JP5087957B2 - Automatic transaction equipment - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an automatic transaction apparatus which is installed in a store of a financial institution such as a bank and performs transactions such as withdrawal of cash and deposit.

In the case of a conventional automatic transaction apparatus, when a failure occurs in the apparatus, the type of the failure is determined, and the cause of the failure that can be removed is automatically removed by the device and becomes a cause of failure that cannot be removed. If there is a function, the function is excluded from the function of the apparatus and the operation is restarted (see, for example, Patent Document 1).
JP-A-5-73602 (paragraphs “0013” to “0018”, FIGS. 4, 5, and 6)

  However, in the above-described conventional technology, there is a problem particularly when a bill inserted into the customer service port of the bill depositing / dispensing machine in a cash deposit transaction is transported by the transport path and stored in the denomination storage. In this case, since there is a possibility that banknotes remain in the transport path even after the operation to remove the obstacle, even if no banknotes remain in the transport path, There is a problem that the operation of the entire apparatus is stopped by making a judgment.

  An object of the present invention is to solve such a problem.

For this reason, the present invention provides a customer service unit that separates and feeds banknotes inserted by a customer one by one, a temporary storage unit that temporarily holds banknotes fed from the customer service unit, and banknotes that are fed from the temporary storage unit. Provided with a plurality of banknote storage sections to be stored, a deposit storage transport path that connects the temporary storage section and the storage section entrance / exit of the plurality of banknote storage sections, and the banknotes inserted into the customer service section to the banknote storage section In an automatic transaction apparatus having a banknote depositing / withdrawing machine for performing deposit processing for storing, a banking abnormality detecting means for detecting a banking abnormality of the banknotes conveyed in the depositing / accommodating conveyance path and the storing portion entrance / exit, and a banknote by the conveyance abnormality detecting means conveying abnormality when detecting of the deposit storage conveyance path, the direction for accommodating the bills to the bill accommodating unit is idling in the direction of the escrow unit in the reverse direction, to accumulate the bills remaining in the escrow unit residual The bill removal means and all the banknotes accumulated in the temporary holding section by the residual banknote removal means are fed out and conveyed to the banknote storage section arranged at the end of the deposit storage transport path, and the banknotes are transferred to the deposit storage transport path. It has a bill depositing / dispensing machine provided with a cleaning means for confirming that it does not remain.

A plurality of banknote storage units for storing banknotes; a customer service unit for stacking banknotes to be delivered to a customer; a withdrawal transfer path that connects the storage unit entrance and the customer service unit of the banknote storage unit; A discriminating unit for discriminating banknotes on a gold conveyance path, a withdrawal unit for storing rejects that are identified as unsuitable for withdrawal by the discrimination unit, and a branching part of a withdrawal conveyance path in the vicinity of the outlet of the discrimination unit And a withdrawal / rejection conveyance path that connects the withdrawal / rejection storage unit, and a withdrawal unit that transports and collects banknotes fed out of the banknote storage unit and identified as suitable for withdrawal by the discrimination unit to the customer service unit In an automatic transaction apparatus having a bill depositing / withdrawing machine that performs processing, a conveyance abnormality detecting means for detecting a conveyance abnormality of a bill conveyed in the withdrawal conveyance path, a withdrawal reject conveyance path, and a storage portion entrance and exit, and the conveyance abnormality detection Detects banknote conveyance abnormality by means The withdrawal conveyance path is idled in the direction of the customer service section, and the withdrawal of the withdrawal reject conveyance path is made in the direction of the withdrawal rejection storage section to accumulate the remaining banknotes in the reception section or the withdrawal rejection storage section. The remaining banknote removing means and all the banknotes accumulated in the customer service part by the residual banknote removing means are fed out, and the banknotes fed out from the customer service part are temporarily transported to the temporary holding part for temporarily storing them, and the withdrawal transport the dispensing direction the road is driven in the direction of the banknote storing portion of the reverse are integrated conveys the banknotes paid out from the escrow unit said to bill storage section, then, one sheet fed out from the bill storage unit the paper money is integrated with the transport to the customer unit, the single banknote feeding from該接customer unit conveyed by integrating into the escrow unit, further, a direction opposite to the dispensing direction the dispensing conveying passage Withdrawal withdrawal storage Driven in the direction from the banknote storage unit together with bills conveyed the dispensing transport path by said single bill feeding from the escrow unit to the dispensing reject storage unit to ensure that no residual It has a banknote depositing / withdrawing machine provided with cleaning means for conveying the fed banknotes to the withdrawal / rejection storage unit and confirming that no banknotes remain in the withdrawal / rejection transport path.

