JP3500417B2 - Paper transport and automatic transaction equipment - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a paper sheet transporting device for carrying out a paper sheet transporting process, and a bill depositing / dispensing device for handling a bill as a paper sheet and continuously transporting a plurality of bills. The present invention relates to an automatic transaction device equipped with.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Among conventional paper sheet conveying apparatuses, for example, a banknote depositing / dispensing apparatus has a plurality of banknote storage sections for storing banknotes, and transfers banknotes between these banknote storage sections and a customer. A delivery path is connected to the delivery section, and the banknotes of the amount requested by the customer are delivered from the banknote storage section to be delivered to the delivery section after being delivered through the delivery path, or the banknotes that the customer has inserted into the delivery section are delivered. It is to be transported along the transport path and stored in the bill storage unit.

[0003]

DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION Problems to be Solved by the Invention
Since the transport path is longer than the length of the banknotes that are transported, a plurality of transport monitoring sensors are provided in the transport path, and when a transport monitoring sensor detects a transport failure, the transport of the banknote is stopped and the defective banknote is removed. After the removal, it will resume operation.

Conventionally, a banknote having a trouble has been manually removed, but a means for automatically performing this has also been proposed. For example, if a transport path is configured as an assembly of multiple independent transport paths with independent drive sources, and a transport monitoring sensor is provided on each independent transport path and a transport monitoring sensor detects a transport failure, a transport failure occurs. The banknotes remaining on the independent transport path on the upstream side and the independent transport path on the downstream side of the independent transport path including the banknotes are stored in predetermined storage portions, respectively, and the banknotes remaining on the transport path have a transport failure. After only the banknotes in the independent transport path including the banknotes are set, the banknotes are stored in another storage section.

Here, if the conveyance monitoring sensor on the front side of the conveyance direction detects a banknote and the conveyance monitoring sensor on the rear side of the conveyance direction cannot detect the banknote within a predetermined time, it is determined that the banknote is clogged. . In the case of such a conveyance failure, the banknote in which the conveyance failure has occurred is in a bad state, and therefore, when the banknote is conveyed again, another banknote may be caught and the degree of the conveyance failure may increase. Therefore, before re-conveying a banknote having a conveyance failure, an independent conveyance path upstream and an independent conveyance path downstream of the independent conveyance path including the banknote having the conveyance failure are provided so as to reduce the remaining banknotes on the conveyance path as much as possible. The operation of storing the banknotes remaining in the transport path in predetermined storage sections is performed.

On the other hand, although the banknotes should pass between the transport monitoring sensors one by one, it is detected that a plurality of banknotes detected by the preceding transport monitoring sensor have passed by the next transport monitoring sensor. It is considered that the counting mismatch is caused by an erroneous detection by the conveyance monitoring sensor or the like, or the overlapping bills are separated after the overlapping bills pass through the conveyance monitoring sensor and are detected as a plurality of sheets by the next conveyance monitoring sensor. If the counts do not match, the bills are conveyed in a nearly normal state, and the conveyance path is hardly clogged. However, even if a count mismatch is detected, the above-described automatic recovery control means is executed, so that there is a problem in that processing takes time and recovery of the device takes time.

[0007]

To solve the problems described above SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention provides a transport means to transport the sheets, stacked in the function and the housing part for integrated in the housing portion receives a paper sheet the paper sheet was separated, provided with a separating and stacking means having both a function of feeding said conveying means comprises a plurality of transport monitoring means for detecting the passage of the paper sheet to the transport means, the output of the conveyance monitoring means Upon recognizing the occurrence of a transport failure in counting mismatch sheet from along with to back <br/> the source feeding the paper sheets remaining in the separating and accumulating means separating feeding way to the conveying means, said conveying means the sheet generated a conveyance failure remaining conveying the including all sheet in one direction after being integrated into a predetermined storage unit, and a resume control means for conveying process of the sheet in It is a paper sheet conveying device.

As an automatic transaction device equipped with a bill depositing / dispensing device for transporting bills among paper sheets, a plurality of bill storage boxes capable of storing bills and delivering the stored bills, and a customer. an automatic teller machine and a bill transport path for transporting the paper currency and hospitality port for receiving the deposited paper currency with paying out dispensed banknotes, and the customer port and the bill storage respect, and the bill storage the customer port, separates the banknotes integrated with functions to integrate accept banknotes, has combined the functions to feed the paper money transport path, and provided with a separation stacking unit with independent drive source and the paper money transport path, The banknote transport path is provided with a plurality of transport monitoring means for detecting the passage of banknotes, and when the occurrence of a transport failure due to the count mismatch of the banknotes is recognized from the output of the transport monitoring means, the banknote
Together to return the bill feeding source remaining in the separation feeding course of separating and accumulating means to the conveying path, remaining in the bill transport path
One of including all bills bills generated conveyance failure is distilled
It is provided with a control means for restarting the banknote transport processing after the banknotes are transported in the direction and accumulated in a predetermined storage place.

[0009]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. The same elements are denoted by the same reference symbols throughout the drawings. The description of the present embodiment will be given along with an example of an automatic transaction device equipped with a banknote depositing / dispensing device having the most multifunctional function among the paper sheet processing apparatuses and having a complicated paper sheet conveying path.

