JP2015219623A - Paper money processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a paper money processor capable of restoring a storage state of paper money at the time of completion of transaction in a scene where paper money is re-input.SOLUTION: A paper money processor includes: a discrimination part for discriminating paper money input at the time of transaction, and for acquiring a serial number of the paper money; a control part for determining a conveyance destination of the paper money on the basis of a discrimination result of the paper money; and a storage part for storing the acquired serial number of the paper money and a transaction situation related to the paper money in association with each other. The control part determines the conveyance destination of the re-input paper money on the basis of the transaction situation stored in association with the serial number to be acquired from the re-input paper money in the storage part.

Description

  The present invention relates to a banknote handling apparatus.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, banknote handling apparatuses that store banknotes inserted by users in different storage locations depending on, for example, the denomination of banknotes or the state of banknotes have been developed.

  Moreover, in the banknote processing apparatus, the technique for ensuring the strictness of the count result of a banknote, for example at the time of failure occurrence, is also proposed. For example, in Patent Document 1, when a banknote conveyance failure occurs and a banknote is extracted from a temporary stacking unit by a user, after storing the number of banknotes extracted (hereinafter referred to as a return number), A technique is described in which re-injection of a banknote that has been extracted is accepted, and the returned banknotes are stacked in a temporary stacking unit.

JP 2008-40627 A

  By the way, for example, when a conveyance failure or the like occurs in the middle of a transaction and a bill is taken out from the bill processing apparatus, it is also desired that the bill can be restored to the stored state at the time of completion of the previous transaction.

  Assuming that the above technique is applied to such a scene, the above technique can match only the number of banknotes when the banknotes are reinserted. That is, with the above technique, it is only possible to match the number of banknotes stored when the previous transaction is completed with the number of newly stored banknotes. For this reason, when the banknote different from the banknote taken out from the banknote processing apparatus is thrown in, for example, there exists a possibility that the banknote different from the banknote actually stored may be stored.

  Therefore, the present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to allow the banknotes to be restored to the stored state at the time of completion of the transaction when the banknotes are re-inserted. It is another object of the present invention to provide a new and improved banknote handling apparatus.

  In order to solve the above-described problem, according to a certain aspect of the present invention, based on the discrimination result of discriminating a bill inserted at the time of transaction and obtaining the serial number of the bill, and the discrimination result of the bill, A control unit that determines a conveyance destination of the banknote, a storage unit that associates and stores the acquired serial number of the banknote, and a transaction status relating to the banknote, and the control unit is re-inserted There is provided a banknote processing apparatus that determines a transport destination of the re-inserted banknote based on a transaction status stored in the storage unit in association with a serial number acquired from a banknote.

  The control unit associates the serial number acquired from the re-inserted banknote with the transaction status stored in the storage unit indicating whether the transaction has been completed. You may determine a conveyance destination.

  The storage unit stores the serial number of the banknote and transport destination information indicating the transport destination of the banknote determined by the control unit in association with each other, and the control unit stores the banknote from the re-inserted banknote. When the transaction status stored in the storage unit in association with the acquired serial number indicates completion of the transaction, the location indicated by the transport destination information stored in the storage unit in association with the serial number You may determine as a conveyance destination of the said reinserted banknote.

  The storage unit further stores the serial number of the banknote and the discrimination result of the banknote, and the control unit stores the storage unit in association with the serial number acquired from the re-inserted banknote. When the transaction status stored in the table indicates completion of transaction, the transport destination of the re-inserted banknote is determined based on the discrimination result stored in the storage unit in association with the serial number. Also good.

  The discriminating unit further discriminates the re-inserted banknote, and the control unit stores the transaction status stored in the storage unit in association with the serial number acquired from the re-inserted banknote. , The transport destination of the re-inserted banknote may be determined based on the discrimination result of the re-inserted banknote.

  When the transaction status stored in the storage unit in association with the serial number acquired from the re-inserted banknote does not indicate the completion of the transaction, the control unit transports the re-inserted banknote May be determined as a discharge unit for discharging banknotes.

  When the serial number acquired from the re-inserted banknote is not stored in the storage unit, the control unit may determine the transport destination of the re-inserted banknote as the discharge unit.

  The discrimination result of the banknote may include information on the type of the banknote, the state of the banknote, or the direction of the banknote at the time of discrimination.

  The banknote handling apparatus further includes a temporary stacking unit capable of transporting banknotes to be bound and stacking the transported banknotes up to a predetermined number, and the banknotes to be reinserted are taken out from the temporary stacking unit. Banknotes may be included.

  The time when the banknotes accumulated in the temporary stacking unit are taken out may include the case where the banknote handling is stopped in the banknote handling apparatus.

  The banknote handling apparatus transports banknotes that are not to be bound, stores the transported banknotes, and stores the transported banknotes, and transports the reinserted banknotes to the banknotes that are not to be bound in the past. A warning that causes the display unit to display a warning indicating re-insertion when the transaction status stored in the storage unit in association with the re-inserted banknote indicates completion of transaction. And a section.

  As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to restore the stored state of the banknote at the time of completion of the transaction in the scene where the banknote is re-inserted.