  According to the present invention as described above, after a trouble such as clogging of banknotes occurs in the vicinity of the entrance / exit of the denomination storage in the deposit process and the withdrawal process, the banknotes are transferred to the transport path by performing the banknote removal process and the cleaning process. Banknote storage that has a storage unit entrance and exit where banknotes remain without stopping the operation of the entire device when it can be confirmed that no banknotes remain in the transport path. The effect that only the transaction which uses a part can be restricted is acquired.

  Embodiments of an automatic transaction apparatus according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an automatic transaction apparatus according to an embodiment.
In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes an automatic transaction apparatus, which is installed in a store of a financial institution such as a bank or a store such as a convenience store. The automatic transaction apparatus 1 is capable of performing transactions such as cash withdrawal and cash deposit by a customer operation.
Reference numeral 11 denotes a customer operation display unit, which includes an operation unit such as a touch panel and a display unit such as a liquid crystal display. The customer operation display unit 11 is a touch panel arranged on a display unit such as a CRT display or a liquid crystal display to detect an input operation performed by the customer. The screen for guiding the input operation and the like, and the input information and the like are displayed.

A card reader unit 12 includes a card reading / writing mechanism and a card transport mechanism. The card reader unit 12 reads account information such as an account number from the magnetic stripe or IC chip of the card inserted by the customer into the card insertion / return port. The card that has read the account information such as the account number is discharged from the card insertion return slot and returned to the customer.
Reference numeral 13 denotes a banknote depositing / withdrawing machine that performs banknote depositing / withdrawing processing associated with cash withdrawal transactions and cash deposit transactions. Here, the banknote deposit process is to count the banknotes thrown into the customer service by the customer and store them in the safe. The banknote withdrawal process is a process of paying out a banknote corresponding to the amount designated by the customer's operation from the safe, transporting it to the customer service port, and paying it to the customer. In addition, the detail of a structure of a banknote depositing / withdrawing machine is mentioned later.

Reference numeral 14 denotes a coin deposit / withdrawal machine, which performs a coin deposit / withdrawal process associated with a cash withdrawal transaction or a cash deposit / deposit transaction. Here, the coin deposit process is to count the coins that have been thrown into the customer service by the customer and store them in the safe. Also, the coin withdrawal process is to pay out a coin corresponding to the amount designated by the customer's operation from the safe, transport it to the customer service port, and pay it to the customer.
Reference numeral 15 denotes a storage unit which is composed of a semiconductor memory, a magnetic disk, or the like, stores information, and can read the stored information. The storage unit 15 stores a control program (software) for controlling the overall operation of the automatic transaction apparatus 1, screen data displayed on the customer operation display unit 11, information necessary for transactions performed by the customer, and the like.

  Reference numeral 16 denotes a main control unit, which is composed of arithmetic and control means such as a CPU (Central Processing Unit). The main control unit 16 includes a customer operation display unit 11, a card reader unit 12, a banknote depositing / dispensing machine 13, a coin depositing / dispensing machine 14, a storage unit 15, and a communication unit (not shown) that performs communication control via the communication line 2. The overall operation of the automatic transaction apparatus 1 is controlled based on a control program (software) stored in the storage unit 15.

Next, a block diagram showing a configuration of a control system of the banknote depositing / dispensing machine in the embodiment of FIG. 2 and a block diagram showing a configuration of a mechanism part of the banknote depositing / dispensing machine in the embodiment of FIG. This will be explained based on.
In FIG. 3, reference numeral 21 denotes a customer service section, which has a banknote depositing chamber 21a and a banknote stacking chamber 21b.

  Here, the banknote depositing chamber 21a is a part that accepts the insertion of banknotes (cash) to be deposited by the customer, and has a separation mechanism that separates and feeds the inserted banknotes one by one. The banknote collection chamber 21b is a banknote that is once collected in a rejected banknote that has been identified as non-payable by a discrimination section that will be described later, or a temporary storage section that will be described later, among banknotes to be withdrawn to a customer or banknotes that the customer has attempted to deposit. It is a site | part which has an accumulation | stacking mechanism which accumulate | stores the banknotes returned to a.

The banknote depositing chamber 21a and the banknote stacking chamber 21b are partitioned by a collapsible partition plate, and the banknotes accumulated in the banknote stacking chamber 21b can be moved to the banknote depositing chamber 21a by tilting the partition plate. It can be done.
Reference numeral 22 denotes a discrimination unit which performs discrimination of authenticity, correctness, denomination, denomination, and the like of conveyed banknotes, detection of conveyance abnormality such as chaining and skewing, and counting.