FIG. 1 is a side view showing an example of an automatic transaction apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, a banknote deposit / withdrawal device 2 is built in an automatic transaction device 1. The banknote deposit / withdrawal device 2 performs banknote depositing and dispensing operations in response to customer depositing requests and payment requests. Inside the banknote depositing box A3 and banknote storing box B4a for storing banknotes, and abnormal banknotes. A depositing reject unit 4 for storing, a discriminating unit 5 for discriminating banknotes, a customer entrance 6 for accepting the banknotes to be deposited and paying out the banknotes to be deposited, storing the banknotes and supplementing the banknotes A3 and B4a with the banknotes. Alternatively, a replenishment / recovery cassette 7 for collecting, a banknote banknote storage box 8 for storing banknotes forgotten by the customer at the time of dispensing operation, and a banknote that has not been discriminated as a genuine note by the discriminating unit 5 at the time of dispensing operation or collecting operation. Rejected banknote storage 9
Are provided respectively.

At the upper part of the bill storage A3, a temporary holding section 10 is provided.
Is provided. The temporary holding unit 10 is provided with an openable / closable temporary holding plate 10a and a separating / feeding and accumulating roller 11 for separating and feeding and stacking the bills, and when the bill is stored in the bill storage A3, the temporary holding plate 10a is provided. The banknote 10a is closed and the banknotes are stacked by the separating and feeding and stacking roller 11 and temporarily held, and the banknotes that are temporarily held are stored in the banknote storage A3 by opening the temporary holding plate 10a from this state. In addition, the temporary holding plate 10a in a closed state in which bills are accumulated
It is also possible to take out the bills from above by the separating and feeding roller 11. Further, when the banknotes are dispensed from the banknote storage A3, by opening the temporary holding plate 10a,
By the separating and feeding and accumulating roller 11, the bills can be fed from the bill storage A3. A stage 3a is provided in the bill storage A3 so as to be vertically movable, and bills are stacked on the stage 3a.

The deposit / withdrawal reject unit 4 is provided with an openable / closable temporary holding plate 4b and a separating / feeding / collecting roller 4c for separating / feeding and stacking the bills. When storing rejected bills or the like, this temporary holding is performed. The plate 4b is closed and the bills are stacked by the separating and feeding and stacking roller 4c. Further, it is also possible to take out the bills from the temporary holding plate 4b in the closed state where the bills are accumulated by the separating and feeding and accumulating roller 4c. Further, when the banknotes are dispensed from the banknote storage B4a, the temporary storage plate 4b is opened, and the banknotes can be delivered from the banknote storage B4a by the separating and delivering and accumulating roller 4b. A stage 4d is vertically movable in the bill storage B4a, and bills are stacked on the stage 4d.

The discriminating section 5 discriminates the denomination, authenticity, running state, etc. of the bill. The discriminating unit 5 can discriminate both bills conveyed in both directions. The replenishment / recovery cassette 7 includes a separating / feeding roller 12 for separating and feeding out banknotes, and stacking rollers 13, 1 for drawing in the banknotes therein.
4 are provided. Further, a banknote storage unit 15 is provided corresponding to the separating / feeding roller 12, and a recovery unit 16 is provided corresponding to the stacking roller 13 for storing the recovered banknotes. In addition, a reject banknote storage unit 17 that stores banknotes determined to be unsuitable as payout banknotes is provided.

A stage 15a is vertically movable in the bill storage section 15, and bills are stacked on the stage 15a. The position of the stage 15a changes up and down depending on the number of bills, and the stage 15a rises as the separating and feeding roller 12 feeds the bills. Here, the replenishment / recovery cassette 7 includes a recovery unit 16 (not shown).
The banknotes stored in 1. are provided with a function of reloading the banknotes on the stage 15a, and the banknotes stored in the collection unit 16 can be used again for replenishment or withdrawal. The replenishment and collection cassette 7 can be attached to and detached from the automatic transaction device 1.

A banknote transport path 18 for transporting banknotes is provided between the above-mentioned units. Then, switching blades 19a to 19g for switching the banknote transport direction are provided at the respective branch points of the banknote transport path 18. The banknote transport path 18 is capable of bidirectionally transporting banknotes by driving a roller group and a belt group provided at predetermined positions. In front of the automated teller machine 1, a customer operation unit 20 operated by a customer.
Is provided. The customer operation unit 20 is composed of, for example, a touch panel with a display unit, etc., so that the customer can input the transaction type, transaction amount, personal identification number, etc.

A first separating and accumulating section (separating and accumulating section-1) 501 is provided in a portion of the customer service opening 6 which is connected to the bill transport path 18. The first separating and accumulating unit 501 separates the banknotes inserted into the customer service port 6 at the time of deposit and feeds them out to the banknote transport path 18, and receives the banknotes sent from the banknote transport path 18 at the time of dispense to serve the customer. It has a stacking function of transporting to the mouth 6 and stacking, and one mechanism is configured to carry back and forth bills in two directions of separation, feeding, receiving and stacking.

