JP7244460B2 - Bill management device and method - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a banknote management apparatus and method.

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for managing banknotes in automatic machines under the control of a head office of a bank, a cash center, or the like.

Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) installed in financial institutions or stores dispense cash (bills) by users who make transactions. Banknotes are replenished from the head office of the bank, the cash center of the bank, or the like at a predetermined timing, such as when the bank is full.

In some cases, there are more incoming transactions than outgoing transactions. In this case, even if the amount of banknotes inside the ATM is maintained at a certain amount or more, in order to maintain the normality of management, the banknotes inside the ATM are once collected, and newly prepared banknotes are transferred to the ATM. to load. When collecting banknotes from an ATM and preparing new banknotes, it is possible to strictly manage the banknotes to be loaded into the ATM using individual serial numbers attached to the banknotes (Patent Document 1). .

Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2015-56010

In Patent Literature 1 described above, the serial number of each banknote is read at the head office of the bank or the cash center, and collectively managed by a management code. In Patent Document 1, when preparing to carry out bills under management, the serial numbers of the bills are specified based on the management code. However, Patent Literature 1 does not mention how to always accurately manage banknotes in a banknote cassette that is used repeatedly, and there is room for improvement in terms of usability and reliability.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a banknote management apparatus and method capable of improving usability and reliability.

In order to solve the above-described problems, a bill management apparatus according to the present invention is a bill management apparatus for managing bills loaded in an automatic transaction apparatus, and is included in a bundle of bills from a bill sorting apparatus for creating a bundle of bills of a predetermined number. The serial number information, which is the serial number of all banknotes, is acquired, the serial numbers of the banknotes for each banknote bundle are stored in a identifiable first database, and the bundle of banknotes is loaded into a banknote cassette of an automatic transaction device. banknotes are specified, the specified serial numbers are stored in a second database that manages the serial numbers of banknotes in the banknote cassette, and the banknotes deposited and withdrawn from the banknote cassette by transactions in the automatic transaction device updating the second database by acquiring update information including the serial number of from the automated teller machine.

ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, the banknote in the banknote cassette with which an automatic transaction apparatus is mounted|worn can be managed.

1 is an overall schematic diagram of a banknote management system including a banknote management device according to the present embodiment; FIG. The block diagram of a banknote management system. The block diagram of an automatic transaction apparatus (ATM). The block diagram of the banknote sorting apparatus with a bundle winding function. An example of a serial number management database. An example in which a two-dimensional code is printed on paper for bundling bill bundles. An example of the contents of a two-dimensional code. Explanatory drawing which shows the recording method of a serial number at the time of loading a banknote bundle into a banknote cassette. An example of an in-cassette banknote management database. FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of updating the cassette-internal banknote management database based on a transaction at an ATM; An example of an in-cassette banknote management database. FIG. 11 is an explanatory diagram showing another example of updating the in-cassette banknote management database based on transactions at the ATM; An example of an in-cassette banknote management database corresponding to FIG. 4 is a flow chart showing a process when the in-cassette banknote management database and the update information from the ATM do not match. FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing an example where the database and update information do not match; FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram showing another example in which the database and update information do not match; FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing how the database is corrected when the database and update information do not match; Explanatory drawing of the structure which detects and outputs the usage condition of the banknote in a banknote cassette.

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION An embodiment of the present invention will be described below based on the drawings. The banknote management apparatus according to the present embodiment is a recycling-type banknote management system in which banknotes collected from an ATM are loaded into a banknote cassette and reused. , to accurately manage banknotes in a banknote cassette.

For example, the banknote management system 1 includes an automatic transaction machine (hereinafter also referred to as an ATM) 21, a banknote management device 11, and a banknote sorting device 13. The banknote sorting device 13 prepares a predetermined number of banknote bundles 3 and , the serial number information of all banknotes of the banknote bundle 3 is transmitted to the banknote management device 11, and the banknote management device 11 manages the serial number information of the banknotes transmitted from the banknote sorting device 13 as a "first database". In addition to storing in the database 14, the serial number information of the banknote bundle 3 loaded in the banknote cassette 25 of the automatic transaction device 21 is stored in the cassette banknote management database 15 as a "second database", and the automatic transaction device 21 performs the transaction. to the banknote management device 11, and the banknote management device 11, based on the serial number information of the banknotes deposited and withdrawn by the transaction, transmitted from the automated teller machine 21, The banknote management database 15 is updated.

In the following description, the bill cassette may be abbreviated as cassette, the serial number management database as serial number database, and the in-cassette bill management database as in-cassette bill database. Note that the database is abbreviated as DB in the figure.

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing an overall overview of a banknote management system 1 including a banknote management device 11 according to this embodiment. The configuration disclosed in FIG. 1 shows an example of this embodiment. This embodiment may also include configurations not shown in FIG.