It is explanatory drawing which showed the basic composition of the banknote processing apparatus 10 common to each embodiment of this invention. It is the flowchart which showed the flow of the whole process by the embodiment. It is the flowchart which showed the operation | movement of the money_receiving | payment process by the comparative example of this invention. It is the flowchart which showed the operation | movement of the return process by the comparative example. It is the functional block diagram which showed the internal structure of the banknote processing apparatus 10-1 by the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is an external view of an example of a banknote. It is explanatory drawing which showed the example of data recorded on the memory | storage part 118 by the embodiment. It is explanatory drawing which showed an example of the storage condition of the banknote of the banknote processing apparatus 10-1 by the embodiment. It is explanatory drawing which showed the condition where the banknote was taken out from the banknote processing apparatus 10-1 by the embodiment. It is explanatory drawing which showed an example of the storage condition of the banknote of the banknote processing apparatus 10-1 after the return process by the same embodiment. It is the flowchart which showed the operation | movement of the money_receiving | payment process by the embodiment. It is the flowchart which showed the operation | movement of the return process by the embodiment. It is the functional block diagram which showed the internal structure of the banknote processing apparatus 10-2 by the 2nd Embodiment of this invention. It is explanatory drawing which showed an example of the storage condition of the banknote of the banknote processing apparatus 10-2 by the embodiment. It is explanatory drawing which showed the example of the scene displayed as a warning at the time of the transaction by the embodiment. It is the flowchart which showed a part of operation | movement of the money_receiving | payment process by the embodiment. It is the flowchart which showed a part of operation | movement of the money_receiving | payment process by the embodiment.

  Exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In addition, in this specification and drawing, about the component which has the substantially same function structure, duplication description is abbreviate | omitted by attaching | subjecting the same code | symbol.

  In the present specification and drawings, a plurality of components having substantially the same functional configuration may be distinguished by adding different alphabets after the same reference numeral. For example, a plurality of configurations having substantially the same functional configuration are differentiated as necessary, such as the temporary stacking unit 110a and the temporary stacking unit 110b. However, when it is not necessary to particularly distinguish each of a plurality of constituent elements having substantially the same functional configuration, only the same reference numerals are given. For example, the temporary stacking unit 110a and the temporary stacking unit 110b are simply referred to as the temporary stacking unit 110 when it is not necessary to distinguish between them.

Further, the “DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION” will be described according to the following item order.
1. Basic configuration2. 2. Comparative example of the present invention 3. Detailed Description of Embodiment 3-1. First embodiment 3-2. Second Embodiment 4. Modified example

<< 1. Basic configuration >>
The present invention can be implemented in various forms as will be described in detail in “3-1. First Embodiment” to “3-2. Second Embodiment” as an example. Initially, the basic composition of the banknote processing apparatus 10 common to each embodiment is demonstrated with reference to FIG.

  The banknote handling apparatus 10 is an apparatus for accumulating banknotes that have been inserted by a user, for example, in a deposit transaction. As shown in FIG. 1, the banknote handling apparatus 10 according to each embodiment includes a loading unit 100, a discrimination unit 102, a reject pocket 104, an open pocket 106, a front / back reversing unit 108, a temporary stacking unit 110, a transfer unit 112, and a banknote. A bundling portion 114 is included.

<1-1. Input unit 100>
The insertion unit 100 is a part that accepts the insertion of a plurality of banknotes by a user. In addition, the input unit 100 conveys the accepted banknote to the discrimination unit 102.

<1-2. Identification part 102>
The discriminating unit 102 relates to the conveyed banknotes, for example, the authenticity of banknotes, the type of banknotes such as denominations, the banknotes such as whether they are correct (banknotes with little dirt) or damaged (banknotes with much dirt). The state or the direction of the front and back of the banknote at the time of discrimination (hereinafter, these are collectively referred to as a discrimination type) is discriminated. Note that the banknotes discriminated by the discrimination unit 102 are conveyed to a predetermined conveyance destination according to the discrimination result.

  Moreover, the discrimination part 102 counts the number of banknotes according to a conveyance destination about the banknotes other than the banknote which becomes a conveyance object to the rejection pocket 104 mentioned later among the verified banknotes.

<1-3. Reject pocket 104>
Reject pocket 104 is an example of a discharge part in the present invention. The reject pocket 104 is a part that stores banknotes identified by the discrimination unit 102 as having an unknown denomination or being unacceptable. As shown in FIG. 1, the reject pocket 104 is provided, for example, above the banknote processing apparatus 10, and can easily collect stored banknotes while a user stands. Note that banknotes collected from the reject pocket 104 are managed by the user by hand.

<1-4. Open pocket 106>
The open pocket 106 is an example of a banknote storage unit that is not to be bound in the present invention. In the open pocket 106, when the discrimination result by the discrimination unit 102 is not the object to be transported to the reject pocket 104 and does not correspond to the discrimination type determined in advance as the binding target, the identified banknote is transported, and It is a site | part which stores the conveyed banknote. Moreover, as shown in FIG. 1, the open pocket 106 is provided above the banknote processing apparatus 10, for example, and can collect | recover the stored banknote easily in the state where the user stood. Note that the banknotes collected from the open pocket 106 are managed as confirmed cash at the user's hand.

<1-5. Front-back inversion part 108>
The front / back reversing unit 108 is a part for reversing the front and back sides of the conveyed banknotes with respect to the banknotes whose back side is up. As shown in FIG. 1, basically, only the banknote whose transport destination is the temporary stacking unit 110 is transported to the front / back reversing unit 108. However, the present invention is not limited to this example, and a bill whose destination is the reject pocket 104 or the open pocket 106 can also be transported to the front / back reversing unit 108.

<1-6. Temporary Accumulation Unit 110>
Temporary stacking unit 110 is a part that, when the discrimination result by discrimination unit 102 corresponds to a discrimination type that is determined in advance as a binding target, the banknotes that have been discriminated are conveyed and the banknotes that have been conveyed are accumulated. . The temporary stacking unit 110 is provided with a locking mechanism such as an electromagnetic lock and has a safe property.