A second separating and accumulating section (separating and accumulating section-2) 502 including a separating and feeding accumulating roller 4c and the like is provided in a portion of the depositing and rejecting section 4 which is connected to the bill conveying path 18.
Is provided. The second separating and accumulating unit 502 separates the banknotes stacked on the stage 4d in the banknote storage B4a or the banknotes stacked on the temporary holding plate 4b in the closed state one by one to separate the banknote transport path 18 from each other. It is equipped with a separating function for sending out to and a collecting function for taking in the bills sent from the bill conveying path 18 into the deposit reject unit 4 and accumulating them on the temporary holding plate 4b in the closed state. The two-way reciprocating bill transport is composed of one mechanism.

A third separating and accumulating section (separating and accumulating section-3) 503 including a separating and feeding accumulating roller 11 and the like is provided in a portion of the temporary holding section 10 connected to the bill transport path 18. The third separating and accumulating unit 503 separates the banknotes stacked on the stage 3a in the banknote storage A3 or the banknotes stacked on the temporary holding plate 10a in the closed state one by one to separate the banknote transport path 18 from each other. It is equipped with a separating function for feeding out to and a collecting function for taking in the banknotes fed from the banknote conveying path 18 into the temporary holding section 10 and accumulating them on the temporary holding plate 10a in the closed state. The two-way reciprocating bill transport is composed of one mechanism.

A fourth separating and accumulating section (separating and accumulating section-4) 504 composed of separating and feeding rollers 12 and the like is provided in a portion of the replenishment / recovery cassette 7 which is connected to the bill transport path 18. The fourth separation / accumulation unit 504 has a separation function of separating the banknotes stacked on the stage 15a in the banknote storage unit 15 one by one and feeding them to the banknote transport path 18.
It has a stacking function of returning the banknotes that have not yet been completely transferred to the banknote transport path 18 to the banknote storage section 15 to the banknote storage unit 15 and stacking them on the stage 15a when the banknotes are being paid out. The reciprocating banknote transport is composed of one mechanism. In addition to the above configuration, the automatic transaction device 1 is provided with a passbook processing device, a statement slip printing device, a card processing device, and the like, which are not shown.

FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram of the bill depositing / dispensing apparatus showing the relation between the respective parts of the bill depositing / dispensing apparatus explained in FIG. 1, and the functional construction of the bill depositing / dispensing apparatus explained in FIG. 1 will be explained. The host controller interface 21 receives a command from the host controller of the banknote pay-in / pay-out device 2 described with reference to FIG. 22 is a transmission / reception circuit for receiving from 22 and returning to the upper control unit.

The banknote pay-in / pay-out device control section 22 is composed of a microcomputer or the like. When the operation instruction command is received from the host control section, it is decoded and the banknote pay-in / pay-out apparatus is operated via the I / O interface circuit 23. 2 outputs various signals for control to the mechanical unit 24 of
An input signal such as a sensor signal is received from the functional unit 24. Further, the bill depositing / dispensing device control unit 22 is a storage device such as a ROM or a hard disk in which programs and data are stored, and is for temporarily storing the steps and processing results of the programs while the programs are executing processing. It is connected to a storage device such as a RAM. The mechanical unit 24 operates under the control of the bill depositing / withdrawing device control unit 22, and is shown in FIG.
It is configured by the respective constituent elements described in. In the functional unit 24 of FIG. 3, the directions of arrows indicate the banknote transport direction and the banknote transfer direction.

FIG. 3 is a control block diagram of the bill depositing / dispensing apparatus. In the bill depositing / dispensing apparatus described with reference to FIG. 1, the separating / collecting unit and the independent conveying path controlled by the bill depositing / dispensing apparatus controller described with reference to FIG. Shows the configuration of. Banknote transport path 18
Is the first independent transport path (independent transport path-1) 505, the second
The independent transport path (independent transport path-2) 506 and the third independent transport path (independent transport path-3) 507 are assembled.

The first independent transport path 505 is an independent transport mechanism including a transport motor drive circuit 25, a motor 26 driven by the transport motor drive circuit 25, and rollers and belts driven by the motor 26. 27, a solenoid drive circuit 28, a group of switching blades 19 driven by the solenoid drive circuit 28, a conveyance monitoring sensor group 29, and the like. The second and third independent transport paths 506 and 507 have the same configuration.

The first separation / integration unit 501 includes a separation / integration motor drive circuit 30, and this separation / integration motor drive circuit 30.
It is composed of a motor 31 driven by, a separation and accumulation mechanism 32 composed of rollers and belts driven by the motor 31, a separation and accumulation monitoring sensor group 33, and the like. The second to fourth separation / collection units 502-504 have the same configuration.

The outputs of the conveyance monitoring sensor group 29 and the separated integrated monitoring sensor 33 are read by the sensor / switch reading circuit 34, and are sent to the banknote deposit / withdrawal device control section 22 described in FIG. 2 via the I / O interface circuit 23. Is entered. The output of the discriminating unit 5 is also input to the bill depositing / dispensing device control unit 22 via the I / O interface circuit 23.