The banknote management system 1 includes, for example, a banknote management device 11, a two-dimensional code reader 12, a banknote sorting device 13 with a bundle winding function, a serial number management database 14, an in-cassette banknote management database 15, and an ATM 21. .

As shown in the system configuration diagram of FIG. One or a plurality of ATMs 21 are arranged in the transaction business area 20 where the internal bill management database 15 is arranged. The management business area 10 is, for example, a head office of a bank or a cash center. The transaction business areas 20 are, for example, bank branches, commercial facilities, stations, airports, and the like.

Returning to FIG. 1, the functional configuration and processing of the banknote management system 1 will be described. The banknote management apparatus 11 can include, for example, an in-cassette banknote management unit 111 , a serial number information acquisition unit 112 , and a deposit/withdrawal information acquisition unit 113 .

The banknote sorting device 13 with a bundle winding function creates a banknote bundle 3 by bundling a predetermined number of banknotes, for example, 100 banknotes (S1).

The in-cassette banknote management unit 111 has a function of managing the number, type and serial number of banknotes in the banknote cassette 25 . The serial number information acquisition unit 112 acquires the serial number of each banknote bundle detected by the banknote sorting device 13 with a bundle winding function (S2), and stores the serial number in the serial number management database 14 (S3).

On the other hand, the banknote bundle 3 created by the banknote sorting device 13 with a bundle winding function is unwound by a worker or a robot (not shown) and loaded into the banknote cassette 25 (S4). When the banknote cassette 25 is loaded with a predetermined number of banknotes constituting the banknote bundle 3, the two-dimensional code 4 printed on the bundle of banknote bundles 3 is read by a two-dimensional code reader (S5). It is input to the in-cassette banknote management unit 111 . A detailed example of the two-dimensional code 4 will be described later with reference to FIG. The two-dimensional code 4 includes at least the serial number of the leading banknote of the banknote bundle 3 .

In this embodiment, the two-dimensional code 4, which is an example of "bundled banknote information", is printed on the surface of the paper that bundles the banknote bundles 3, for example. An RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tag may be attached to the banknote bundle 3 instead of the two-dimensional code. In that case, the two-dimensional code reader 12 will replace the RFID tag reader.

The in-cassette banknote management unit 111 is based on the serial number information for each banknote bundle obtained from the banknote sorting device 13 with a bundle winding function and the serial number of the leading banknote of the banknote bundle 3 obtained from the two-dimensional code reader 12. Then, the serial number and order of the banknotes loaded in each banknote cassette 25 are calculated, and the calculation result is stored in the intra-cassette banknote management database 15 (S6).

The banknote cassette 25 loaded with banknotes is transported and attached to each ATM 21 in the transaction business area 20 by a worker (S7). Each ATM 21 deposits or withdraws money according to a customer's request. The deposit/withdrawal information as “update information” is sent from the ATM 21 to the deposit/withdrawal information acquisition unit 113 .

The deposit/withdrawal information acquisition unit 113 acquires the deposit/withdrawal information of the banknotes in the banknote cassette 25 from each ATM 21, and notifies the in-cassette banknote management unit 111 (S8).

The in-cassette bill management unit 111 updates the in-cassette bill management database 15 based on the deposit/withdrawal information acquired from the ATM 21 by the deposit/withdrawal information acquisition unit 113 and the serial number management database 14 (S9).

The in-cassette bill management unit 111 compares the deposit/withdrawal information with the contents stored in the in-cassette bill management database 15, and if they do not match, corrects the contents stored in the in-cassette bill management database 15 based on a predetermined condition. You can also

For example, when the number of discrepancies between the serial number in the deposit/withdrawal information and the serial number stored in the in-cassette bill management database 15 is less than or equal to a predetermined value, the in-cassette bill management unit 111 removes a plurality of bills from the bill cassette 25. The stored contents of the in-cassette bill management database 15 are determined so that the bills are piled up and taken out at the same time, the surplus bills are rejected and collected, and the deposit/withdrawal information and the stored contents of the in-cassette bill management database 15 match. to update.

For example, when a plurality of serial numbers are stored in the in-cassette banknote management database 15 in an order opposite to the order of the serial numbers stored in the deposit/withdrawal information, the in-cassette banknote management unit 111 It is determined that a banknote bundle corresponding to a plurality of banknotes stored in the in-cassette banknote management database 15 in reverse order is loaded upside down into the banknote cassette 25, and the deposit/withdrawal information and the storage contents of the in-cassette banknote management database 15 are compared. are updated so that the storage contents of the in-cassette banknote management database 15 are matched.

Note that the banknote management device 11 acquires the serial numbers of the banknotes remaining in the banknote cassette 25 recovered from the ATM 21 from the banknote sorting device 13 with a bundle winding function, and records the banknotes remaining in the recovered banknote cassette 25 . It is also possible to compare the number with the contents stored in the cassette bill management database 15 and output the comparison result.