  Further, the temporary stacking unit 110 can stack up to a predetermined number of bundles (for example, 100 sheets). When the number of banknotes accumulated in the temporary accumulation unit 110 reaches the number of bundles, all the accumulated banknotes are conveyed to the transfer unit 112.

  In addition, as shown in FIG. 1, an example in which five temporary stacking units 110 a to 110 e are provided, at least one temporary stacking unit 110 is provided in the banknote processing apparatus 10, and each has a different classification type. Accumulate banknotes.

<1-7. Transfer unit 112>
The transfer unit 112 is a part that transfers the bundled number of banknotes conveyed from the temporary stacking unit 110 to the banknote binding unit 114.

<1-8. Banknote Bundling Section 114>
The banknote bundling unit 114 creates a banknote bundle by, for example, winding a tape around the bundling number of banknotes transferred from the transfer unit 112 and binding them. The created banknote bundle is conveyed to a discharge port (not shown) and discharged outside the banknote processing apparatus 10.

<1-9. Overall processing flow>
Next, with reference to FIG. 2, the flow of the whole process of the banknote processing apparatus 10 common to each embodiment is demonstrated. FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an overall processing flow common to the embodiments.

  As shown in FIG. 2, first, the banknote handling apparatus 10 performs “payment processing” for accepting insertion of banknotes from a user, for example, during a deposit transaction (S11). The specific contents of the “payment process” will be described later.

  Then, the banknote processing apparatus 10 determines whether or not a predetermined condition such as a banknote transport error has been detected or a forced termination has been input by the user after the end of S11 or in the middle of S11. Judgment is made (S12). When the predetermined condition is not satisfied (S12: No), the banknote handling apparatus 10 repeats the operation of S11.

  On the other hand, when the predetermined condition is satisfied (S12: Yes), the banknote handling apparatus 10 restores the banknotes accumulated in the temporary stacking unit 110 before the occurrence of a failure or the like. (S13). The specific contents of the “return process” will be described later.

  Thereafter, the banknote handling apparatus 10 determines whether or not an input for completion of the return process has been made by the user to, for example, an operation display unit 116 (not shown) installed in the banknote handling apparatus 10 (S14). . When the completion of the return process is not input (S14: No), the banknote handling apparatus 10 repeats the operation of S14. On the other hand, when the completion of the return process is input (S14: Yes), the banknote handling apparatus 10 performs the operation of S11 again.

<< 2. Comparative Example of the Present Invention >>
The basic configuration of the banknote handling apparatus 10 common to the embodiments has been described above. Here, in order to clearly show the features of the present invention, a bill processing apparatus 90 according to a comparative example of the present invention will be described. In addition, since the basic composition of the banknote processing apparatus 90 is the same as that of the banknote processing apparatus 10 by this embodiment, description is abbreviate | omitted. Hereinafter, the operation contents according to the comparative example of the present invention will be described in “2-1-1. Deposit process” to “2-1-2. Return process”.

<2-1. Operation according to comparative example>
[2-1-1. Deposit processing]
FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing in detail the “payment processing” operation of S11 according to the comparative example of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 3, first, the user starts a deposit transaction by, for example, inputting desired transaction details on the operation display unit 116 (S901).

  Subsequently, the user inserts a bill into the input unit 100 according to, for example, an instruction displayed on the operation display unit 116 (S902).

  Then, the banknote processing apparatus 90 conveys the banknote thrown in S902 to the discrimination part 102. And the discrimination part 102 discriminate | determines the conveyed banknote (S903).

  Then, when the discrimination result in S903 is a banknote whose denomination is unacceptable or unacceptable (S904: Yes), the banknote processing apparatus 90 conveys the discriminated banknote to the reject pocket 104 (S905). Then, the banknote handling apparatus 90 ends the “payment process”.

  In addition, when the discrimination result in S903 is not the object to be conveyed to the reject pocket 104 (S904: No) and does not correspond to the discrimination type determined to be a binding object (S906: Yes), banknote processing The apparatus 90 conveys the identified banknote to the open pocket 106 (S907). Then, the banknote handling apparatus 90 ends the “payment process”.

  In addition, when the discrimination result in S903 is not the object to be conveyed to the reject pocket 104 (S904: No) and corresponds to the discrimination type determined to be a binding object (S906: No), banknote processing The apparatus 90 conveys the identified banknotes via the front / back reversing unit 108 to the temporary stacking unit 110 corresponding to the discrimination result among the plurality of temporary stacking units 110. And the temporary stacking part 110 by which the banknote was conveyed accumulate | stores the said banknote (S908).

  Subsequently, the banknote handling apparatus 90 stores the number of banknotes stacked in the corresponding temporary stacking unit 110 (S909).

  Subsequently, the banknote handling apparatus 90 determines whether or not the number of banknotes stacked in the corresponding temporary stacking unit 110 has reached the number of bound sheets (S910). When the number of stacked banknotes has not reached the number of bundled banknotes (S910: No), the banknote processing apparatus 90 ends the “payment process”.

  On the other hand, when the number of accumulated banknotes has reached the number of bundled sheets (S910: Yes), the banknote handling apparatus 90 collects all the banknotes accumulated in the temporary stacking section 110 in the banknote binding section 114. To the transfer unit 112. And the banknote binding part 114 produces a banknote bundle from the transferred banknote of the number of binding (S911).

  Thereafter, the banknote handling apparatus 90 updates the accumulated number stored in association with the corresponding temporary accumulation unit 110 to “0” (S912). Then, the banknote handling apparatus 90 ends the “payment process”.