The banknote pay-in / pay-out device control section 22 discriminates the authenticity of bills from the output of the conveyance monitoring sensor group 29, the separation / accumulation monitoring sensor 33, and the discrimination section 5, and the state of conveyance and separation / accumulation of bills. Make a decision. Then, the banknote pay-in / pay-out device control unit 22 rotates the motor instructing the banknote transport direction according to the type of transaction being executed, the authenticity or damage of the banknote, the transport state, the stacking state, and the like. The signal, the rotation speed signal of the motor for instructing the conveyance speed of the bill, and the braking signal of the motor for stopping the conveyance of the bill are supplied to the conveyance motor drive circuit 2
5, the transport motor drive circuit 25 receives the control signal to drive the motor 26, and the independent transport mechanism 27
The banknote transport operation is performed. In addition, the bill depositing / withdrawing device control unit 22 sends a blade switching signal indicating a conveyance direction of bills to the solenoid drive circuit 28, and the solenoid drive circuit 28 receives the control signal to drive the switching blade 19. The switching operation of the banknote transport direction is performed.

Further, the bill depositing / dispensing device control section 22 controls the rotation direction signal of the motor for instructing the separation / feeding or stacking of the banknotes, the rotation speed signal of the motor for instructing the speed of stacking / separating the banknotes, and the stacking / separation of the banknotes. Alternatively, a braking signal of a motor for stopping the stacking is sent to the separated integrated motor drive circuit 30, and the separated integrated motor drive circuit 30 receives this control signal to drive the motor 31, whereby the separating and stacking mechanism 32 separates and pays out the banknotes. An operation or an accumulation operation is performed. The transport monitoring sensor group 29 is arranged at least at the connecting portion between the separating and accumulating portion and the independent transport path, and at the connecting portion between the independent transport path and another independent transport path. Further, the separation / accumulation monitoring sensor 33 is provided in the banknote conveyance path in the vicinity of the separation / expansion / accumulation roller so that the state of the banknote in the middle of separation / expansion or accumulation can be detected.

The normal operation of each separating and accumulating section and each independent conveying path of the bill depositing / dispensing apparatus having the above construction will be described. The flow of bills in the normal state of the bill depositing / dispensing apparatus described with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 4 is a side view showing the flow of bills at the time of depositing. When depositing, the temporary holding plates 4b and 10a are closed and the bills inserted into the customer service port 6 are taken in and discriminated as normal by the discriminating section 5. The banknotes thus collected are stacked on the temporary storage plate 10a from the temporary storage unit 10, and the banknotes that have been identified as abnormal are stacked on the temporary storage plate 4b from the deposit reject unit 4. Then, when the deposit is confirmed, the banknotes on the temporary holding plate 4b are returned to the customer service port 6 and returned. When the service port 6 becomes empty, the temporary storage plate 10
The banknotes on a are returned to the customer service opening 6, the banknotes are taken in again, and the banknotes that have been discriminated by the discriminating unit 5 as 10,000 are temporarily stored in the temporary holding unit 10.
The banknotes that have been stacked on the temporary storage plate 10a from the banknotes and have been discriminated from the thousand-notes are stacked on the temporary storage plate 4b from the deposit reject unit 4. Then, when all the bills are sorted, the temporary holding plate 4
b and 10a are opened, the 10,000-yen bills on the temporary storage plate 10a are stored in the banknote storage A3, and the thousands of the bills on the temporary storage plate 4b are stored in the banknote storage B4a.

FIG. 5 is a side view showing the flow of banknotes at the time of withdrawal. When paying out millions of banknotes, the banknotes are dispensed from the banknote storage A3, and the banknotes discriminated as normal by the discriminating section 5 are The bills sent to the customer service opening 6 and discriminated as abnormal are sent to the reject bill storage 9. In addition, when paying out the thousands of bills, the thousands of bills are paid out from the bill storage B4a, the bills which are discriminated as normal ones by the discriminating unit 5 are sent to the customer service opening 6, and the bills discriminated as abnormal are reject bill storage. Send to 9. Then, when the bills of the requested denomination amount are gathered in the service port 6, they are collectively discharged.

FIG. 6 is a side view showing the flow of bills at the time of replenishment. At the time of replenishment, the temporary holding plates 4b and 10a are closed, and the bills are fed out from the bill storage section 15 of the replenishment / recovery cassette 7 to obtain a thousand bills. When replenishing both tickets, the discrimination section 5
The banknotes that have been discriminated as the thousand-notes are accumulated from the deposit reject unit 4 on the temporary holding plate 4b, and the bills that have been discriminated as 10,000 bills are accumulated from the temporary holding unit 10 on the temporary holding plate 10a. Further, the banknotes discriminated as abnormal are stored in the reject banknote storage unit 17. Further, when replenishing either one of the thousandth bill and the tenth million bill, even if the bill is normally a bill, a bill other than the refill target is stored in the collecting unit 16. Then, when the replenishment operation is completed, the temporary holding plates 4b and 10a are opened, the thousand notes on the temporary holding plate 4b are stored in the banknote storage B4a, and the 10,000 notes on the temporary storage plate 10a are stored in the banknote storage A3. To do.

FIG. 7 is a side view showing the flow of the bills at the time of collection. When collecting all the bills, the bills fed out from the bill storage A3 and bills which are discriminated as normal by the discriminating unit 5 are collected by the collecting unit 1.
The bills stored in No. 6 and discriminated as abnormal are sent to the reject bill storage 9. In the case of collecting the thousands of bills, the thousands of bills are fed out from the bill storage B4a, the bills that are discriminated as normal by the discrimination unit 5 are stored in the collection unit 16, and the bills discriminated as abnormal are rejected bill storage 9 Send to.