According to the present embodiment configured in this way, banknotes in the ATM of each bank branch are prepared at the head office of the bank (or a cash center, etc.), and after a predetermined period of time, individual banknote cassettes are collected. Banknotes in the ATM (banknotes in the cassette) can be strictly managed in real time. As a result, according to the present embodiment, it is possible to grasp the excess or deficiency of banknotes in real time, so that cash management including replenishment and collection of banknotes can be performed accurately and efficiently.

A first embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 2 to 18. FIG. FIG. 2 is an overall configuration diagram of the banknote management system 1. As shown in FIG. A plurality of ATMs (machine No. 1 to machine No. n) are installed in the bank branch which is the transaction business area 20 . The bank head office (or cash center, hereinafter referred to as the head office, etc.), which is a management area 10, provides each bank branch with cash (banknotes and coins) as needed, and also provides unnecessary cash and replacement cash. We also collect the cash of The head office or the like includes a banknote management device 11 having a two-dimensional code reader 12 , a banknote sorting device 13 with a bundle winding function for sorting banknotes, a serial number management database 1514 , and an in-cassette banknote management database 15 .

The banknote management device 11 has a two-dimensional code reader 12 . The banknote management device 11 is connected to the banknote sorting device 13 with a bundle winding function, the serial number management database 15, and the in-cassette banknote management database 15 via communication lines, and transmits and receives necessary information. The banknote management device 11 is also connected to the ATM 21 of the bank branch under its control via a communication line CN, and transmits and receives necessary information.

The banknote sorting device 13 with a bundle winding function is connected to the banknote management device 11 and the serial number management database 15 via a communication line, and transmits and receives necessary information.

The ATM 21 has, for example, a touch panel for customers to perform transaction operations, an insertion/ejection slot for bankbooks and cards, and an inlet/outlet for banknotes and coins. The ATM 21 includes a banknote processing unit 22 for processing banknote deposits and withdrawals, a coin processing unit 23 for processing coin deposits and withdrawals, and a passbook/card processing unit (not shown), which controls the operation of each unit. It also has a control unit 24 for communicating with the outside.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing the internal configuration of the banknote processing unit 22 of the ATM 21. As shown in FIG. The banknote deposit/withdrawal port 26 communicates with a deposit/withdrawal port (not shown) of the apparatus main body of the ATM 21, and is a port through which a customer deposits banknotes and takes out banknotes to be paid out, and is opened and closed by a shutter or the like.

The banknote discrimination unit 27 performs denomination discrimination, authenticity discrimination, and the like of banknotes. The temporary storage unit 28 temporarily stores deposited banknotes, for example, in order to confirm the amount of deposited banknotes. Temporary storage unit 28 can also be called temporary storage 28 . The banknote cassettes 25 (#1) to 25 (#3) are recycle bins that store banknotes by denomination and can store and take out banknotes. The banknote cassette 25 can be removed and carried. One of the banknote cassettes 25 (for example, the left end in FIG. 3) may be used as a reject cassette 25R dedicated to accommodation. The reject cassette 25R stores damaged banknotes and the like that are discriminated as unsuitable for withdrawal among the deposited banknotes.

The control unit 29 has a function of controlling the operation of the banknote processing unit 22 and communicating with the banknote management apparatus 11 installed in the head office or the like in cooperation with the control unit 24 of the apparatus body of the ATM 21 . For example, the control unit 29 can detect serial number information and the like for each banknote put in and taken out from each banknote cassette 25 in deposit transactions and withdrawal transactions, and notify the banknote management device 11 of the information.

FIG. 4 is a schematic configuration diagram of the banknote sorting device 13 with a bundle winding function. The banknote sorting device 13 with a bundle winding function includes, for example, a deposit unit 131, a discrimination unit 132, a plurality of separation ports 133, a return unit 134, a bundle winding unit 135 with a printing function, and a paper feed cassette mounting unit 136. Prepare.

The banknote sorting device 13 with a bundle winding function sorts the banknotes set in the deposit unit 131 based on the discrimination result of the discrimination unit 132 and predetermined rules, and stores the sorted banknotes in the separation ports 133 . The separation port 133 has an open structure so that a staff member can take out bills from the outside. Banknotes discriminated as not to be classified by the discriminating unit 132 are returned to the attendant from the return port 134 .

The bundling unit 135 with printing function bundles the banknotes set in the deposit unit 131 into bundles of a predetermined number of sheets (for example, 100 sheets), and discharges the bundled bills to the opening. As will be described later, predetermined information (banknote bundle information) can be printed on the bundle of paper.