[2-1-2. Return processing]
FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing in detail the operation of the “return process” in S13 according to the comparative example of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 4, first, the user opens the housing of the banknote handling apparatus 90, and then takes out all banknotes accumulated in the temporary stacking unit 110 (S920).

  Thereafter, the user reinserts a part of the taken banknotes into the input unit 100 (S921).

  Thereafter, the banknote handling apparatus 90 determines whether or not the number of banknotes currently accumulated in each temporary stacking unit 110 and the number of stacked sheets stored in association with each temporary stacking unit 110 are all equal ( S922). When they are all equal (S922: Yes), the banknote handling apparatus 90 ends the “return process”.

  On the other hand, when the number of accumulated banknotes is not equal to the stored number of accumulated banknotes for any one of the temporary stacking units 110 (S922: No), the banknote handling apparatus 90 then re-inserts. It is determined whether the conveyance of all the bills completed has been completed (S923).

  If the re-inserted banknote has not been transported (S923: No), the banknote handling apparatus 90 first transports one banknote that has not been transported from the input section 100 to the discrimination section 102. And the discrimination part 102 discriminate | determines the conveyed banknote (S924).

  The operations in S925 to S929 shown in FIG. 4 are substantially the same as the operations in S904 to S908 shown in FIG.

  On the other hand, when the transport of the banknotes re-inserted in S923 is completed (S923: Yes), the banknote processing apparatus 90 provides a message for adding and setting the banknotes in the input unit 100, for example, on the operation display unit 116. It is displayed (S930).

  Thereafter, the user re-inserts all or some of the remaining banknotes into the input unit 100 (S931). And the banknote processing apparatus 90 performs operation | movement of S922 again.

<2-2. Organizing issues>
As described above, the banknote handling apparatus 90 according to the comparative example of the present invention stores the number of banknotes accumulated in the temporary stacking unit 110 at the time of deposit processing, and is re-inserted at the time of return processing. Of the banknotes, the banknotes to be transported to the temporary stacking unit 110 are transported to the temporary stacking unit 110 until the number of stored stacks is reached.

  By the way, for example, in a situation where the number of banknotes is managed in transaction units, when a conveyance failure occurs during the transaction and the banknotes are taken out from the banknote processing device 90, the banknotes at the time of completion of the previous transaction. It is desirable to be able to recover to the storage state. That is, it is desirable that the same banknote as the banknote stored at the completion of the previous transaction is stored in the banknote processing apparatus 90 again.

  However, the banknote handling apparatus 90 can match only the number of banknotes. For this reason, for example, when a banknote different from the banknote taken out from the banknote processing apparatus 90 is inserted during the returning process, a banknote different from the banknote that is actually stored is stored in the banknote processing apparatus 90. There is a risk.

  Moreover, the following is mentioned as the 2nd subject by the comparative example of this invention. Usually, there is a limit to the accuracy of the discrimination performed by the discrimination unit 102. For example, the discrimination result of the state of the banknote, such as whether it is a genuine note or a damaged note, may be different between the deposit processing and the return processing. There is. For this reason, for example, in a situation where banknotes are set to be transported to different storage locations depending on whether they are regular or non-defective, the banknote handling apparatus 90 treats the re-inserted banknotes at the time of deposit processing. May be transported to different transport destinations, there is a possibility that a re-inserted banknote may not be returned to the temporary stacking unit 110. As a result, banknotes that do not return to the temporary stacking unit 110 must be manually counted and managed by the user.

  Then, it came to create the banknote processing apparatus 10 by each embodiment focusing on the said situation. The banknote handling apparatus 10 according to each embodiment can be restored to the banknote storage state at the time of completion of the previous transaction in a scene where the banknotes are re-inserted. Hereinafter, each embodiment will be described in detail.

<< 3. Detailed Description of Embodiment >>
<3-1. First Embodiment>
[3-1-1. Internal configuration]
First, the internal configuration of the banknote handling apparatus 10-1 according to the first embodiment will be described. FIG. 5 is a functional block diagram showing the internal configuration of the banknote handling apparatus 10-1 according to the first embodiment. As shown in FIG. 5, the banknote handling apparatus 10-1 includes a loading unit 100, a discrimination unit 102, a reject pocket 104, an open pocket 106, a front / back reversing unit 108, a temporary stacking unit 110, a transfer unit 112, and a banknote binding unit 114. , An operation display unit 116, a storage unit 118, and a control unit 120. In addition, below, description is abbreviate | omitted regarding the content which overlaps with description in 1 clause.

(3-1-1-1. Identification unit 102)
The discrimination unit 102 discriminates the banknote conveyed from the input unit 100 and acquires the serial number of the banknote. Here, the above function will be described in more detail with reference to FIG. FIG. 6 is an external view of an example of a banknote (banknote 20). As shown in FIG. 6, the banknote 20 includes a serial number printing column 200 in which serial numbers are printed in advance by a printing station. FIG. 6 shows an example in which “001” is printed as the serial number.

  For example, the discrimination part 102 reads the serial number of a banknote from the serial number printing column 200a or the serial number printing column 200b by OCR (Optical Character Recognition).

(3-1-1-2. Operation display unit 116)
The operation display unit 116 is an example of a display unit in the present invention. The operation display unit 116 is configured by a display having a touch panel, for example. The operation display unit 116 displays various operation screens, error messages, and the like according to the control of the control unit 120 described later.

  Further, the operation display unit 116 accepts various input operations on the banknote handling apparatus 10-1 by the user. For example, the operation display unit 116 accepts an input operation for transaction details by the user.