Next, the flow of the banknotes in the above-described normal time will be described focusing on the operations of the separating and accumulating section and the independent conveying path.
The first independent conveyance path 505 includes a discrimination section 5 that can discriminate banknotes regardless of the conveyance direction, and is provided between the first separating and accumulating section 501, the second independent conveyance path 506, and the third independent conveyance path 507. And the fourth separation and accumulation section 5 of the replenishment and recovery cassette 7
04 is also connected. This first independent transport path 505 is
At the time of deposit, a bill is sent from the first separating and accumulating unit 501, and the bill is sent to the second independent transport path 506. On the other hand, at the time of withdrawal, banknotes are sent from the second independent transport path 506, banknotes that are discriminated as normal by the discriminating unit 5 are conveyed to the first separating and accumulating unit 501, and banknotes that are discriminated as abnormal are the first. The transfer direction is switched by the blade 19a so that the banknotes are transferred to the third independent transfer path 507, and all banknotes are sent to the third independent transfer path 507 at the time of collection. At the time of replenishment, the banknotes sent from the fourth separating and accumulating unit 504 are sent to the second independent transport path 506.

The second independent transport path 506 is located between the first independent transport path 505 and the third independent transport path 507, and is provided between the second separating and accumulating section 502 of the deposit reject section 4 and the temporary holding section 10. This is a portion that is also connected to the third separation and accumulation unit 503. Among the bills sent from the first independent transport path 505 at the time of deposit, the bills that are discriminated as normal by the discriminating unit 5 are switched to the third separating and accumulating unit 503 by the conveying direction, and are sorted by the blades 19c and 19d to cause an abnormality. The banknotes that have been discriminated as are distributed to the second separating and accumulating unit 502 by switching the conveying direction by the blade 19c. At the time of withdrawal and collection, the second separation and accumulation unit 502 and the third separation and accumulation unit 5
The banknotes that are separated and fed out one by one from 03 are received and sent to the first independent transport path 505. At the time of replenishment, the bills sent from the first independent transport path 505 are sorted by the blades 19c and 19d for switching the transport direction according to the denomination discrimination result in the discrimination unit 5, and, for example, ten thousandth bill is the third bill.
To the separation and collection unit 503 of the second separation and collection unit 502
Send to. Further, when a denomination that is not a replenishment target is transported, it is sent to the third independent transport path 507 by the switching blade 19d.

Banknotes are sent from the first independent carrier path 505 to the third independent carrier path 507 at the time of withdrawal and collection, and from the second independent carrier path 506 at the time of replenishment. According to the discrimination result of No. 3, the changeover blades 19e and 19f sort the bills into the collecting unit 16, the reject bill storage unit 17, or the reject bill storage 9 and store them. Further, in the banknote taking-in operation such as when the banknote is forgotten to be removed from the customer service port 6 for returning the dispensed banknote or the deposited reject banknote, the first separating and accumulating unit 501
The first independent conveyance path 505
The second independent transport path 506 is sequentially transported and is delivered to the third independent transport path 507, and the switching blade 19g is driven to store it in the forgotten banknote storage box 8.

Next, the automatic recovery operation in the event of a transport failure will be described. The transport failure in the present invention refers to a state where a counting mismatch occurs in the independent transport path, between the separating and accumulating section that has delivered the bill and the independent transport path, or between the independent transport path and the independent transport path. is there.

First, the automatic recovery operation when a transfer failure occurs during the dispensing operation described with reference to FIG. 5 will be described. 8 and 9 are side views showing the flow of banknotes at the time of abnormal dispensing, FIG. 8 is a stage in which banknotes remaining in the banknote transport path 18 are stored in the reject banknote storage 9, and FIG. It shows the stage of collecting the bills sent to. Here, it is assumed that the location where the transport failure has occurred is the first independent transport path 505. (1) When the banknote pay-in / pay-out device control unit 22 determines that a transport failure has occurred from the output of the transport monitoring sensor group 29 of the first independent transport path 505, the banknote transport motor and the banknote transport motor that transports the banknote The driving of the motor of the separation / collection unit, which has separated or fed out, is stopped. Next, the second separating and accumulating unit 502 and the third separating and accumulating unit 5 corresponding to the upstream conveyance path of the first independent conveyance path 505, which is the location where the conveyance failure occurs.
Of the banknotes 03, the motor of the separating / collecting unit that is delivering the banknotes from the banknote storage A3, the banknote storage B4a is rotated in the direction in which the banknotes are stacked, and the banknotes remaining in the separating / stacking unit are stored in the banknote storage A3, the banknotes. It is accumulated in the storage B4a. (2) The motors of the third independent transport path 507 located downstream of the location where the transport failure occurs, the first independent transport path 505 serving as the location of the transport failure, and the second independent transport path 506 located upstream of the location where the transport failure occurs. The banknotes on the banknote transport path 18 including the banknotes in which the banknotes have a transport failure are rotated as shown in FIG. Collect in the storage 9. (3) Finally, as shown in FIG. 9, the banknotes accumulated in the service opening 6 are separated and fed out one by one by the first separating and accumulating unit 501 and sent to the first independent transport path 505. In the first independent transport path 505, denomination discrimination is performed in the discrimination section 5, and the bills that have been discriminated from the thousand-notes pass through the deposit reject section 4 by the second independent transport path 506 and the second separation and accumulation section 502. The bill is stored in the bill storage B4a. In addition, the banknotes that have been discriminated as all-around bills are stored in the banknote storage A3 through the temporary storage section 10 by the second independent transport path 506 and the third separating and accumulating section 503.
Further, the banknotes whose denomination cannot be discriminated are stored in the reject banknote storage 9 by the second independent transport path 506 and the third independent transport path 507.