The banknote cassette 25 of the ATM 21 is attached to the banknote cassette attachment portion 136 . Instead of depositing from the deposit unit 131 , it is possible to feed bills from the bill cassette 25 attached to the paper feed cassette attachment unit 136 and deposit them.

In order to prepare banknotes to be stored in the banknote cassette 25 of the ATM 21, the banknote sorting device 13 with a bundle winding function creates a banknote bundle 3 of 100 units as a predetermined number. When the banknote bundle 3 is created, the serial number of each of the 100 banknotes is read and recorded in the serial number management database 14 in the format shown in FIG. That is, the serial number management database 14 manages serial numbers for each banknote bundle having a predetermined number of banknotes.

A two-dimensional code 4 as shown in FIG. 6 is printed on a bundle of bills for bundling. As shown in FIG. 7, the two-dimensional code 4 includes, for example, information on the date and time of creation of the banknote bundle, information indicating the quality of the banknote, the denomination code, the number of banknotes, and the identification code of the clerk who created the banknote bundle. (ID), containing the serial number of the first banknote (leading banknote) of the banknote bundle.

Therefore, by obtaining the serial number of the leading banknote from the two-dimensional code 4 and referring to the serial number management database 14, the serial numbers of all the banknotes included in the banknote bundle 3 on which the two-dimensional code 4 is printed are specified. can do.

Bills are loaded into the bill cassette 25 of the ATM using the banknote bundle 3 of 100 units in which the serial number information and the like of all bills are managed as described above. A staff member at the head office or the like loads the required number of banknotes into each banknote cassette 25 in each ATM 21 of each bank branch. For example, when loading 300 10,000-yen bills into the banknote cassette 25#1 of the ATM No. 1 of the Y branch, three bundles of 10,000-yen banknotes are prepared in the empty banknote cassette 25, and the banknotes with the bundles removed are used. , sequentially into the bill cassette 25 .

FIG. 8 shows how bills are loaded into the bill cassette 25 . In FIG. 8, a bill bundle 3A consisting of a total of 100 bills with serial numbers A0000 to A0099, a bill bundle 3B consisting of a total of 100 bills with serial numbers B0000 to B0099, and a total of 100 bills with serial numbers C0000 to C0099. A banknote bundle 3C composed of banknotes is loaded into the banknote cassette 25 of the ATM 21 in the order of the banknote bundles 3A, 3B, and 3C.

When the banknotes are loaded into the cassette 25, the two-dimensional code reader 12 reads the two-dimensional code 4 recorded on each banknote bundle, whereby the banknote management device 11 obtains the serial numbers of all the banknotes forming the banknote bundle. can be recognized. Then, the bill management apparatus 11 registers the serial numbers of the recognized bills in the bill cassette 25 in the in-cassette bill management database 15 .

That is, the clerk uses the two-dimensional code reader 12 of the banknote management device 11 to read the two-dimensional code 4 recorded on each bundle of paper. The banknote management device 11 recognizes the serial number of the leading banknote of the banknote bundle 3 from the read two-dimensional code, and searches the serial number management database 14 for the same serial number. As a result, the banknote management apparatus 11 can recognize the serial numbers of the remaining 99 banknotes following the leading banknote and specify the serial numbers of 100 banknotes of the banknote bundle. The specified serial number is registered in the in-cassette banknote management database 15 .

FIG. 9 shows a state in which serial numbers have been registered in the in-cassette banknote management database 15 according to the above procedure. In this example, it is indicated that 3,000,000 yen has been loaded into cassette No. 1 of the banknote cassettes of ATM No. 1 of the Y branch.

Thereafter, in the same manner, all loaded banknotes are loaded into other banknote cassettes 25, banknotes are loaded into banknote cassettes 25 of other ATMs 21, and banknotes are loaded into banknote cassettes 25 of ATMs of other branches. Serial numbers of banknotes are registered in the in-cassette banknote management database 15 in advance.

In this way, the banknote management apparatus 11 of the present embodiment can manage serial number information for banknotes in all banknote cassettes 25 in all ATMs of all branches. Instead of this, the banknote management apparatus 11 may manage banknotes in such a cassette unit only for a specific ATM of a specific branch to be managed.

When loading the bundle of banknotes 3 into the cassette 25, if the upper surface and the lower surface are reversed, the order of the serial numbers in the cassette 25 and the order of the serial numbers registered in the in-cassette banknote management database 15 will differ. is reversed. However, the banknote management apparatus 11 of this embodiment can detect the abnormality during transaction of the ATM 21 when the banknotes of the banknote bundle 3 are loaded upside down, and the in-cassette banknote management database 15 can be detected. When updating, the arrangement of the serial numbers stored in the database 15 can be corrected. The details will be described later.

Next, a method of real-time updating the intra-cassette bill management database 15 in which detailed information of the bills in each bill cassette 25 is registered when bills are loaded into the cassette 25 as described above will be described.