(3-1-1-3. Storage Unit 118)
The storage unit 118 is configured by, for example, an HDD (Hard Disk Drive). In the storage unit 118, for example, the discrimination result by the discrimination unit 102, the acquired serial number, and the transaction status relating to the identified banknote are stored in association with each other.

  FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing a configuration example of data stored in the storage unit 118. As shown in FIG. 7, for example, No 1180, denomination 1182, correctness 1184, front and back 1186, serial number 1188, transport destination 1190, and fixed fraction flag 1192 are recorded in association with each other in the storage unit 118. Here, in No. 1180, a data identification number is recorded. The denomination 1182 records the denomination of the corresponding banknote, such as a 10,000 yen bill or a 5,000 yen bill. In addition, the result of discrimination as to whether it is a correct ticket or a damaged ticket is recorded in the correct loss 1184. Also, the front and back 1186 records the front and back direction of the corresponding banknote at the time of discrimination. Moreover, the serial number acquired from the applicable banknote is recorded on the serial number 1188. Further, in the transport destination 1190, a storage destination where the corresponding banknote is transported in the deposit process is recorded. In the fixed fraction flag 1192, a value (determined fraction flag) for identifying the transaction status and the binding status regarding the corresponding bill is recorded. For example, in the fixed fraction flag 1192, “1” is recorded when the transaction related to the corresponding banknote is completed, and “0” is recorded when the transaction related to the corresponding banknote is not completed. The Further, “0” is recorded when the corresponding banknote is already bound (that is, when the corresponding banknote is transported to the banknote binding section 114 after being transported to the temporary stacking section 110).

  For example, in the data of the first record shown in FIG. 7, the data No is “001”, the discrimination result is “a bill of 10,000 yen bills and faced up at the time of discrimination”, and the bill serial number Is “001”, which indicates that the banknote is conveyed to the temporary stacking unit 110 called “stack 1”, and the value of the fixed fraction flag corresponding to the banknote is “1”. In the example shown in FIG. 7, for example, “10,000 yen bills” is “stack 1”, “10,000 yen bills” is “stack 2”, etc. It is assumed that the temporary stacking unit 110 is set to be conveyed.

(3-1-1-4. Control unit 120)
The control unit 120 determines a banknote transport destination based on the banknote discrimination result by the discrimination unit 102 during the deposit process.

  In addition, at the time of the return process, the control unit 120 determines whether the fixed fraction flag stored in the storage unit 118 in association with the serial number acquired from the re-inserted banknote is “1” (= transaction complete). Based on whether or not, the transport destination of the re-inserted banknote is determined.

-A. Example of determination when transaction is completed-
For example, when the fixed fraction flag stored in the storage unit 118 in association with the serial number acquired from the banknote at the time of the return process is “1”, the control unit 120 associates with the serial number. The location indicated by the transport destination 1190 stored in the storage unit 118 is determined as the transport destination of the re-inserted banknote. In the example illustrated in FIG. 7, when a banknote with the serial number “001” is re-inserted during the return process, the control unit 120 determines the transport destination of the banknote as “stack 1”.

  As a modification, when the fixed fraction flag stored in the storage unit 118 in association with the serial number acquired from the banknote at the time of the return process is “1”, the control unit 120 displays the serial number. The transport destination of the re-inserted banknote may be determined based on the discrimination result stored in the storage unit 118 in association with. In the example shown in FIG. 7, when a banknote having the serial number “001” is re-inserted, the control unit 120 corresponds to “a banknote with a 10,000 yen bill that was face up at the time of discrimination”. The attached place is determined as the conveyance destination of the banknote.

  As another modification, when the fixed fraction flag stored in the storage unit 118 in association with the serial number acquired from the banknote at the time of the return process is “1”, the control unit 120 performs the discrimination. Based on the discrimination result of the re-inserted banknote by the unit 102, the transport destination of the re-inserted banknote may be determined.

-B. Example of decision when transaction is not completed-
In addition, when the fixed fraction flag stored in the storage unit 118 in association with the serial number acquired from the banknote at the time of the return process is “0” (= incomplete transaction), the control unit 120 re- The conveyance destination of the inserted bill is determined as the reject pocket 104. In the example illustrated in FIG. 7, for example, when a banknote having a serial number “011” or “012” is reinserted, the control unit 120 determines the transport destination of these banknotes as the reject pocket 104.

-C. Example of determination when serial number is not recorded-
Moreover, the control part 120 determines the conveyance destination of the re-inserted banknote to the rejection pocket 104, when the serial number acquired from a banknote at the time of a return process is not memorize | stored in the memory | storage part 118. FIG.

  Here, the function of the control unit 120 will be described in more detail with reference to FIGS. FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a banknote storage state of the banknote handling apparatus 10-1 when a failure such as a banknote transport error occurs. In FIG. 8, for example, six banknotes having serial numbers “001” and “002” are stacked in the temporary stacking unit 110, and the serial numbers are “111”, “112”, and “113”. The three banknotes are stored in the open pocket 106. In addition, each banknote shown in FIG. 8 shall respectively respond | correspond to the data currently recorded on the memory | storage part 118 shown in FIG.

  Moreover, FIG. 9 is explanatory drawing which showed the condition (situation before performing a return process) where all the banknotes were taken out from the banknote processing apparatus 10-1 after the situation shown in FIG. FIG. 10 shows the banknote storage status immediately after the banknotes taken out from the temporary stacking unit 110 are re-inserted into the banknote processing apparatus 10-1 and the return process is executed after the situation shown in FIG. FIG.