By the above operation, the banknotes on the banknote transport path including the banknotes that have caused the transport failure are stored in the reject banknote storage, and the banknotes that can be reused for withdrawal are returned to the respective banknote storages. , The remaining banknotes on each independent transport path and the separation and stacking unit are eliminated, and the dispensing operation can be restarted. Then, since the bills other than the bills accumulated in the reject bill storage 9 can be re-counted, cash trouble can be prevented and the failure occurrence rate can be reduced.

Next, the automatic recovery operation in the case where a conveyance failure occurs during the deposit operation described in FIG. 4 will be described. 10, FIG. 11, and FIG. 12 are side views showing the flow of banknotes at the time of abnormal deposit, FIG. 10 is a stage in which banknotes remaining in the banknote transport path 18 are returned to the customer service port 6, and FIG. 12 shows a step of returning the banknotes accumulated in 1 to the customer service port 6, and FIG. 12 shows a step of returning the banknotes accumulated in the temporary holding section 10 to the service customer port 6. Here, the location where the transport failure occurs is the first independent transport path 5
Let's say 05. (1) When the banknote pay-in / pay-out device control unit 22 determines that a transport failure has occurred from the output of the transport monitoring sensor group 29 of the first independent transport path 505, the banknote transport motor and the banknote transport motor that transports the banknote The driving of the motor of the separation / collection unit, which has separated or fed out, is stopped. Next, the motor of the first separating and accumulating unit 501, which is the upstream conveying path of the first independent conveying path 505, which is the position where the conveying failure occurs, is rotated in the direction in which the banknotes are accumulated, and the banknotes in the first separating and accumulating unit 501. Are collected in the service opening 6. (2) The first independent transport path 50, which is the location where the transport failure occurs
5, a first separating and accumulating section 501 which is downstream thereof, and a second independent transport 50 which is upstream of the location where the transport failure occurs.
The motor of No. 6 is rotated in the direction opposite to the depositing operation, and
As shown in FIG. 3, the residual banknotes on the banknote transport path 18 including the banknotes having the transport failure are accumulated in the customer service port 6. (3) First separation / collection unit 501, first independent transport path 5
05, while rotating the motor of the second independent transport path 506 in the direction opposite to the depositing operation,
The motor No. 2 is rotated in the separating and feeding direction, and as shown in FIG. 11, the banknotes accumulated on the temporary holding plate 4b are transferred to the service port 6
Accumulate in. When the banknotes on the temporary holding plate 4b are exhausted, the motor of the third separating and accumulating unit 503 is rotated in the separating and feeding direction, and the banknotes stacked on the temporary holding plate 10a are stacked on the customer service port 6 as shown in FIG. To do.

By the above operation, all the banknotes before the payment is fixed are returned to the customer service port 6, and there are no remaining banknotes on the respective independent transport paths and the separating and accumulating section, so that the payment operation can be restarted. And since all the inserted banknotes can be returned to the customer service port and recounted, cash troubles can be prevented,
The failure rate can be reduced.

Next, the automatic recovery operation when a conveyance failure occurs during the replenishment operation described with reference to FIG. 6 will be described. FIGS. 13, 14, and 15 are side views showing the flow of banknotes at the time of abnormal replenishment, FIG. 13 is a stage in which banknotes remaining in the banknote transport path 18 are sent to the reject banknote storage unit 17, and FIG. 14 is a deposit reject. A step of sending the banknotes accumulated in the section 4 to the collection section 16 or the reject banknote storage section 17 according to the discrimination result, FIG.
Shows the stage of sending the banknotes accumulated in the temporary holding section 10 to the collection section 16 or the reject banknote storage section 17 according to the discrimination result. Here, it is assumed that the location where the transport failure has occurred is the first independent transport path 505. (1) When the banknote pay-in / pay-out device control unit 22 determines that a transport failure has occurred from the output of the transport monitoring sensor group 29 of the first independent transport path 505, the banknote transport motor and the banknote transport motor that transports the banknote The driving of the motor of the separation / collection unit, which has separated or fed out, is stopped. Next, the motor of the fourth separating and accumulating unit 504, which has separated and fed out the bills from the bill storage unit 15 of the replenishment / recovery cassette 7, is set to the bill storage unit 1.
The banknotes in the fourth separation and stacking unit 504 are stacked in the banknote storage unit 15 by rotating the banknotes in the direction in which the banknotes are stacked in the banknote 5. (2) Next, the first independent transport path 505, which is the location where the transport failure has occurred, and the second independent transport path 506, which is the downstream thereof.
And the motor of the third independent transport path 507 is rotated in the same direction as the replenishment operation, and as shown in FIG. 13, the remaining banknotes on the banknote transport path 18 including the banknotes in which the transport failure has occurred are rejected. Collect to. (3) When there are accumulated banknotes on the temporary holding plate 4b and the temporary holding plate 10a, the motors of the first independent transport path 505, the second independent transport path 506, and the third independent transport path 507 are replenished. While rotating in the same direction as the collecting operation, which is the opposite of the operation, and rotating the motor of the second separating and accumulating unit 502 in the separating and feeding direction, as shown in FIG. 1 independent transport path 505
Send to. In the first independent conveyance path 505, discrimination is performed by the discrimination section 5, banknotes discriminated as normal are accumulated in the collecting section 16 from the third independent conveyance path 507, and banknotes discriminated as abnormal are the third independent conveyance path 507. From the transport path 507 to the reject bill storage unit 1
Collect in 7. When the banknotes on the temporary holding plate 4b are exhausted, the motor of the third separating and accumulating unit 503 is rotated in the separating and feeding direction, and the temporary holding plate 10a is rotated as shown in FIG.
The banknotes accumulated above are sent to the first independent transport path 505. In the first independent conveyance path 505, discrimination is performed by the discrimination section 5, banknotes discriminated as normal are accumulated in the collection section 16 from the third independent conveyance path 507, and bills discriminated as abnormal are the third independent conveyance path 507. The paper money is accumulated in the reject banknote storage unit 17 from the transport path 507.