Here, an example will be described in which three 10,000 yen bills (30,000 yen) are deposited at ATM No. 1 in the Y branch. At this time, it is assumed that deposited banknotes are stored in the banknote cassette 25 (#1) described with reference to FIG.

A customer who performs a deposit transaction uses the ATM 21 shown in FIG. ).

The ATM 21 feeds these banknotes from the deposit/withdrawal port 26 , discriminates the authenticity, denomination, and serial number of the banknotes in the banknote discriminator 27 , and stores the banknotes in the temporary storage unit 28 . The banknote discrimination unit 27 identifies the first banknote as "genuine note/10,000 yen/serial number M0000", the second banknote as "genuine note/10,000 yen/serial number M0001", and the third banknote as "genuine note/10,000 yen/serial number M0001". ``genuine note/10,000 yen/serial number M0002'' are identified respectively, and the three identified bills are stored in the temporary storage section .

The ATM 21 displays "Deposit amount: 30,000 yen?" on the customer operation screen. When the customer confirms that the deposited amount matches the amount recognized by the ATM 21, the customer inputs "Yes (OK)" on the customer operation screen. As a result, the ATM 21 stores the three banknotes stored in the temporary storage section 28 into the banknote cassette 25 (#1).

Since the ordinary temporary storage unit 28 pays out the banknote stored last first, the third banknote (serial number M0002) → the second banknote (serial number M0001) → the first banknote (serial number M0000), and are stored in the banknote cassette 25 (#1) from the top in this order. This state is shown in FIG.

The control unit 22 of the ATM 21 (here, machine No. 1) recognizes that the banknote storage state in the banknote cassette 25 (#1) has changed due to the above transaction, and transmits the information to the banknote management device 11 of the head office or the like. That is, an update indicating that three 10,000-yen bills with serial numbers "M0002", "M0001", and "M0000" have been added to the bill cassette 25 (#1) by the customer's deposit transaction at the ATM 21. Information is transmitted to the banknote management apparatus 11 .

As shown in FIG. 11 , the banknote management apparatus 11 updates the storage contents of the in-cassette banknote management database 15 upon receiving update information from the ATM 21 . In the in-cassette banknote management database 15 of FIG. 10, the number of banknotes is updated from "300" to "303", and "M0002", "M0001", and "M0000" are added as serial number information.

In this embodiment, the banknote management device 11 placed in the head office or the like remotely manages the number of banknotes stored in the banknote cassette 25 of each ATM 21 and the serial number in real time, but the present invention is not limited to this. Also in each ATM 21, the number and serial number of banknotes accommodated in each banknote cassette 25 may be managed in real time. The banknote management device 11 may manage all the banknote cassettes 25 of the ATM 21 to be managed, or may manage only a part of the banknote cassettes.

Next, a method for updating the in-cassette bill management database 15 in real time in a withdrawal transaction will be described. A case where a withdrawal transaction of 30,000 yen is performed at ATM No. 1 of Y branch will be described as an example. At this time, it is assumed that three 10,000-yen bills are drawn out from the bill cassette 25 (#1) described in FIG. 9 and dispensed.

A customer performing a withdrawal transaction performs operations such as card insertion, personal authentication, withdrawal amount input, etc. at the ATM 21 shown in FIG. 3 according to the guidance on the operation screen. As a result, the ATM 21 feeds out three 10,000-yen bills stored in the bill cassette 25 (#1) from the top, and the bill discriminating unit 27 passes the 10,000-yen bills (not damaged such as torn) to the customer. While confirming that the bill is a correct genuine bill of 10,000 yen, the bill is conveyed to the bill deposit/withdrawal port 26.例文帳に追加This state is shown in FIG.

Before withdrawal, three 10,000 yen bills (three bills with serial numbers "C0000", "C0001", and "C0002" from the top) on the upper side of the bill cassette 25 (#1) are fed out. After the withdrawal, the 10,000-yen bill with the serial number "C0003" comes to the top, bringing the total number of bills to 297. The discrimination unit 27 recognizes the serial numbers of the banknotes fed from the banknote cassette 25 (#1), and the control unit of the ATM 21 counts the number of 10,000 yen banknotes (3) fed from the banknote cassette 25 (#1). and its serial number information (C0000, C0001, C0002) are transmitted as update information to the banknote management apparatus 11 of the head office or the like.

The banknote management device 11 that has received the update information of the banknote cassette 25 (#1) of ATM No. 1 accesses the banknote management database 15 in the cassette, and obtains the serial numbers of the three banknotes that should have been dispensed in the withdrawal transaction. should be "C0000", "C0001", and "C0002". Then, the banknote management apparatus 11 compares the serial numbers of the dispensed banknotes (C0000, C0001, C0002) included in the received update information with the serial numbers specified from the in-cassette banknote management database 15, and match. The banknote management device 11 determines that the withdrawal transaction has been performed normally at the ATM 21 in a state where the banknote management database 15 in the cassette is correctly managed, and updates the banknote management database 15 in the cassette.

