JP3511236B2 - Paper sheet handling 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 handling apparatus, and more particularly to a defective banknote or an unknown banknote deposited in an automatic teller machine (ATM) used in banks and the like. The present invention relates to a paper sheet handling device characterized by a defective ticket returning mechanism for preventing forgetting to take a ticket when returning it.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, an automatic teller machine (ATM) has been widely used for deposit and withdrawal of cash in banks and the like. At the time of feeding, the inserted bills are pressed against the feeding roller, and the bills pressed by the rotation of the feeding roller are sequentially fed to the bill conveying path one by one.

Here, the conventional automatic teller machine and the inserted bill feeding unit will be described with reference to FIGS. 7 to 9. See FIG. 7. FIG. 7 is a schematic perspective view showing an example of the automatic teller machine. A touch panel 31 is provided on the front surface of the automatic teller machine 30, and options are displayed on the screen of the touch panel 31. A key button, a numeric keypad, or a character key to be operated is displayed, and a desired operation is performed by touching these keys.

Further, the automatic teller machine 30 is provided with a cash card insertion slot 32, a passbook insertion slot 33, a bill insertion slot 34, a coin insertion slot 36, etc., and the bill insertion slot 34 and the coin insertion slot. Each opening 36 has an opening / closing door 3
5, 37 are provided. Note that the bill insertion slot 34 and the coin insertion slot 36 become a bill ejection slot and a coin ejection slot when paying cash.

See FIG. 8. FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram for explaining a conveyance path of a bill, and the bill insertion port 34 has a deposit stage 42 as a partition member and a dispense stage 43 as a pressing member. A payout unit 41 is provided, and the banknotes inserted on the left side of the deposit stage 42 in the figure are pressed against the payout roller 44 by moving the deposit stage 42 to the left side, and pass through a pair of transport rollers 45 one by one. It is delivered to the transport path.

The bills fed out are bills (that is, genuine bills) and paper sheets other than the bills (extremely damaged bills, counterfeit bills, receipts, etc.) in the discrimination section 46 provided in the middle of the conveying path. And the total amount of genuine bills is calculated.

The selected genuine bills are stored in the temporary storage chamber 47 by controlling the branching member provided at the branching portion of the transport path, while the paper sheets other than the banknotes determined not to be receivable are stored. After being returned to the bill feeding unit 41, the customer who is the proctor will pick up the bill from the bill insertion slot 34. If the deposit procedure is canceled at this point, the genuine bill stored in the temporary storage room 47 passes through the discrimination section 46 again and is returned to the bill feeding unit 41, so that the customer picks it up from the bill slot 34. become.

Next, when the deposit procedure is confirmed, the genuine bills stored in the temporary storage room 47 are sent to the discrimination section 46 again and reusable bills and non-reusable bills, that is, broken bills. Banknotes that have been sorted into tickets and 5,000-yen bills and determined not to be reused are sent to the genuine note collection chamber 48 and collected.

On the other hand, the banknotes judged to be reusable are sorted into 10,000-yen bills and 1,000-yen bills by type, and the sorted 10,000-yen bills are stored in the 10,000-yen bill storage chamber 49. The yen bills are stored in the 1,000-yen bill storage chamber 50, respectively. The paper sheets left in the bill feeding unit 41 due to the forgetting of the customer who is the proctor is fed to the transport path by the feeding roller 44, passes through the discriminating unit 46 again, and is collected in the collecting box 51. In addition, reference numerals 52,
53 is a width sensor and a thickness sensor, respectively.

Next, the construction of the bill feeding unit 41 will be described with reference to FIG. See FIG. 9. FIG. 9 is a cross-sectional view showing a schematic configuration of the banknote payout unit 41, in which the opening / closing door 35 of the banknote slot 34 is opened by the depositing operation of the customer who is the procedural operator, and the left wall in the figure and the depositing stage Banknotes 55 are inserted into the banknote receiving chamber 54 between the banknotes 42 and 42. Opening and closing door 35 when bill 55 is inserted
And close the deposit stage 42 to the deposit stage rail 56.
Move to the left along the
The bill 55 is pushed to the feeding roller 44 by advancing to the first forward path 57 on the lower side of the character portion, and is fed to the conveying path one by one by the feeding roller 44. In this case, the movable feeding member 58 provided on the depositing stage 42 is located on the lower end side of the depositing stage 42 to press the banknote 55 against the dispensing roller 44.