By the above operation, the banknotes on the banknote transport path containing the banknotes that have caused the transport failure are stored in the reject banknote storage unit 17, and the banknotes that can be returned for replenishment are stored in the collection unit 16 of the replenishment / recovery cassette 7. Since the bills are stored, there are no remaining banknotes on each independent transport path and the separation and stacking unit, and the replenishment operation can be restarted. Then, since the bills other than the bills accumulated in the reject bill storage unit 17 can be re-counted, cash trouble can be prevented and the failure occurrence rate can be reduced.

Next, the automatic recovery operation when a transport failure occurs during the recovery operation described with reference to FIG. 7 will be described. FIG. 16 is a side view showing the flow of banknotes at the time of recovery abnormality.
Indicates the stage of sending the bills remaining in the bill transport path 18 to the reject bill storage 9. Here, it is assumed that the location where the transport failure has occurred is the first independent transport path 505. (1) When the banknote pay-in / pay-out device control unit 22 determines that a transport failure has occurred from the output of the transport monitoring sensor group 29 of the first independent transport path 505, the banknote transport motor and the banknote transport motor that transports the banknote The driving of the motor of the separation / collection unit, which has separated or fed out, is stopped. Next, the second separating and accumulating unit 502 and the third separating and accumulating unit 5 corresponding to the upstream conveyance path of the first independent conveyance path 505, which is the location where the conveyance failure occurs.
Of the banknotes 03, the motor of the separating / collecting unit that is delivering the banknotes from the banknote storage A3, the banknote storage B4a is rotated in the direction in which the banknotes are stacked, and the banknotes remaining in the separating / stacking unit are stored in the banknote storage A3, the banknotes. It is accumulated in the storage B4a. (2) Next, the first independent transport path 505, which is the location where the transport failure has occurred, and the third independent transport path 507, which is the downstream thereof.
And, the motor of the second independent transport path 506, which is upstream of the location where the transport failure occurs, is rotated in the collecting operation direction to reject the residual banknotes on the banknote transport path 18 including the banknote in which the transport failure has occurred, as shown in FIG. The bills are accumulated in the bill storage 9.

By the above operation, since there is no remaining banknote on each independent transport path and the separating and accumulating section, the collecting operation can be restarted. And reject bill storage 9
Since it is possible to re-count other than the banknotes accumulated in, it is possible to prevent cash troubles and reduce the failure occurrence rate.

[0045]

As described above, according to the present invention, the transport means is provided with a plurality of transport monitoring means for detecting the passage of the paper sheets, and the transport failure of the count mismatch of the paper sheets from the output of the transport monitoring means. When the occurrence of the sheet is recognized, the sheet remaining in the separating and accumulating means in the middle of separating and feeding out the sheet by the separating and accumulating means on the upstream side in the sheet conveying direction with respect to the conveying means including the sheet having the conveyance failure. After returning all the paper sheets remaining in the conveyance means including the paper sheet having the conveyance trouble to the predetermined storage section, the paper sheet conveyance processing is restarted. Therefore, it is possible to remove all the paper sheets remaining in the conveying means including the paper sheet having the conveyance trouble in a short time, and it is possible to recover in a short time.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side view showing an example of an automatic transaction device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram of a banknote deposit / withdrawal device.

FIG. 3 is a control block diagram of the banknote deposit / withdrawal device.

FIG. 4 is a side view showing the flow of banknotes when depositing money.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing a flow of banknotes at the time of withdrawal.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing the flow of bills at the time of replenishment.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing the flow of bills at the time of collection.

FIG. 8 is a side view showing a flow of banknotes at the time of abnormal dispensing.

FIG. 9 is a side view showing the flow of banknotes at the time of abnormal dispensing.

FIG. 10 is a side view showing a flow of banknotes when a deposit is abnormal.

FIG. 11 is a side view showing a flow of banknotes when a deposit is abnormal.

FIG. 12 is a side view showing a flow of banknotes when a deposit is abnormal.