That is, the banknote management apparatus 11 erases the serial number information of the three banknotes recorded in the in-cassette banknote management database 15 (deletes C0000, C0001, and C0002) and updates the number of banknotes (300→297). ) and FIG. 13 shows the recorded contents of the in-cassette bill management database 15 after being updated in this way.

Next, a description will be given of the processing when the serial numbers do not match in the above-described match confirmation of the serial numbers of the in-cassette banknote management database 15 and the update information.

When the banknote management device 11 confirms that the serial number of the banknote management database 15 in the cassette and the serial number of the update information do not match, the banknote management device 11 sends the cassette to the ATM 21 at a predetermined timing, such as during a time period in which customers do not use the ATM much. Instruct to scrutinize the bills inside.

The ATM 21, which has received the inspection instruction from the banknote management device 11, feeds out all the banknotes in the cassette 25 to be inspected, and temporarily stores them in an empty banknote cassette 25 or the like while reading the serial number by the banknote discrimination unit 27.例文帳に追加When all the banknotes are discriminated, the banknote management device 11 returns the banknotes to the original banknote cassette 25 . The ATM 21 temporarily stores the serial number information and the like of all banknotes, and transmits the serial number information of all banknotes to the banknote management device 11 as correction information. The banknote management device 11 that has received the correction information from the ATM 21 can correct (rewrite all) the in-cassette banknote management database 15 .

Rewriting all the banknote management database 15 in the cassette is accurate, but the process takes time, and the amount of communication increases when the serial number information of all banknotes is sent from the ATM 21 to the banknote management device 11 .

By the way, on the other hand, depending on the degree and content of the serial number discrepancy, it is possible to correct the content of the in-cassette bill management database 15 to the correct content without performing the above-described scrutiny, as described below. For example, (1) there is a slight mismatch, and (2) when the banknote cassette 25 is loaded with the bundle of banknotes 3, it is considered to be loaded upside down.

FIG. 14 is a flow chart showing processing when the serial number stored in the cassette bill management database 15 and the serial number included in the update information do not match.

As described above, when the bill management device 11 acquires the update information from the ATM 21 (S20), it compares it with the storage contents of the in-cassette bill management database 15 (S21). If the update information matches the content of the in-cassette banknote management database 15 (S22: NO), the banknote management apparatus 11 returns to step S20. On the other hand, if the update information and the contents of the in-cassette banknote management database 15 match (S22: YES), the banknote management apparatus 11 determines the degree of mismatch (S23).

If the degree of discrepancy is large, that is, if the number of banknotes whose serial numbers do not match is equal to or greater than a predetermined value (S23: Large discrepancy), the banknote management apparatus 11 determines that close examination is necessary (S24). A scrutinization process is performed (S27).

In the first case where the degree of mismatch is small, that is, when the number of banknotes with mismatched serial numbers is less than a predetermined number (S23: Mismatch Minor 1), the banknote management device 11 determines that there is a minor mismatch (S25 ), and corrects the in-cassette bill management database 15 (S28).

Minor discrepancies refer to discrepancies in the number of serial numbers of only a few sheets, with the other serial numbers matching. In this case, the banknote management apparatus 11 assumes that the database 15 has not been updated in the past, and can update the database 15 by ignoring the discrepant serial number.

FIG. 15 shows an example of minor discrepancies. In this example, five banknotes were dispensed in the withdrawal transaction, but there were rejected banknotes, and the serial numbers of the five dispensed banknotes were "N0000", "N0001", "N0002", Assume that they are "N0005" and "N0006". At that time, the serial number recorded in the cassette bill management database 15 has the contents shown on the left side of FIG.

In this example, the serial number "N0003" of the fourth banknote from the top of the database 15 does not match the serial number "N0004" of the fifth banknote. However, with regard to the serial numbers "N0005" and "N0006" of subsequent banknotes, the contents of the database 15 and the serial numbers of the actually dispensed banknotes match.

In such a case, the two banknotes with serial numbers "N0003" and "N0004" stored in the database 15 are presumed to have been fed out from the cassette 25 while overlapping each other and accommodated in the reject cassette 25R. Therefore, the banknote management apparatus 11 ignores the serial numbers “N0003” and “N0004” of the collected two banknotes that were fed out from the cassette 25 in a double stack, and ignores the serial numbers “N0000” recorded in the database 15 . , "N0001", "N0002", "N0003", "N0004", "N0005" and "N0006". The updated database 15 becomes "N0007", "N0008", . . .