Reference numeral 23 denotes a temporary holding unit, which temporarily holds banknotes identified as depositable by the discrimination unit 22, and stacks the banknotes identified as depositable and separates the stacked banknotes one by one. Thus, the separation and accumulation mechanism is provided.
24a to 24d are banknote storage units (banknote storages) that store banknotes by denomination, and are arranged side by side on the lower side of the fuselage, and 24e is a banknote storage unit that stores banknotes and the like during deposit transactions. In the (banknote storage), the banknote storage section 24e has a shorter vertical length than the banknote storage sections 24a to 24d.

  25 is a forgotten banknote storage unit (forgotten banknote storage) that takes in and stores banknotes that have been forgotten to be taken by the customer and left in the customer service unit 21, and 26 is discriminated by the discrimination unit 22 if it is not suitable for withdrawal at the time of withdrawal. In the reject storage part (reject banknote storage) for storing the rejected banknotes, the forgotten banknote storage part 25 and the reject storage part 26 are arranged on the lower side of the banknote storage part 24e.

27 is a banknote transport path, and this transport path 27 is composed of a plurality of transport paths (27a to 27h). The customer service section 21, the discrimination section 22, the temporary storage section 23, the banknote storage sections 24a to 24e, and the forgotten banknotes. It connects between each part of the accommodating part 25 and the rejection accommodating part 26, and it is provided so that a banknote may be clamped and conveyed.
The conveyance path 27a is provided so as to connect the banknote depositing chamber 21a of the customer service section 21 and the discrimination section 22, and the conveyance path 27b is formed between the banknote accumulation chamber 21b of the customer service section 21 and a branch portion provided in the middle of the conveyance path 27a. Are provided to connect.

The conveyance path 27c is provided so as to connect the discrimination section 22 and the temporary holding section 23, and the conveyance path 27d is provided so as to connect the temporary holding section 23 and a branch section provided in the middle of the conveyance path 27b. Yes.
The transport path 27e is provided so as to connect each of the banknote storage units 24a to 24e, and the transport path 27f is provided between the branch section provided in the middle of the transport path 27c, the banknote storage section 24d of the transport path 27e, and the banknote storage section 24e. It connects so that the branch part provided in the middle may be connected.

The transport path 27g is provided so as to connect the branch section provided between the branch path of the transport path 27e with the transport path 27f and the banknote storage section 24e, and the forgotten banknote storage section 25 and the reject storage section 26. Yes.
The conveyance path 27h is provided so as to connect a branch section provided between the banknote storage section 24a and the banknote storage section 24b and a branch section between the banknote depositing chamber 21a of the customer service section 21 and the transport path 27b of the transport path 27a. ing.

Reference numeral 28 denotes a storage unit entrance, which is an entrance that connects the conveyance path 27 to each of the banknote storage units 24a to 24e, the forgotten banknote storage unit 25, and the reject storage unit 26.
The storage section entrances 28a to 28d are provided so as to connect the transport path 27e and the banknote storage sections 24a to 24d, and are transported from the banknotes and banknote storage sections 24a to 24d that are stacked from the transport path 27e to the banknote storage sections 24a to 24d. The bills fed to the path 27e can be carried in and out.

The storage portion entrance / exit 28e is provided so as to connect the transport path 27e and the banknote storage portion 24e so that banknotes stored in the banknote storage portion 24e can be carried in from the transport path 27e.
The storage section entrance 28f is provided so as to connect the transport path 27g and the forgotten banknote storage section 25 so that banknotes to be stored in the forgotten banknote storage section 25 can be carried in from the transport path 27g. .

The storage portion entrance / exit 28g is provided so as to connect the transport path 27g and the reject storage portion 26 so that banknotes to be stored in the reject storage portion 26 can be carried in from the transport path 27g.
Reference numeral 29 denotes a bill detection sensor, which is an optical sensor or the like in which a light emitting portion and a light receiving portion are arranged to face each other with a bill passage in the transport path 27 or the storage portion entrance 28 interposed therebetween. This banknote detection sensor 29 is provided in each section in order to detect the banknotes fed out from the above-mentioned sections and the passage of banknotes transported to the respective sections and to monitor the transport state of the banknotes (detect a banknote transport abnormality). .

The banknote detection sensor 29a is arrange | positioned at the conveyance path 22a near the exit of the banknote depositing chamber 21a of the customer service part 21, and monitors the conveyance state of the banknote pay | paid out from the banknote depositing chamber 21a.
The banknote detection sensor 29b is disposed in the vicinity of the entrance / exit of the discrimination section 22 of the transport path 27a, and the banknote detection sensor 29c is disposed in the vicinity of the entrance / exit of the discrimination section 22 of the transport path 27c and is carried into the discrimination section 22. The conveyance state of a banknote or the banknote carried out from the discrimination part 22 is monitored.