On the other hand, among the bills 55 fed out, the paper sheets judged to be paper sheets other than the banknotes, that is, unknown notes such as receipts, and bad notes such as extremely damaged notes or counterfeit notes are The banknote delivery unit 41 is returned to the banknote delivery chamber 59 between the depositing stage 42 and the dispensing stage 43, and the opening / closing door 35 is opened.
Is opened and the customer takes it from the bill slot 34.

On the other hand, when a large number of banknotes 55 are caught in the inserted banknotes 55 or a large number of banknotes are bundled, the banknotes cannot be paid out by the payout roller 44. The bill remains in the bill insertion slot 34 and is returned to the customer.

In this case, in the deposit payout process,
Since the deposited banknotes and the returned banknotes are partitioned by the deposit stage 42, the deposit stage 42 is moved in a direction substantially perpendicular to the deposit stage rail 56, and the bill receiving chamber 54 is moved.
As a room integrated with the banknote delivery room 59, two types of return paper sheets, that is, a high-load medium that cannot be fed out and a paper sheet that is determined to be a paper sheet other than a banknote, are collectively returned. Was there.

[0014]

However, when the two types of return paper sheets are returned together, the depositing stage 42 is moved substantially vertically to the depositing stage rail 56 so as to be retracted. However, there is a problem in that a complicated mechanism is required, resulting in high cost.

Further, a high-load medium in which the bill receiving chamber 54 cannot be drawn out without retracting the depositing stage 42, and paper sheets judged to be paper sheets other than the banknotes in the banknote delivery chamber 59,
Although it can be configured to be taken out by the customer, there is a problem that the bill insertion port 34 needs to be wide and the device becomes large.

On the other hand, if the bill slot 34 is not widened, the apparatus can be miniaturized, but if this is done, the maximum number of deposits will be reduced, and the width of the bill slot 34 will inevitably be narrowed, resulting in a high load. There is a problem that the operability of extracting paper sheets judged to be paper sheets other than the medium and banknotes is extremely deteriorated.

Therefore, it is an object of the present invention to improve the operability of extracting undeliverable tickets, unknown tickets, or defective tickets and prevent forgetting to remove them without widening the paper sheet inlet. To do.

[0018]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory view of the principle configuration of the present invention, and means for solving the problems in the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. See FIG. 1 (1) In the present invention, among the paper sheet receiving chamber 6 that receives paper sheets such as banknotes that have been inserted and the paper sheets that have been input, it is determined that they are defective paper sheets or unknown paper sheets. In a paper sheet handling apparatus provided with a paper sheet delivery unit 1 in which a paper sheet delivery chamber 7 for delivering paper sheets is partitioned by a movable partition member 4,
The movable partition member 4 and the pressing member 5 forming the rear end of the paper sheet delivery chamber 7 are sequentially moved with the opening / closing door 3 provided in the paper sheet feeding port 2 of the paper sheet feeding unit 1 being opened. It is characterized in that a mechanism is provided.

As described above, by providing a mechanism for sequentially moving the movable partition member 4 and the pressing member 5 with the opening / closing door 3 provided in the paper sheet inlet 2 of the paper sheet feeding unit 1 being opened. The undeliverable paper sheets and the defective or unknown paper sheets can be successively taken out successively, whereby forgetting to take them can be prevented without complicating the retracting mechanism of the movable partition member 4. Further, since it is not necessary to make the paper sheet inlet 2 large, the device can be downsized.

[0020] (2), in the above (1), when returning the returned paper sheet from the sheet delivery chamber 7, the paper
The leaf delivery room 7 and the paper leaf receiving room 6 are integrated into one room,
The movable partition member 4 is arranged so that the paper sheet receiving chamber 6 becomes narrow.
It is desirable to provide a mechanism for moving the paper sheet receiving chamber 6 in the direction in which the paper sheet receiving chamber 6 exists , and in particular, a mechanism for retracting the delivery member 8 provided on the movable partition member 4 to a retracted position where it does not contact the delivery roller 9.

In this way, by retracting the movable partition member 4 so that the paper sheet receiving chamber 6 becomes narrow , the paper sheet delivery chamber 7 can be provided without enlarging the paper sheet inlet 2. Therefore, it is possible to easily remove the defective or unknown paper sheet.