In the second case where the degree of mismatch is small (S23: Small mismatch 2), that is, when the banknotes of the banknote bundle 3 are loaded upside down into the paper feed cassette 25, the banknote management device 11 loads the banknotes upside down. (S26), and corrects the stored contents of the in-cassette banknote management database 15 (S29).

When loading the banknote bundle 3 into the cassette 25 as described with reference to FIG. 8, for example, if the banknote bundle 3C is loaded upside down, the banknotes are arranged upside down from the arrangement shown in FIG. and becomes as shown in FIG. As a result, there is a difference between the sequence of serial numbers of the actual banknotes in the banknote cassette 25 and the content of the in-cassette banknote management database 15 shown in FIG.

If, for example, four banknotes are dispensed from the banknote cassette 25 while the banknotes are loaded upside down in the cassette 25, the serial numbers of the dispensed banknotes are "C0099", "C0098", and "C0097". ”, and “C0096”. Since "C0000", "C0001", "C0002", and "C0003" are registered in the order from top to bottom as shown in FIG.

The banknote management apparatus 11 scans the in-cassette banknote management database 15 to detect areas in which the same serial numbers are registered in reverse order. As a result, the banknote management apparatus 11 presumes that the banknote bundle 3C has been loaded upside down when loaded into the banknote cassette 25, and rewrites the recorded contents of the area corresponding to the banknote bundle 3C in the database 15 upside down (Fig. 17).

As described above, the banknote management apparatus 11 can match the actual stored state of banknotes in the banknote cassette 25 with the content (registered content) stored in the database 15 . In this embodiment, after that, the serial numbers (C0099, C0098, C0097, C0096) of the fed banknotes are erased. good too.

As described above, according to this embodiment, the banknotes in the banknote cassette 25 can be strictly managed, so that the banknote cassette 25 can be efficiently operated as follows.

(1) Reduction of time required for counting bills in bill cassette 25

The banknote management device 11 manages information about "which banknotes are in what order and how many in the banknote cassette 25" together with serial number information. Under such circumstances, for example, when there is a cassette 25 containing 2,000 banknotes, counting the cassettes 25 and creating a new cassette 25 containing 2,000 banknotes is a wasteful task. be. Therefore, the banknote management apparatus 11 of this embodiment reduces the work time required to create a new cassette to be supplied to the ATM 21 .

The banknote management apparatus 11 of the present embodiment uses the information on the banknotes in the cassette 25 collected from the ATM 21 to minimize the number of banknotes required by the cassette 25 to be delivered to the ATM 21 from the collected cassette 25 . You can make it by just unrolling it.

For example, when making a cassette 25 containing 2000 banknotes of a predetermined denomination, if the collected cassette 25 contains 2035 banknotes of a predetermined denomination, the collected cassettes 25 to 35 A cassette 25 loaded with 2000 bills can be made by feeding out and removing only the bills.

That is, if a banknote cassette 25 containing 2035 banknotes is connected to the banknote cassette mounting portion 136 of the banknote sorting apparatus 13 with a bundle winding function shown in FIG. , the banknote cassette 25 containing 2000 banknotes can be prepared quickly.

(2) Reduction in the number of cassettes collected from ATMs

Since there are a total of four or five banknote cassettes 25 in the ATM 21, including recycling cassettes that are loaded and collected, replacing all the cassettes 25 is a burden for a banknote delivery company (Cash In Transit: CIT). be.

On the other hand, an ATM 21 is stipulated to be loaded with 2,000 20-dollar bills, 1,000 10-yuan bills, 1,000 1-dollar bills, and 1,000 5-dollar bills. Therefore, the CIT needs to set the cassette 25 in the ATM 21 according to its instructed operation.

The banknote management apparatus 11 of the present embodiment can grasp information on how many banknotes of what denomination are contained in each cassette 25 of the ATM 21 in real time (this can also be referred to as in-cassette banknote information). Therefore, according to this embodiment, in the ATM 21, by collecting surplus banknotes into the reject cassette 25R so that a predetermined number of banknotes remain in each cassette 25, the number of cassettes brought back from the site by the CIT can be reduced.

For example, when the banknote cassette 25 loaded with 1000 10-yuan bills is required, assume that the number of banknotes stored in the 10-yuan banknote cassette 25 of the ATM 21 to be collected by the CIT is 1020. In this case, if twenty 10 yuan banknotes are transferred to the reject cassette 25R by maintenance operation of the ATM 21 immediately before the CIT collects the cassette 25, the banknote cassette 25 loaded with 1000 10 yuan banknotes can be removed from the banknote cassette 25. can be made on site. Therefore, the CIT does not need to collect from the ATM 21 the cassette 25 containing 1000 10 yuan bills.

(3) Analysis of the number of banknotes loaded in the cassette

According to this embodiment, when the cassettes 25 used in the ATM 21 are recovered to the head office or the like and counted, by entering the number of the cassette 25, the banknotes originally loaded in the cassette 25 when the ATM 21 is loaded can be counted. can be compared with the serial numbers of banknotes remaining in the cassette 25 collected from the ATM 21 .