  For banknotes with serial numbers “001”, “002”, and “003”, the fixed fraction flag stored in the storage unit 118 is “1”. The unit 120 transports each of the three banknotes to a place indicated by the transport destination 1190 stored in the storage unit 118 (that is, all three sheets are temporarily stacked 110). For banknotes with serial numbers “011”, “012”, and “013”, the fixed fraction flag stored in the storage unit 118 is “0”. Each bill is conveyed to the reject pocket 104.

  Regarding banknotes stored in the open pocket 106 when a failure occurs (that is, three banknotes with serial numbers “111”, “112”, and “113”), the user must use the banknote processing device according to the operation rules. Do not re-enter to 10-1.

[3-1-2. Operation]
The internal configuration according to the first embodiment has been described above. Next, the contents of the operation according to the first embodiment will be described in “3-1-2-1. Deposit process” to “3-1-2-2. Return process”.

(3-1-2-1. Deposit processing)
First, the operation of “payment processing” according to the first embodiment will be described. FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing in detail the operation of “payment processing” in S11 according to the first embodiment. 11 is the same as S901 to S903 according to the comparative example of the present invention shown in FIG.

  After S103, the discrimination unit 102 acquires the serial number from the banknote to be discriminated. Then, the control unit 120 records the acquired serial number and the discrimination result in S103 in association with each other in the storage unit 118 (S104).

  Furthermore, the control unit 120 records the confirmed fraction flag corresponding to the banknote as “0” in the storage unit 118 (S105).

  The operations in S106 to S107 are the same as those in S904 to S905 according to the comparative example of the present invention.

  After S107, the control unit 120 records the location where the banknote is conveyed in the storage unit 118 in association with the serial number of the banknote (S108).

  Then, the control part 120 determines whether the transaction regarding the said banknote was complete | finished (S109). If the transaction has not ended (S109: No), the control unit 120 performs the operation of S103 again.

  On the other hand, when the transaction is completed (S109: Yes), the control unit 120 relates to each banknote other than the banknote transferred to the banknote binding unit 114 by S116 described later among all the banknotes of the transaction in S104. The value of the fixed fraction flag recorded in the storage unit 118 in association with the acquired serial number is changed to “1” (= transaction completion) (S110). Thereby, the value of the fixed fraction flag is set to “1” for the banknotes accumulated in the temporary accumulation unit 110. And the banknote processing apparatus 10-1 complete | finishes a "payment process."

  The operations of S111 to S112 are the same as S906 to S907 according to the comparative example of the present invention. Further, after S112, the control unit 120 performs the operations after S108 described above.

  The operation of S113 is the same as that of S908 according to the comparative example of the present invention, and the operation of S114 is the same as the operation of S108 described above.

  After S114, the control unit 120 determines whether or not the number of banknotes stacked in the corresponding temporary stacking unit 110 has reached the number of bundles (S115). When the number of stacked banknotes has not reached the number of bundled sheets (S115: No), the control unit 120 performs the operation after S109 described above.

  On the other hand, when the number of stacked banknotes has reached the number of bundles (S115: Yes), the control unit 120 performs the same processing as S911 according to the comparative example of the present invention (S116). Thereafter, the control unit 120 performs the operations after S109 described above.

(3-1-2-2. Return processing)
Next, the operation of “return processing” according to the first embodiment will be described. FIG. 12 is a flowchart showing in detail the operation of the “return process” in S13 according to the first embodiment. 12 are the same as S920 to S921 according to the comparative example of the present invention shown in FIG.

  After S121, the control unit 120 extracts the serial numbers of all banknotes stored in the storage unit 118 and accumulated in the temporary accumulation unit 110. And the control part 120 determines whether conveyance of the banknote of all the extracted serial numbers was complete | finished (S122). When the conveyance of all the extracted banknotes with the serial numbers is completed (S122: Yes), the banknote processing apparatus 10-1 ends the “return process”.

  On the other hand, when the conveyance of one or more banknotes among the banknotes of the extracted serial numbers has not been completed (S122: No), the control unit 120 has completed the conveyance of all the banknotes reintroduced in S121. It is determined whether or not (S123).

  When conveyance of the re-inserted banknote is not completed (S123: No), the control unit 120 first conveys one banknote that has not been conveyed from the insertion unit 100 to the discrimination unit 102. And the discrimination part 102 acquires a serial number from the conveyed banknote (S124).

  Subsequently, the control unit 120 checks whether or not the serial number acquired in S124 is recorded in the storage unit 118 (S125). When the acquired serial number is not recorded in the storage unit 118 (S125: No), the control unit 120 conveys the banknote to the reject pocket 104 (S128). Then, the control unit 120 performs the operation of S122 again.

  On the other hand, when the acquired serial number is recorded in the storage unit 118 (S125: Yes), the control unit 120 next determines the fixed fraction recorded in the storage unit 118 in association with the serial number. It is determined whether or not the flag is “1” (S126). When the determined fraction flag is not “1” (S126: No), the control unit 120 performs the operation of S128 described above.

  When the determined fraction flag is “1” (S126: Yes), the control unit 120 conveys the banknote to the storage destination recorded in the storage unit 118 in association with the serial number (S127). Then, the control unit 120 performs the operation of S122 again.

  In S123, when conveyance of the re-inserted banknote is completed (S123: Yes), the control unit 120 performs the same operation as S930 according to the comparative example of the present invention (S129).

  Thereafter, when the user inputs forcible termination (S130: Yes), the control unit 120 first stores all the banknotes stored in the storage unit 118 and accumulated in the temporary stacking unit 110. Among the serial numbers, all serial numbers of banknotes not yet conveyed are specified. Then, the control unit 120 records all the identified serial numbers in the storage unit 118 (S132). According to this process, it becomes possible for the user to confirm a list of serial numbers of banknotes that have not been returned to the temporary stacking unit 110 later.