The banknote detection sensor 29d is disposed in the vicinity of the entrance / exit of the temporary storage unit 23 in the transport path 27c, and monitors the transport state of banknotes fed out from the temporary storage unit 23 and banknotes carried in.
The banknote detection sensor 29e is arrange | positioned at the conveyance path 27b near the entrance of the banknote accumulation chamber 21b of the customer service part 21, and monitors the conveyance state of the banknote carried in to the banknote accumulation chamber 21b.
The banknote detection sensors 29f-29i are arrange | positioned at the accommodating part entrance / exit 28a-28d which is the entrance / exit of the banknote of each banknote accommodating part 24a-24d, respectively, and the conveyance of the banknote pay | feeded out from the banknote accommodating part 24a-24d, respectively, or the banknote to be carried in are carried out, respectively. Monitor status.

The banknote detection sensor 29j is arrange | positioned at the accommodating part entrance / exit 28e which is an inlet_port | entrance of the banknote accommodating part 24e, and monitors the conveyance state of the banknote carried in to the banknote accommodating part 24e.
The banknote detection sensor 29k is arranged at the storage section entrance / exit 28f that is the entrance of the forgotten banknote storage section 25, and monitors the conveyance state of the banknotes that are carried into the forgotten banknote storage section 25.
The banknote detection sensor 29l is disposed at a storage section entrance / exit 28g, which is the entrance of the reject storage section 26, and monitors the conveyance state of banknotes carried into the reject storage section 26.

Although not shown, a switching blade for switching the banknote transport direction is provided at a branching portion of the transport path 27 or the like.
In FIG. 2, reference numeral 30 denotes a storage unit such as a semiconductor memory, and reference numeral 31 denotes a control unit composed of arithmetic and control means such as a CPU. The control unit 31 is based on a control program stored in the storage unit 30. It has a function of controlling the overall operation of the bill depositing / dispensing machine 13.

Note that the storage unit 30 stores in advance a banknote passage monitoring time and the like for detecting a conveyance abnormality such as a banknote jam for each banknote detection sensor 28.
The operation of the above configuration will be described.
In the present embodiment, an operation in which a banknote may remain in the storage portion entrances 28a to 28d after a conveyance abnormality such as a banknote jam occurs in a deposit transaction or a withdrawal transaction will be described.

First, the deposit transaction will be described.
In the present embodiment, for the sake of simplicity, it is assumed that only a 10,000 yen voucher is inserted into the depositing chamber 21a of the customer service section 21, and the 10,000 yen vouchers and the banknote storage sections 24c, 24d are inserted into the banknote storage sections 24a, 24b. One thousand yen tickets shall be stored.
When a customer approach is detected by a proximity sensor of the automatic transaction apparatus 1 (not shown), the customer operation display unit 11 of the automatic transaction apparatus 1 displays a transaction selection screen. This transaction selection screen is composed of words such as “Come here. Please select a transaction” and transaction selection buttons such as “withdrawal” and “deposit”.

When the transaction selection screen is displayed on the customer operation display unit 11, the customer presses “deposit” which is a transaction selection button corresponding to the desired transaction.
When the customer operation display unit 11 detects that the “deposit” transaction selection button is pressed, the customer operation display unit 11 displays a card insertion guidance screen that prompts the customer to insert a card according to an instruction from the main control unit 16. The customer inserts his / her card from the card insertion / return slot according to the card insertion guidance screen.

The card reader unit 12 reads account information such as an account number from the magnetic stripe or IC chip of the inserted card. When the card is inserted, the banknote depositing / dispensing machine 13 starts a banknote depositing process according to an instruction from the main control unit 16.
The control unit 31 of the banknote depositing / dispensing machine 13 opens a shutter (not shown) of the customer service unit 21, and the customer inserts banknotes into the banknote depositing chamber 21 a of the customer service unit 21.

The control part 31 which detected insertion of the banknote closes the shutter of the customer service part 21, and separates and feeds the inserted banknote one by one by the separation mechanism.
The fed banknotes are transported to the discrimination unit 22 by the transport path 27a as shown by the thick solid line in FIG. 4A, and the banknotes discriminated from the genuine bills by the discrimination section 22 are transported to the temporary storage unit 23 by the transport path 27c. And accumulated. On the other hand, the banknotes identified as not authentic by the discrimination section 22 are collected in the banknote accumulation chamber 21b of the customer service section 21 by the transport path 27d and the transport path 27b in order to return to the customer.

When all the banknotes inserted into the banknote depositing chamber 21a are fed out and transported to the temporary storage unit 23, the main controller 16 is notified of the counting result of the banknotes discriminated from the genuine bills by the discrimination unit 22.
Upon receipt of the count result notification, the customer operation display unit 11 displays the deposit amount as the count result in response to an instruction from the main control unit 16 and returns the “confirm” button for instructing confirmation of the deposit amount or the inserted banknote. A payment amount confirmation screen composed of a “return” button and the like is displayed.