Further, by retracting the delivery member 8 provided on the movable partition member 4 to the retracted position where it does not contact the delivery roller 9, the movable partition member 4 is pressed against the wall side without damaging the delivery roller 9. Therefore, the paper sheet delivery chamber 7 can be maximized.

[0023]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A bill payout unit constituting a bill depositing / dispensing unit according to an embodiment of the present invention will now be described with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3. In addition, the basic configuration of the automatic teller machine (ATM) and the banknote transport route are as follows:
This is the same as the conventional example shown in FIG. 7 and FIG. 8 (see Japanese Patent Application No. 11-278134, if necessary). See FIG. 2. FIG. 2 is a bill payout unit 1 according to the embodiment of the present invention.
It is sectional drawing which shows the schematic structure of 0, the basic structure is the same as that of the prior art, the banknote insertion slot 11 for inserting a banknote by a depositing operation of a customer, the opening / closing door 12 provided in the banknote insertion slot 11, Deposit stage 1 that divides the inside of the bill feeding unit 10 into a bill receiving chamber 13 and a bill delivering chamber 14.
5, withdrawal stage 1 that constitutes the rear end of the banknote delivery chamber 14
6 and a feeding roller 17 are provided. As will be described later, the depositing stage 15 is provided with a feeding plate member 18 that can move up and down.

The depositing stage 15 is controlled by a pair of rotating rollers (not shown) provided on the depositing stage 15 so as to move along the depositing stage rail 19, and when the bill is dispensed, the dispensing plate member 18 deposits money. The first forward path 20 below the U-shaped portion of the stage rail 19
On the other hand, when returning a defective ticket or an unknown ticket, it moves along the second forward path 21 above the U-shaped portion of the depositing stage rail 19. On the other hand, the dispensing stage 16 is controlled so as to move along the dispensing stage rail 22.

3A and 3B. FIG. 3A is a front view showing a schematic structure of the deposit stage 15, and FIG. 3B is a perspective side view of the deposit stage 15. , The deposit stage 15 includes a pair of frames 2
3 and a pair of frames 23 are connected to each other with high rigidity, the bill is pressed together with the payout plate member 18 at the time of paying out the bill, and has a notch portion for receiving the payout roller 17 at the time of returning an unknown or defective bill. It is composed of a plate (not shown).

Further, the feeding plate member 18 is provided with horizontal shafts 24 projecting from the left and right ends of the feeding plate member 18, and can be moved up and down by a pair of upper and lower rotating rollers 25. It is defined by guide holes 26 provided in the side portions of the pair of frames 23.

Therefore, when paying out the bill, the horizontal shaft 24 provided on the payout plate member 18 moves along the first forward path 20 below the U-shaped portion of the pay-in stage rail 19 and accordingly. The payout plate member 18 descends to the lower end of the guide hole 26, and presses the inserted bill against the payout roller 17 together with the intermediate plate.

On the other hand, at the time of withdrawal when returning an unknown ticket or a defective ticket, the horizontal shaft 24 provided on the feeding plate member 18 follows the second forward path 21 above the U-shaped portion of the depositing stage rail 19. The feeding plate member 18 ascends to the upper end of the guide hole 26, and the feeding roller 17 is received by the cutout portion provided in the intermediate plate, so that the feeding roller 17 is moved further to the left side than when the bills are fed. It becomes possible to move, and the banknote delivery room 1 at the time of evacuation
4 can be maximized.

Next, with reference to FIG. 4 to FIG. 6, the returning operation of the undeliverable ticket, the unknown ticket or the defective ticket in the embodiment of the present invention will be described. Refer to FIG. 4. FIG. 4 is a deposit stage 1 when discharging a non-deliverable ticket.
5 is a schematic perspective side view showing the arrangement of the pay-out stage 5 and the pay-out stage 16. When the pay-out failure occurs, the pay-out operation is stopped and the pay-in stage 15 is moved to the vicinity of the rear end of the bill insertion slot 11. Then, by opening the opening / closing door 12 in that state, the non-feedable ticket 27 from the bill insertion slot 11
Then, the customer is prompted by voice or the like to remove the inserted banknotes 28 stacked thereafter.

Referring to FIG. 5, after the removal of the undeliverable bill 27 and the inserted bills 28 stacked thereafter is completed, the depositing stage 15 is retracted to the retracted position while the opening / closing door 12 is open. In addition, the completion of the removal of the undeliverable ticket 27 and the inserted banknotes 28 stacked thereafter is confirmed by the residual sensor and the hand insertion sensor.