  Note that when the user inputs forcible termination, for example, one of the bills accumulated in the temporary stacking unit 110 becomes tattered, or a transport error occurs again during the return process. There may be a case where one or more banknotes accumulated in the temporary accumulation unit 110 cannot be returned due to the cause.

  After S132, the banknote handling apparatus 10-1 ends the “return process”.

  On the other hand, when the user does not input forced termination (S130: No), the user performs the same operation as S931 according to the comparative example of the present invention (S131). Thereafter, the control unit 120 performs the operation of S122 again.

-Modification-
As a modification of S132, the control unit 120 may further transmit all the recorded serial numbers to, for example, the user's terminal and display them, or transmit them to a printer and print them on paper. Also good.

[3-1-3. effect]
(3-1-3-1. Effect 1)
As described above, for example, as described with reference to FIGS. 5, 11, and 12, the banknote handling apparatus 10-1 according to the first embodiment acquires the serial number from the inserted banknote during the deposit process. And the acquired serial number and the fixed fraction flag regarding the said banknote are matched and memorize | stored. And the banknote processing apparatus 10-1 conveys the reinserted banknote based on the value of the fixed fraction flag memorize | stored in association with the serial number acquired from the reinserted banknote at the time of a return process. Determine the destination.

  For this reason, since the banknote processing apparatus 10-1 can determine whether or not the transaction related to the banknote has been completed with respect to the banknote reinserted during the return process, the banknote storage at the time of completion of the previous transaction is possible. It can be restored to the state.

(3-1-3-2. Effect 2)
Moreover, the banknote processing apparatus 10-1 matches and memorize | stores the serial number of the acquired banknote, and the storage destination where the said banknote was conveyed at the time of a money_receiving | payment process. For this reason, the banknote handling apparatus 10-1 can accurately transport the banknotes re-inserted during the return process to the same transport destination as during the deposit process. Therefore, since the situation where the re-inserted banknote cannot return to the temporary stacking unit 110 does not occur as in the comparative example of the present invention, for example, the user can manage the banknote that cannot be returned manually. It becomes unnecessary. As a result, the counting result at the time of the return process is further tightened.

<3-2. Second Embodiment>
The first embodiment has been described above. As described above, in the first embodiment, the banknote taken out from the open pocket 106 is a banknote that has been confirmed in operation, and is not re-inserted in subsequent transactions.

  However, it is also assumed that the banknote taken out from the open pocket 106 is re-inserted in a subsequent transaction due to, for example, a user's misrecognition. And when it is re-inserted, it is counted twice at the first input and at the re-input. However, since the bills to be conveyed to the open pocket 106 are originally designed on the assumption that they are counted only once, the counting results will not match.

  As will be described later, according to the second embodiment, when a banknote previously taken out from the open pocket 106 is reinserted, it is possible to notify the user of a warning for reintroduction.

[3-2-1. Internal configuration]
First, the internal configuration according to the second embodiment will be described in detail. FIG. 13 is a functional block diagram showing the internal configuration of the banknote handling apparatus 10-2 according to the second embodiment. As illustrated in FIG. 13, the banknote handling apparatus 10-2 newly includes a warning unit 122 as compared with the banknote handling apparatus 10-1 according to the first embodiment illustrated in FIG. Note that the functions of the other constituent elements are substantially the same as those of the first embodiment, and thus description thereof is omitted.

(3-2-1. Warning unit 122)
The warning unit 122 is a banknote in which the inserted banknote has been transported to the open pocket 106 in the past, and the confirmed fraction flag stored in the storage unit 118 in association with the banknote is “1” (= transaction complete) ), A warning display is displayed on the operation display unit 116.

  Here, with reference to FIG. 14 and FIG. 15, it demonstrates in detail about said function. FIG. 14 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of banknote storage status of the banknote processing apparatus 10-2 before the start of transaction, for example. In FIG. 14, three banknotes with serial numbers “001”, “002”, and “003” are stacked in the temporary stacking unit 110, and the serial numbers are “221”, “222”, “ The three banknotes “223” are extracted after being stored in the open pocket 106 in the past and stored in the dedicated storage 30. Note that the banknotes shown in FIG. 14 correspond to the data recorded in the storage unit 118 shown in FIG.

  FIG. 15 is an explanatory diagram showing a situation in which a subsequent transaction is started from the situation shown in FIG. 14 and a bill with the serial number “221” is re-inserted into the bill processing apparatus 10-2. .

  As for the banknote whose serial number is “221”, since the fixed fraction flag stored in the storage unit 118 is “1”, the banknote is re-transmitted to the banknote processing apparatus 10-2 as shown in FIG. When inserted, the warning unit 122 causes the operation display unit 116 to display a warning display such as “Please do not insert open pocket bills”.

[3-2-2. Operation]
The internal configuration according to the second embodiment has been described above. Subsequently, an operation according to the second embodiment will be described. The operation of “return processing” according to the second embodiment is the same as that of the first embodiment.

(3-2-2-1. Deposit processing)
FIG. 16 is a flowchart showing a part of the operation of the deposit process according to the second embodiment. The operations in S201 to S204 are the same as those in S101 to S104 according to the first embodiment.

  In S205, the control unit 120 determines whether or not the storage destination recorded in the storage unit 118 in association with the serial number acquired in S204 is the open pocket 106, and the fixed fraction flag is “1”. Is confirmed (S205). When the condition of S205 is not satisfied, the control unit 120 performs operations of S220 to S229 described later.