In this embodiment, it is assumed that the “confirm” button is pressed.
As indicated by the thick solid line in FIG. 4B, the control unit 31 of the banknote depositing / dispensing machine 13 pays out the banknotes accumulated in the temporary storage unit 23 according to an instruction from the main control unit 16 that detects the pressing of the “confirm” button. The transport paths 27c, 27a, and 27e are transported to the banknote storage section 24a via the storage section entrance 28a, and are collected and stored.

Here, the conveyance paths 27c, 27a, and 27e connecting the temporary storage section 23 and the storage section entrance / exit 28 of the banknote storage section 24 are referred to as deposit storage conveyance paths.
In the above operation, the control unit 31 detects the clogging of bills based on the bill passage monitoring time stored in the bill detection sensor 29 and the storage unit 30.
When the banknotes are detected, the control unit 31 stops the transport paths 27c, 27a, and 27e, and then transports the remaining banknotes to the temporary storage unit 23 as shown by the thick solid lines in FIG. A banknote removal process is performed in which the paths 27c, 27a, and 27e are idled in the direction of the temporary storage unit 23 until a predetermined time elapses.

Here, idling refers to transporting banknotes remaining in the transport path 27 to a stacking destination without feeding banknotes (the same applies hereinafter).
In this way, the banknotes remaining in the transport paths 27c, 27a, 27e (payment storage transport path) are removed.
When the banknote removal process is performed, the control unit 31 pays out all the banknotes accumulated in the temporary storage unit 23 as shown in FIG. 6, and transports them to the banknote storage unit 24e through the transport paths 27c, 27a, and 27e, stores them, and stores them. A cleaning process is performed.

In this cleaning process, all the banknotes accumulated in the temporary storage unit 23 are transported to the banknote storage unit 24e and accumulated, so that the control unit 31 and the temporary storage unit 23 are not fed out from the banknote storage unit 24. It can be determined that no banknotes remain in the transport paths 27c, 27a, 27e (payment storage transport paths) connecting the banknote storage unit 24e.
Accordingly, the portion where the banknote may remain is the storage section entrance 28a, and the banknote remains in the transport paths 27c, 27a, 27e (payment storage transport path) connecting the temporary storage section 23 and the banknote storage section 24e. You can confirm that you have not.

  In addition, when the conveyance abnormality of a banknote is detected in the cleaning process, that is, when the conveyance abnormality such as the clogging of the banknote is detected in the operation of conveying and stacking the banknote accumulated in the temporary storage unit 23 to the banknote storage unit 24e. The control unit 31 determines that there is a possibility that banknotes remain in the transport paths 27c, 27a, and 27e (payment storage transport paths) connecting the temporary storage unit 23 and the banknote storage unit 24e.

Next, the withdrawal transaction will be described.
In the present embodiment, for the sake of simplicity, it is assumed that only a 10,000 yen voucher is paid, and that 10,000 yen voucher is paid out from the banknote storage unit 24a. Also, it is assumed that 10,000 yen tickets are stored in the banknote storage units 24a and 24b, and thousand yen tickets are stored in the banknote storage units 24c and 24d.
When a customer approach is detected by a proximity sensor of the automatic transaction apparatus 1 (not shown), the customer operation display unit 11 of the automatic transaction apparatus 1 displays a transaction selection screen. This transaction selection screen is composed of words such as “Come here. Please select a transaction” and transaction selection buttons such as “withdrawal” and “deposit”.

When the transaction selection screen is displayed on the customer operation display unit 11, the customer presses “Drawer” which is a transaction selection button corresponding to the desired transaction.
When the customer operation display unit 11 detects that the “drawer” transaction selection button has been pressed, the customer operation display unit 11 displays a card insertion guidance screen prompting the customer to insert a card in accordance with an instruction from the main control unit 16. The customer inserts his / her card from the card insertion / return slot according to the card insertion guidance screen.

The card reader unit 12 reads account information such as an account number from the magnetic stripe or IC chip of the inserted card, and the customer operation display unit 11 displays a code number input screen for accepting the input of the code number and the code. Accept number input.
The main control unit 16 confirms the identity based on the entered password, and if the customer is confirmed to be the identity, the customer operation display unit 11 displays a withdrawal amount input screen for entering the withdrawal amount and displays the withdrawal amount. Accepts money amount input.

