notes and 10,000 yen notes that are determined to be reusable as payment banknotes are sorted from game) 51A and 518K in the middle of conveyance path 8E, respectively, and stored in 1,000 yen storage box 5A and 10,000 yen storage box. It is stored in a box 58. In addition, banknotes that do not fall under these categories are stored in the bulk storage box 5C by the gate 51C.

In this case, the bulk storage box 5C will store banknotes of denominations other than 1,000 and 10,000 yen, as well as horizontal rolls that are inappropriate for payment even if they are 1,000 and 10,000 yen. K, storage box 5A to arrange.

Only the front tickets may be stored in the storage box 5B, and the back tickets may be collected in the bulk storage box 5C. Regarding the amount displayed above,
When the customer operates the button to cancel the deposit, all the bills fed out from the temporary deposit stacker 4 are transferred to the conveyance path 8C.
8D, and are returned to the customer via the temporary stacker 6 and receiving mechanism 1.

Payment operation: When the customer selects a payment transaction and specifies the payment amount using the numerical keys provided on the operation surface, the number of ten thousand yen notes and one thousand yen notes corresponding to the total amount are stored in the denomination storage box 5B, It is rolled out sequentially starting from 5A.

The banknotes fed out from each denomination storage box 5B, 5A are fed into the discrimination device 2 via conveyance paths 8Fi, 8B, where the denomination is confirmed and two bills are detected.

The banknotes that have passed through the discrimination device are sent to the conveyance path 8D by gate G2, normal banknotes are transferred to the temporary stacker 3 for dispensing banknotes, and duplicate banknotes and mixed banknotes of different denominations are rejected and collected at gate G3. It is stacked in box 6. When the feeding of banknotes from the storage boxes 5A and 5B is completed and the designated amount of banknotes is stored in the payout banknote temporary stacker, these banknotes are transferred to the banknote receiving mechanism 10IC by the 7-oice 33.
and the deposit/withdrawal port 9 is opened. The sensor S1 detects that the customer has taken out a banknote, and if the customer does not take out the banknote within a predetermined time after opening the deposit/withdrawal slot, the receiving machine @10 is rotated 90 degrees in the direction of arrow 3:1. The banknotes left behind are collected in the collection box 7 by rotating as described above.

It goes without saying that, prior to the above-described banknote collection operation, a message to guide the customer to remove the banknotes is outputted by the display device provided on the operation surface or the audio guidance device on the back.

Bill replenishment operation: When the remaining bills in the denomination storage boxes 5A, 5B decrease to a predetermined amount or less while the device is in operation, a display is displayed requesting the staff to replenish the bills. In this case, to replenish banknotes, you may take out the bulk storage box 5C, fill it with banknotes to be replenished, and transfer the banknotes to the denomination-specific storage boxes in the same manner as at the start of business. It is also possible to replenish banknotes from the deposit/withdrawal port 9 without changing the status.

That is, a button is provided for specifying a banknote replenishment mode from the deposit/withdrawal port, and when this mode is specified, the replenishment banknotes input from the deposit/withdrawal port 9 into the receiving mechanism 1o are transferred one by one to the conveyance path 8A. The coins 51A and 51B are controlled according to the denomination determined by the discriminating device 2, and are stored in predetermined denomination storage boxes 5A and 5B, respectively.

In this case, the banknotes rejected by the discrimination are transferred to the temporary payout banknote stacker 3, and after all the banknotes in the receiving mechanism 1 have been processed, they are transferred to this receiving mechanism and returned to the clerk.

Collecting operation of banknotes at the end of work: Banknotes are collected from the main body of the device in storage boxes 5A and 5B for each denomination.
Move the banknotes inside to bulk storage box 5CK, and put them in bulk storage box 5C.
This can be done by taking it out of the aircraft. In the case of the device of the present embodiment, the banknotes fed out from the denomination storage boxes 5A and sB go through the second loop, pass through the -tan discrimination device 2, and then are stored in the bulk storage box 5C. In this case, in order to store banknotes in the bulk storage box 5C, it is necessary to block the line of banknotes with a gate (G)-5IC in the middle of the conveyance path 8E. When the banknotes are fed out at a pitch of After the gate 51C is restored to its original position, the allocation will be made after
An intermittent feeding mode is adopted to restart bill feeding. To restart the feeding operation, the last bill fed out last time is transferred to the exit side conveyance path of the money transfer storage box and the conveyance path 8E.
Since the limit is reached at the point where the banknotes pass through the confluence with the second loop, if the total length of the second loop is L1 and the feeding pitch is P, then the number of banknotes that can be continuously supplied in each feeding operation is less than or equal to →.