  On the other hand, when the condition of S205 is satisfied, the warning unit 122 displays a warning display on the operation display unit 116 (S206). Thereafter, the control unit 120 conveys the banknote to the reject pocket 104 (S207).

  The operations in S208 to S209 are the same as those in S109 to S110 according to the first embodiment.

  FIG. 17 is a flowchart showing operations after S220. As shown in FIG. 17, the operations in S220 to S229 are the same as those in S105 to S108 and S111 to S116 according to the first embodiment. Therefore, the description is omitted here.

[3-2-3. effect]
As described above, for example, with reference to FIGS. 13, 16, and 17, the banknote handling apparatus 10-2 according to the second embodiment allows banknotes inserted in deposit transactions to be stored in the open pocket 106 in the past. If the confirmed fraction flag stored in the storage unit 118 in association with the banknote is “1”, a warning display is displayed on the operation display unit 116, and the The bill is conveyed to the reject pocket 104.

  For this reason, when the banknote taken out from the open pocket 106 in the past is reinserted, a user can be alerted of an operation error. As a result, it can be expected that the user will not re-insert banknotes into the open pocket 106 in subsequent transactions, so that the possibility of inconsistencies in the counting results can be reduced.

<< 4. Modification >>
Although the preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, the present invention is not limited to such examples. It is obvious that a person having ordinary knowledge in the technical field to which the present invention pertains can come up with various changes or modifications within the scope of the technical idea described in the claims. Of course, it is understood that these also belong to the technical scope of the present invention.

  For example, in the above description, the example in which the banknote transport control method according to each embodiment is applied to the banknote processing apparatus 10 has been described, but the present invention is not limited to this example. For example, the present invention can be applied to a deposit / withdrawal management device or an automatic change machine that requires identification between confirmed cash and unconfirmed cash.

  Further, each step in the operation of each embodiment described above does not necessarily have to be processed in the order described. For example, the steps may be processed by changing the order as appropriate. Each step may be processed in parallel or individually instead of being processed in time series.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Banknote processing apparatus 30 Storage 90 Banknote processing apparatus 100 Insertion part 102 Discrimination part 104 Reject pocket 106 Open pocket 108 Front / back inversion part 110 Temporary accumulation part 112 Transfer part 114 Banknote binding part 116 Operation display part 118 Storage part 120 Control part 122 Warning Part

Claims (11)

A discrimination unit that discriminates bills inserted at the time of transaction and obtains the serial number of the bills;
A control unit that determines a transport destination of the banknote based on the banknote discrimination result;
A storage unit that stores the serial number of the acquired banknote and the transaction status relating to the banknote in association with each other;
With
The said control part determines the conveyance destination of the said reinjected banknote based on the transaction condition memorize | stored in the said memory | storage part in response to the serial number acquired from the reinjected banknote, The banknote processing apparatus .   The control unit associates the serial number acquired from the re-inserted banknote with the transaction status stored in the storage unit indicating whether the transaction has been completed. The banknote processing apparatus of Claim 1 which determines a conveyance destination. The storage unit further stores the serial number of the banknote and the transport destination information indicating the transport destination of the banknote determined by the control unit,
When the transaction status stored in the storage unit in association with a serial number acquired from the re-inserted banknote indicates transaction completion, the control unit correlates with the serial number and stores the storage unit The banknote processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein a place indicated by the transport destination information stored in is determined as a transport destination of the re-inserted banknote. The storage unit further stores the serial number of the banknote and the discrimination result of the banknote in association with each other,
When the transaction status stored in the storage unit in association with a serial number acquired from the re-inserted banknote indicates transaction completion, the control unit correlates with the serial number and stores the storage unit The banknote processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein a transport destination of the re-inserted banknote is determined based on a discrimination result stored in the banknote. The discrimination unit further discriminates the re-inserted banknote,
When the transaction status stored in the storage unit in association with the serial number acquired from the re-inserted banknote indicates the completion of transaction, the control unit displays the re-inserted banknote identification result. The banknote processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein a transport destination of the reinserted banknote is determined based on the banknote processing apparatus.   When the transaction status stored in the storage unit in association with the serial number acquired from the re-inserted banknote does not indicate the completion of the transaction, the control unit transports the re-inserted banknote Is determined as a discharge unit for discharging banknotes.   The said control part determines the conveyance destination of the said reinserted banknote to the said discharge part, when the serial number acquired from the said reinserted banknote is not memorize | stored in the said memory | storage part. The bill processing apparatus according to claim 1.   The banknote processing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein the banknote discrimination result includes information on a type of the banknote, a state of the banknote, or an orientation of the banknote at the time of discrimination. The banknote handling apparatus further includes a temporary stacking unit capable of transporting banknotes to be bound and stacking the transported banknotes up to a predetermined number.
The banknote processing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 8, wherein the banknote to be re-inserted includes a banknote taken out from the temporary stacking unit.   The banknote processing apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the time when the banknotes accumulated in the temporary stacking unit are taken out includes a case where conveyance of banknotes is stopped in the banknote processing apparatus. The banknote handling apparatus is configured to transport non-binding banknotes and store non-binding banknote storage units that store the banknotes transported.
The transaction status stored in the storage unit in association with the re-inserted banknote is a bank note that has been transported to the non-binding banknote storage unit in the past, and the transaction status indicates that the transaction has been completed. The bill processing apparatus according to claim 9 or 10, further comprising: a warning unit that displays a display indicating a warning about re-insertion on the display unit.

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