When the input of the withdrawal amount is accepted, the bill depositing / dispensing machine 13 starts a bill withdrawal process according to an instruction from the main control unit 16.
As shown by the thick solid line in FIG. 7, the control unit 31 of the banknote depositing / dispensing machine 13 pays out banknotes from the banknote storage unit 24a and transports them to the discrimination unit 22 via the storage unit entrance / exit 28a through the transport paths 27e, 27h, 27a. The banknotes discriminated from the correct bills by the discrimination unit 22 are transported to the banknote stacking chamber 21b by the transport paths 27c, 27d, and 27b and accumulated. On the other hand, the banknotes discriminated from the withdrawal reject banknotes that are not suitable for withdrawals such as non-performing bills in the discrimination unit 22 are conveyed to the reject storage unit 26 by the transport paths 27c, 27f, 27e, and 27g and accumulated.

Here, the conveyance paths 27e, 27h, 27a, 27c, 27d, and 27b connecting the banknote storage unit 24 and the banknote stacking chamber 21b are arranged in the middle of the withdrawal conveyance path and the conveyance path 27c, and in the vicinity of the exit of the discrimination unit 22 The conveyance paths 27f, 27e, and 27g that connect the withdrawal / rejection storage unit 26 to the branching portion of the first and second branches are referred to as withdrawal / rejection conveyance paths.
In the above operation, the control unit 31 detects the clogging of bills based on the bill passage monitoring time stored in the bill detection sensor 29 and the storage unit 30.

  When detecting the clogging of banknotes, the controller 31 stops the conveyance paths 27e, 27h, 27a, 27c, 27d, 27b, 27f, and 27g, and then the remaining banknotes as shown by the thick solid line in FIG. The banknote removal process is performed in which the transport paths 27e, 27h, 27a, 27c and the transport paths 27d, 27b are idled in the direction of the banknote stacking chamber 21b until a predetermined time elapses.

At the same time, as shown by the thick solid line in FIG. 9, a predetermined time has passed in the direction of the reject storage unit 26 along the transport paths 27 f, 27 e, 27 g so that the remaining banknotes are transported to the reject storage unit 26 and accumulated. The banknote removal process is carried out until it is idle.
In this way, the banknotes remaining on the transport paths 27e, 27h, 27a, 27c, 27d, 27b (withdrawal transport path) and the transport paths 27f, 27e, 27g (withdrawal reject transport path) are removed.

When the banknote removal process is performed, the control unit 31 moves all the banknotes stacked in the banknote stacking chamber 21b to the depositing chamber 21a and feeds them to the temporary storage unit 23 through the transport paths 27a and 27c as shown in FIG. Cleaning process is performed.
In this cleaning process, all the banknotes accumulated in the banknote stacking chamber 21b are transported to the temporary storage unit 23 and accumulated, whereby the control unit 31 enters the banknotes in the transport paths 27a and 27c connecting the depositing chamber 21a and the temporary storage unit 23. Is determined not to remain.

  Next, the control unit 31 determines whether or not banknotes remain in the storage unit entrance / exit 28a by the banknote detection sensor 29f. If no banknote remains as a result of the determination, as shown in FIG. 11, all the banknotes accumulated in the temporary storage unit 23 are fed out, and the banknotes are stored via the storage sections 28a by the transport paths 27c, 27h, 27e. When the banknotes are transported to the unit 24a and accumulated and stored, while banknotes remain, all the banknotes accumulated in the temporary storage unit 23 are fed out and stored by the transport paths 27c, 27h, and 27e as shown in FIG. A cleaning process is performed in which the bills are collected, stored, and stored in the banknote storage unit 24b via the part entrance / exit 28b.

At this time, banknotes discriminated as genuine bills suitable for withdrawal by the discrimination unit 22 are conveyed to the banknote storage unit 24a or 24b, and banknotes identified as reject banknotes not suitable for withdrawal are conveyed to the reject storage unit 26. It shall be accumulated.
In the cleaning process, the control unit 31 conveys and accumulates all the banknotes accumulated in the temporary storage unit 23 to the banknote storage unit 24a or 24b, thereby connecting the temporary storage unit 23 and the banknote storage unit 24a or 24b. It is determined that no banknote remains on 27c, 27h, and 27e.

  Next, when the banknotes are conveyed to the banknote storage unit 24a or the banknote storage unit 24b and accumulated, the control unit 31 accumulates the banknote storage unit 24a or the banknote storage unit 24b (the banknote remains in the storage unit entrance / exit 28a as shown in FIG. 12). If not, one bill is fed out from the bill storage portion 24a, and if it remains, the bill collection chamber of the customer service portion 21 is conveyed by the transport paths 27e, 27h, 27a, 27c, 27d, and 27b. A cleaning process for transporting to 21b and accumulating is performed.