The two denomination-specific storage boxes 5A are created by the intermittent feeding mode with such an alternating operation of continuous feeding periods and feeding pause periods.

The banknotes 90A and 90B in 5B are collectively stored in the storage box 5CK, and the banknotes rejected by the discriminating device 2 during this collection operation are collected in the ejection banknote collection box 6. Therefore,
By taking out the banknotes in the collection net 6 and the bulk storage box 5C, the staff member can collect all the banknotes in the main body of the device.

In the above embodiment, the storage boxes 5A and 5B are used to store banknotes by denomination, and the storage box 5C is used to store all denominations at once, and is removable from the main body of the device. It can also be placed. 5 in Figure 2
If placed in position A, the collection box 6 and the bulk storage box will be located on the back side of the device main body, and bill loading and collection at the start and end of work can be carried out from the same direction.

In this case, intermittent banknote feeding mode is executed when transferring banknotes from the bulk storage box to each denomination storage box, and continuous banknote feeding mode is used to collect banknotes from each denomination storage box to the bulk storage box. What you should do is K.

The various mechanical elements described above can be controlled by a control system mainly based on a microprocessor, as in the conventional banknote handling apparatus.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, in the banknote handling device according to the present invention,
a first circulation path through which banknotes fed out from the banknote receiving mechanism of the deposit/withdrawal port return to the banknote receiving mechanism via a validation device; and a second circulation path through which banknotes that have passed through the validation device are returned to the entrance side of the validation device. A circulation path is provided, and a banknote storage box for each denomination, a bulk storage box, and a storage box for temporary stacking of deposits are arranged in the second circulation path, and when transferring banknotes between these storage boxes, the banknotes are continuously stored. A mode in which a predetermined number of banknotes are continuously fed out, and an intermittent feedout mode in which a predetermined number of banknotes are continuously fed out again after a certain pause period are used. Since the stored banknotes are stored in another banknote storage box after passing through the discrimination device, there is an advantage that the banknote transfer operation can be performed quickly and reliably.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG.
FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1...Banknote receiving mechanism, 2...Banknote validation device, 3...Outgoing bill temporary stacker, 4...Deposited banknote temporary stacker, 58-5C...Banknote storage box, 6... Reject banknote storage box, 7... Forgotten banknote collection box, 88-8E... Banknote conveyance path.

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) A bill receiving mechanism that is located at the deposit/withdrawal slot and sequentially dispenses banknotes that have been inserted in bulk one by one; a discrimination device that discriminates the dispensed bills; and a bill receiving mechanism that discriminates the bills that have been dispensed; A first banknote circulation path comprising a payout banknote stacker into which banknotes to be sent to the receiving mechanism are carried in and temporarily stored, and a means for transferring the banknotes in the payout banknote stacker to the banknote receiving mechanism. a second banknote circulation path that branches the banknotes that have passed through the discrimination device and returns them to the entrance side of the validation device; and a plurality of banknote storage boxes, each of which is paired with the plurality of banknote storage boxes. , means for selectively taking in the banknotes on the second banknote circulation path into the corresponding banknote storage box and feeding out the stored banknotes one by one onto the second banknote circulation path; The banknote storage box is composed of a first storage box that stores banknotes by denomination, and a control unit that controls the conveyance, and a first storage box that is removably attached to the main body of the device and stores banknotes of multiple denominations at once. a second storage box; and a third storage box that temporarily stacks all banknotes sent from the banknote receiving mechanism to the second circulation path via the discrimination device during a deposit transaction, and the control means However, when transferring banknotes from one of the first and second storage boxes to the other and feeding out banknotes from the third storage box, the feeding means attached to the storage box is continuously driven, and the feeding means attached to the storage box is continuously driven. 1. When transferring banknotes from one side to the other in the second storage box, the feeding means is switched to intermittent driving that alternates between a continuous feeding period of a predetermined number of banknotes and a predetermined pause period. Banknote handling equipment.