FIG. 13 is a side view showing a flow of banknotes when a replenishment is abnormal.

FIG. 14 is a side view showing the flow of banknotes when a replenishment is abnormal.

FIG. 15 is a side view showing the flow of banknotes when a replenishment is abnormal.

FIG. 16 is a side view showing the flow of banknotes at the time of abnormal collection.

[Explanation of symbols]

3 banknote storage A 4 Deposit Rejection Department 4a Banknote storage B 5 Discrimination Department 6 service entrance 10 Temporary holding section 18 bill transport path 501 Separation and Accumulation Unit-1 502 Separation and collection unit-2 503 Separation and Accumulation Unit-3 504 Separation and Accumulation Unit-4 505 Independent transport path-1 506 Independent transport path-2 507 Independent transport path-3

─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of front page (72) Inventor Naohiro Yamada 1-7-12 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. (72) Yasuhisa Ogawa 1-7-12 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. (56) Reference JP-A-6-295369 (JP, A) (58) Fields investigated (Int.Cl. ⁷ , DB name) G07D 9/00

Claims (6)

(57) [Claims] To 1. A transport means to transport the sheets to separate functions and paper sheet accumulated in the storage unit to accumulate in the storage portion receives a paper sheet, the combined function of feeding out the transport means Along with the separation and accumulating means having, a plurality of conveyance monitoring means for detecting the passage of the paper sheets in the conveying means, when the occurrence of the conveyance failure of the counting mismatch of the paper sheets is recognized from the output of the conveyance monitoring means, together to return to the original feed the paper sheets remaining on the separation feeding during the separating and stacking means to said conveying means, the sheet of including all sheet generated a conveyance failure remaining in the conveyance means A paper sheet transporting apparatus comprising: a control unit that restarts the transport processing of the paper sheets after the paper sheets are transported in one direction and accumulated in a predetermined storage unit. 2. A plurality of banknote storages capable of storing banknotes and feeding out stored banknotes, a customer port for paying out dispensed banknotes to a customer and accepting deposited banknotes, said customer port and banknotes an automatic teller machine and a bill transport path for transporting bills to and from the repository, the bill storage and customer port, separates the banknotes integrated with functions to integrate accept bills, the bill transport path And a plurality of conveyance monitoring means for detecting passage of bills in the bill conveyance path, and a conveyance collection means having a drive source independent of the bill conveyance path When the occurrence of a conveyance failure due to the count mismatch of the bills is recognized from the output of the above, the bills remaining in the separating and accumulating means on the way to the bill feeding path are returned to the bill feeding source.
Together be, after integration into predetermined storage locations bills generated conveyance failures remaining in the bill conveying passage conveys the including all bills in one direction, the resume control unit the transport process of the bill An automatic transaction device characterized by being provided. 3. The automatic transaction apparatus according to claim 2, wherein during a dispensing operation in which a bill of a desired denomination amount is separated from a bill storage and sent to a customer service port, the control unit is configured to perform the conveyance monitoring means. Upon recognizing the occurrence of a transport failure from the output of the bill counting mismatch with to return to the bill storage of source feeding the bills remaining in the separation feeding during the separating and stacking means to said bill transport path, the bill transport path and convey the bills generated conveyance failures remaining to including all bills to the dispensing direction are integrated in the reject banknote storage box in the bill storage, integrated already in the bill to customer port Repetitive out source An automatic transaction device characterized by being returned to the banknote storage. 4. A automatic transaction apparatus according to claim 2, when the deposit operation to send the bills inserted into customer port to a Jo Tokoro of the bill storage, the control unit of the bill from the output of the conveyance monitoring means Upon recognizing the occurrence of a transport failure in counting mismatches, the
Together to return to reception opening the bill remaining in the separation feeding course of separating and accumulating means to the bill feeding path, a bill generated conveyance failures remaining in the bill transport passage and deposit operations of including all bills An automatic transaction device, which conveys paper in the opposite direction and accumulates it at a customer entrance, and further accumulates banknotes already accumulated in a banknote storage at the customer entrance. 5. The automatic transaction apparatus according to claim 2, wherein during a replenishment operation of feeding a replenishment bill from one bill storage to another bill storage, the control unit counts the bills from the output of the conveyance monitoring means. Upon recognition of the occurrence of a transport failure of disagreement, before
Serial together to return to replenish source bill storage bills remaining in the separating and accumulating means separating feeding way to bill transport path, the bill transport path to the residue to including all bills bills generated conveyance failure has Automatically characterized in that the bills are conveyed in the same direction as the replenishment operation and accumulated in the reject bill storage in the bill storage, and the bills accumulated in the replenishment destination bill storage are returned to the replenishment source bill storage. Trading equipment. 6. The automatic transaction device according to claim 2, wherein during the collecting operation of sending the collected banknotes from one banknote storage box to another banknote storage box, the control section counts the banknotes from the output of the transfer monitoring means. Upon recognition of the occurrence of a transport failure of disagreement, before
Serial bills remaining with be returned to recovery original bill storage into the separating and accumulating means separating feeding way to bill transport path, the bill transport path to the residue to including all bills bills generated conveyance failure has The automatic transaction device, which conveys the bills in the collecting operation direction and accumulates them in the reject bill storage in the bill storage.