As shown in the upper part of FIG. 18, by comparing them, it can be determined where the banknotes originally existed and where the banknotes deposited by the customer started (S40). By collecting this information, for example, as shown in the lower part of FIG. It is possible to analyze the number of banknotes and present the result to the user of the banknote management device 11 (S41).

For example, in the example of FIG. 18, the second cassette 25 should be loaded with a little more 10-dollar bills, but the fourth cassette 25 with about 1000 50-dollar bills is sufficient. can be estimated.

According to this embodiment configured as described above, the banknotes in the ATMs of the respective bank branches are prepared at the head office or the like, and the banknotes in the cassettes of the individual ATMs are consistently collected from the banknote cassettes after a predetermined period of time. can be strictly managed in real time. Thus, according to the present embodiment, it is possible to grasp the surplus or shortage of banknotes in real time, and to perform cash management including replenishment and collection of banknotes accurately and efficiently. Convenience for the user is improved.

In addition, this invention is not limited to embodiment mentioned above. Those skilled in the art can make various additions, modifications, etc. within the scope of the present invention. Features described in the embodiments can be combined as appropriate.

1: bill management system, 3: bill bundle, 4: two-dimensional code, 10: management work area, 11: bill management device, 12: two-dimensional code reader, 13: bill sorting device with bundle winding function, 14: serial number Management database 15: In-cassette bill management database 20: Transaction business area 21: ATM 111: In-cassette bill management unit 112: Serial number information acquisition unit 113: Deposit/withdrawal information acquisition unit

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A banknote management device for managing banknotes loaded in an automatic transaction device,
Serial number information, which is the serial number of all banknotes included in the banknote bundle, is acquired from a banknote sorting device that creates a bundle of banknotes of a predetermined number, and the serial number of each banknote for each banknote bundle is stored in a first database capable of specifying the banknote serial number. let
A second database for specifying the serial numbers of all banknotes of the bundle of banknotes to be loaded into a banknote cassette of an automatic transaction device, and managing the serial numbers of the banknotes in the banknote cassette using the specified serial numbers. store to
Updating the second database by acquiring update information including serial numbers of banknotes deposited and withdrawn from the banknote cassette by transactions at the automatic transaction device from the automatic transaction device,
Banknote management device. The banknote sorting device prints banknote bundle information including a serial number of a predetermined banknote located at the head of the banknote bundle on a bundle of paper, and bundles the banknote bundle with the bundle of paper,
Acquiring the banknote bundle information when the bundle of banknotes is removed and all the banknotes are loaded into the banknote cassette;
Based on the serial numbers of the predetermined banknotes included in the acquired banknote bundle information and the first database, all the serial numbers of the banknote bundles to be loaded into the banknote cassette are identified and transferred to the second database. remember,
The banknote management device according to claim 1. Comparing the update information with the storage contents of the second database, and correcting the storage contents of the second database based on a predetermined condition if the update information and the storage contents of the second database do not match. ,
The banknote management device according to claim 1 or 2. The predetermined condition is that the number of discrepancies between the serial number of the update information and the serial number stored in the second database is equal to or less than a predetermined value. are taken out at the same time, the excess banknotes are rejected and collected, and the storage contents of the second database are updated so that the update information and the storage contents of the second database match.
The banknote management device according to claim 3. The predetermined condition is a case where a plurality of serial numbers are stored in the second database in an order opposite to the order of the serial numbers stored in the update information, and in this case, It is determined that a banknote bundle corresponding to the plurality of banknotes stored in the second database in the reverse order is loaded upside down into the banknote cassette, and the update information and the storage contents of the second database match. so as to update the storage contents of the second database,
The banknote management device according to claim 3. The serial numbers of the banknotes remaining in the banknote cassette collected from the automated teller machine are obtained from the banknote sorting device, and the serial numbers of the banknotes remaining in the collected banknote cassette and the storage contents of the second database. and output the result of the comparison,
The banknote management device according to claim 1 or 2. A banknote management method for managing banknotes loaded in an automatic transaction device by a computer,
The calculator is
acquiring serial number information, which is the serial number of all the banknotes included in the banknote bundle, from a banknote sorting device that creates a bundle of banknotes of a predetermined number;
Store the banknote serial number for each bundle of banknotes in an identifiable first database;
identifying the serial numbers of all banknotes of the banknote bundle to be loaded into a banknote cassette of an automatic transaction device;
Store the specified serial number in a second database that manages the serial numbers of the banknotes in the banknote cassette;
Updating the second database by acquiring update information including serial numbers of banknotes deposited and withdrawn from the banknote cassette by transactions at the automatic transaction device from the automatic transaction device,
Banknote management method.

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