In this case, as described above, the horizontal shaft 24 provided on the feeding plate member 18 moves along the second forward path 21 above the U-shaped portion of the depositing stage rail 19 and accordingly. , The feeding plate member 18 is the guide hole 2
6, the feeding roller 17 is received by the cutout portion provided in the intermediate plate described above, so that the collision between the feeding roller 17 and the intermediate plate is avoided, and the feeding roller 17 is not damaged.

Next, similarly, with the opening / closing door 12 still open, the withdrawal stage 16 is moved to the vicinity of the rear end of the bill insertion slot 11 to return defective bills returned to the bill delivery chamber 14. The return bill 29 such as an unknown note appears in the bill insertion slot 11, and the return bill 29 is taken out by the customer from the bill insertion slot 11.

After the completion of taking out the returned banknotes 29 is confirmed by the residual sensor and the hand insertion sensor as described above, the opening / closing door 12 is closed and the withdrawal stage 16 and the withdrawal stage 15 are at the original positions shown in FIG. By returning, the deposit operation becomes possible again by the customer's designation.

However, if re-payment is not carried out and payment is confirmed only by the amount stored in the temporary storage chamber by the previous depositing operation, the banknotes stored in the temporary storage chamber will be transferred through the transfer route. The money is stored in the 10,000-yen bill storage room, the 1,000-yen bill storage room, or the genuine bill collection room, and the deposit process is completed.

As described above, in the embodiment of the present invention, since a series of operations is performed with the opening / closing door 12 of the bill slot 11 being open, the customer is returned to the bill delivery chamber 14 and is defective. Never forget to take back the returned banknote 29 such as a ticket or an unknown ticket.

In addition, when the non-feedable banknotes are removed and the returned banknotes 29 are removed, the banknote insertion slot 11 is provided.
Since the banknote receiving chamber 13 and the banknote delivering chamber 14 are separately configured by fully using the area of the banknote, the banknote insertion slot 11 can be suppressed to the minimum necessary size, thereby
The entire structure of the TM device can be downsized, and even if the size is downsized, the operability at the time of withdrawing banknotes does not deteriorate.

Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described above, the present invention is not limited to the configurations and conditions described in the embodiments, and various modifications can be made. For example,
In the above-described embodiment, the bill payout unit is configured so that the deposit unit that also serves as the refund unit is shared with the dispense unit, but the dispense unit that handles dispensed banknotes in the dispense procedure is separately provided. It may be provided.

The present invention also relates to an automatic teller machine (A
The present invention is not limited to the bill feeding unit provided in TM), but is used as a return mechanism in the feeding portion of paper sheets other than bills, for example, a gift certificate, a book ticket, or a lottery ticket is automatically accepted. At this time, it can be used as a mechanism for returning the undeliverable paper sheets and the unknown / defective paper sheets in the feeding / delivery section of the paper sheets such as the gift certificate, the book ticket, or the lottery ticket.

(Supplementary Note 1) A paper sheet that is judged to be a defective paper sheet or an unknown paper sheet among the paper sheet receiving chamber that receives the input paper sheet and the input paper sheet In a paper sheet handling device provided with a paper sheet feeding unit that partitions the paper delivery chamber with a movable partition member, the movable partition member and a pressing member forming a rear end of the paper sheet delivery chamber A paper sheet handling apparatus, which is provided with a mechanism for sequentially moving the open / close door provided at the paper sheet inlet of the leaf feeding unit in an open state. (Supplementary Note 2) When returning the returned paper sheets from the paper sheet delivery room, the paper sheet delivery room and the paper sheet receiving room are separated from each other.
As a room for the body, so that the paper sheet receiving room becomes narrow ,
The movable partition member in the direction in which the paper sheet receiving chamber is present.
The paper sheet handling apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a mechanism for moving the paper sheet. (Supplementary Note 3) The paper sheet handling apparatus according to Supplementary Note 2, wherein a mechanism for retracting the feeding member provided on the movable partition member to a retracted position that does not contact the feeding roller is provided. (Supplementary Note 4) The paper sheet handling apparatus according to any one of Supplementary Notes 1 to 3, wherein the paper sheets are banknotes. (Supplementary Note 5) The paper sheet handling apparatus according to Supplementary Note 4, wherein the paper sheet delivery chamber provided in the paper sheet delivery unit is a bill return chamber, and the bill return chamber also serves as a dispensing chamber. . (Supplementary note 6) The supplementary note 4 characterized in that the paper sheet delivery chamber provided in the paper sheet delivery unit is a banknote return chamber, and a withdrawal section separate from the paper sheet delivery unit is provided. Paper sheet handling equipment.