  In this cleaning process, the banknotes stacked in the banknote storage unit 24a or 24b are conveyed to the banknote stacking chamber 21b and stacked so that the control unit 31 does not feed out a new banknote from the banknote storage unit 24 or It can be determined that no banknotes remain in the transport paths 27e, 27h, 27a, 27c, 27d, and 27b (withdrawal transport paths) connecting 24b and the banknote stacking chamber 21b.

Next, when the banknotes are conveyed and accumulated in the banknote stacking chamber 21b of the customer service section 21, the control unit 31 moves the banknotes stacked in the banknote stacking chamber 21b to the depositing chamber 21a as shown in FIG. 27a and 27c carry out a cleaning process for transporting to the temporary storage unit 23 and accumulating.
In this cleaning process, the control unit 31 determines that no banknotes remain in the transport paths 27a and 27c by transporting and stacking the banknotes stacked in the banknote stacking chamber 21b to the temporary storage unit 23.

Next, when the banknotes are conveyed to the temporary storage unit 23 and accumulated, the control unit 31 feeds out one banknote from the accumulated temporary storage unit 23 as shown in FIG. 14, and is rejected by the conveyance paths 27c, 27h, 27e, and 27g. A cleaning process is performed for transporting to the storage unit 26 and accumulating.
In this cleaning process, the control unit 31 conveys the banknotes accumulated in the temporary storage unit 23 to the reject storage unit 26 and accumulates them, so that the control unit 31 conveys the transport paths 27c, 27h, 27e, which connect the temporary storage unit 23 and the reject storage unit 26. It is determined that no bill remains on 27g.

  Next, as shown in FIG. 15, the control unit 31 has a banknote storage unit 24a or a banknote storage unit 24b (the banknote storage unit 24a when no banknotes remain in the storage unit entrance 28a, and the banknote storage unit when any banknotes remain. 24b), one banknote is fed out, and a cleaning process is performed in which the banknotes are transported to the reject storage unit 26 through the transport paths 27e, 27h, 27a, 27c, 27f, 27e, and 27g and accumulated.

  In this cleaning process, the control unit 31 transfers the banknotes accumulated in the banknote storage unit 24a or the banknote storage unit 24b to the reject storage unit 26 and accumulates them, so that the control unit 31 has the banknote storage unit 24a or the banknote storage unit 24b and the reject storage unit 26. It is determined that no banknotes remain in the transport paths 27e, 27h, 27a, 27c, 27f, 27e, 27g, that is, the withdrawal reject transport path.

Therefore, the portion where the banknote may remain is the storage portion entrance 28a, and it can be confirmed that no banknote remains in the transport path 27.
In addition, when conveyance abnormality, such as a banknote jam, is detected in said cleaning process, the control part 31 determines with the possibility that the banknote may remain in the conveyance path 27. FIG.
As described above, it is possible to confirm that no banknote remains in the transport path 27 by performing a banknote removal process and a cleaning process after a conveyance abnormality such as a blockage of banknotes is detected in the deposit process or the withdrawal process. When it is possible to confirm that no banknotes remain in the transport path 27, transactions using the banknote storage unit 24 having the storage unit entrance / exit 28 where banknotes remain, for example, banknotes remain in the storage unit entrance / exit 28a. If it is, it is possible to limit only transactions for collecting banknotes in the banknote storage unit 24a and delivering banknotes from the banknote storage unit 24a.

In addition, although the present Example demonstrated by the deposit / withdrawal process using the banknote accommodating part 24a, it is a conveyance path by similarly performing a banknote removal process and a cleaning process also with the deposit / withdrawal process using the banknote accommodating part 24b, 24c, 24d. 27, it can be confirmed that no banknote remains.
As described above, in this embodiment, banknotes remain in the conveyance path 27 by performing the banknote removal process and the cleaning process after a conveyance abnormality such as a blockage of banknotes is detected in the deposit process and the withdrawal process. If it can be confirmed that there is no banknote remaining in the transport path 27, only transactions using the banknote storage unit 24 having the storage unit entrance 28 where the banknotes remain The effect that it can restrict | limit can be acquired.

  The present invention can also be applied to a coin depositing and dispensing machine.

The block diagram which shows the structure of the automatic transaction apparatus in an Example. The block diagram which shows the structure of the control system of the banknote depositing / withdrawing machine in an Example. The block diagram which shows the structure of the mechanism part of the banknote depositing / withdrawing machine in an Example. Explanatory drawing which shows the payment operation | movement in an Example. Explanatory drawing which shows idling operation in an Example Explanatory drawing which shows the cleaning operation | movement in an Example. Explanatory drawing which shows the payment operation | movement in an Example. Explanatory drawing which shows idling operation in an Example Explanatory drawing which shows idling operation in an Example Explanatory drawing which shows the cleaning operation | movement in an Example. Explanatory drawing which shows the cleaning operation | movement in an Example. Explanatory drawing which shows the cleaning operation | movement in an Example. Explanatory drawing which shows the cleaning operation | movement in an Example. Explanatory drawing which shows the cleaning operation | movement in an Example. Explanatory drawing which shows the cleaning operation | movement in an Example.