[0040]

According to the present invention, a large number of paper sheets are caught in the paper sheet feeding / feeding section with the opening / closing door of the paper sheet feeding port opened, and the non-feedable paper sheets are taken out. Since there is a mechanism that sequentially removes unknown paper sheets or defective paper sheets, forgetting to remove unknown paper sheets or defective paper sheets does not occur, and the paper sheet inlet is The area can be kept to the minimum necessary, which allows ATMs
It is possible to reduce the overall configuration of the device and the like.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram of a principle configuration of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic configuration diagram of a bill payout unit according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a schematic configuration diagram of a deposit stage according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a layout diagram of a deposit stage and a dispense stage when a non-deliverable ticket is taken out according to the embodiment of this invention.

FIG. 5 is a layout view of the deposit stage and the dispense stage after the completion of taking out the non-deliverable ticket according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a layout diagram of a depositing stage and a dispensing stage at the time of taking out an unknown note or a defective note according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a schematic perspective view showing an example of an automatic teller machine.

FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram for explaining a banknote transport path in the automatic teller machine.

FIG. 9 is a schematic configuration diagram of a bill payout unit.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Paper feeding unit 2 Paper input slot 3 open / close door 4 movable partition members 5 Pressing member 6 Paper sheets reception room 7 Paper delivery room 8 Feeding member 9 Feeding roller 10 Banknote payout unit 11 banknote slot 12 doors 13 banknote receiving room 14 banknote delivery room 15 Deposit stage 16 withdrawal stage 17 Feeding roller 18 Feeding plate member 19 Deposit Stage Rail 20 First forward path 21 Second forward path 22 Withdrawal stage rail 23 frame 24 horizontal axis 25 rotating rollers 26 Guide hole 27 non-payable tickets 28 input banknotes 29 returned banknotes 30 Automatic teller machines 31 touch panel 32 cash card slot 33 Passbook insertion slot 34 banknote slot 35 open / close door 36 coin slot 37 Door 41 Banknote payout unit 42 Deposit Stage 43 withdrawal stage 44 Feeding roller 45 Conveyor roller 46 Discrimination Department 47 Temporary storage room 48 genuine ticket collection room 49 10,000 yen bill storage room 50 thousand yen bill storage room 51 Collection Box 52 width sensor 53 Thickness sensor 54 Banknote receiving room 55 banknotes 56 Deposit Stage Rail 57 First Forward Path 58 Movable feeding member 59 Banknote delivery room

─────────────────────────────────────────────────── --Continued from the front page (56) References JP-A-10-334306 (JP, A) JP-A-7-57131 (JP, A) JP-A-9-147193 (JP, A) Actual Kaihei 5- 83874 (JP, U) (58) Fields investigated (Int.Cl. ⁷ , DB name) G07D 1 / 00,3 / 00,9 / 00 G07D 9 / 04,11 / 00,13 / 00

Claims (3)

(57) [Claims] 1. A paper sheet delivery chamber for receiving a fed paper sheet, and a paper sheet delivery for delivering a paper sheet determined to be a defective paper sheet or an unknown paper sheet among the loaded paper sheets. In a paper sheet handling device including a paper sheet feeding unit that partitions the chamber with a movable partition member, the movable partition member and a pressing member that constitutes the rear end of the paper sheet delivery chamber are A paper sheet handling apparatus, which is provided with a mechanism for sequentially moving the open / close door provided at the paper sheet inlet of the feeding unit in an open state. 2. When returning the returned paper sheets from the paper sheet delivery room, the paper sheet delivery room and the paper sheet receiving room are separated from each other.
A room together, said the sheet receiving chamber narrows so, the movable partition member, the paper sheet receiving chamber there
2. The paper sheet handling apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a mechanism for moving the paper sheet in the direction. 3. The paper sheet handling apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a mechanism for retracting the feeding member provided on the movable partition member to a retracted position where it does not contact the feeding roller.