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DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Automatic transaction apparatus 2 Communication line 11 Customer operation display part 12 Card reader part 13 Banknote depositing / withdrawing machine 14 Coin depositing / withdrawing machine 15 Memory | storage part 16 Main control part 21 Customer service part 22 Discrimination part 23 Temporary reservation part 24a-24e Banknote storage part 25 Forgotten banknote storage unit 26 Rejected banknote storage unit 27 Transport path 28a to 28g Storage unit entrance / exit 29a to 29l Banknote detection sensor 30 Storage unit 31 Control unit

Claims (3)

A customer service section that separates and feeds out banknotes inserted by a customer one by one, a temporary storage section that temporarily holds banknotes fed out from the customer service section, and a plurality of banknote storage that stores banknotes fed out from the temporary storage section A deposit storage transport path that connects the storage section and the temporary storage section and the storage section entrance / exit of the plurality of banknote storage sections, and performs a deposit process for storing the banknotes inserted into the customer service section into the banknote storage section. In an automatic transaction apparatus having a bill depositing and dispensing machine,
A conveyance abnormality detection means for detecting a conveyance abnormality of the banknotes conveyed at the deposit storage conveyance path and the storage unit entrance;
When the conveyance abnormality detection means detects the conveyance abnormality of the banknote, the deposit storage conveyance path is idled in the direction of the temporary holding section opposite to the direction in which the banknote is stored in the banknote storage section, and the remaining banknote is removed. A residual banknote removing means to be accumulated in the temporary holding unit;
All the banknotes accumulated in the temporary storage unit by the residual banknote removal means are fed out and transported to the banknote storage unit disposed at the end of the deposit storage transport path, and no banknotes remain in the deposit storage transport path An automatic transaction apparatus comprising a bill depositing / dispensing machine provided with a cleaning means for confirming the payment. A plurality of banknote storage units for storing banknotes, a customer service unit for stacking banknotes to be delivered to a customer, a withdrawal conveyance path that connects the storage unit entrance and the customer service unit of the banknote storage unit, and the withdrawal transport A discrimination unit for discriminating banknotes on the road, a withdrawal / rejection storage unit for storing banknotes identified as not suitable for withdrawal by the discrimination unit, a branching unit and a withdrawal part of the withdrawal conveyance path near the exit of the discrimination unit A withdrawal process for delivering and collecting the banknotes that are fed out from the banknote storage unit and identified as suitable for withdrawal by the discrimination unit to the customer service unit. In an automatic transaction apparatus having a banknote depositing and dispensing machine to perform,
A conveyance abnormality detection means for detecting a conveyance abnormality of the banknotes conveyed at the withdrawal conveyance path, the withdrawal rejection conveyance path and the storage portion entrance;
When the conveyance abnormality detecting means detects an abnormality in the conveyance of banknotes, the remaining banknotes are left by causing the withdrawal conveyance path to idle in the direction of the customer service section and idle in the direction of the withdrawal rejection conveyance section. Residual banknote removing means for collecting the money in the customer service section or the withdrawal reject storage section,
All the banknotes accumulated in the customer service part by the residual banknote removing means are fed out, and the banknotes fed out from the customer service part are temporarily transported to a temporary storage part for temporarily storing them, and the withdrawal transport path is defined as a withdrawal direction. Is driven in the direction of the banknote storage part in the reverse direction, and the banknotes fed out from the temporary storage part are conveyed and accumulated in the banknote storage part , and then one banknote fed out from the banknote storage part is sent to the customer service part conveyed by integrating, the one bill feeding from該接customer unit is integrated with the transport to the escrow unit, further wherein the dispensing transport path the withdrawal direction opposite the direction of withdrawal reject storage unit driven in the direction from the banknote storage unit together with bills conveyed the dispensing transport path by said single bill feeding from the escrow unit to the dispensing reject storage unit to ensure that no residual Reject banknotes withdrawn Automatic transaction apparatus characterized by having a bill depositing and dispensing machine provided with a cleaning means for confirming that the bill into the dispensing reject conveyance passage to convey the housed portion does not remain. In the automatic transaction apparatus of Claim 2,
When the conveyance abnormality detecting unit detects a conveyance abnormality of the banknote at the entrance / exit of the storage unit, the cleaning unit accumulates the banknotes accumulated in the customer service unit by the residual banknote removal unit into a banknote storage unit other than the entrance / exit of the storage unit. An automatic transaction apparatus characterized by the above.