JPH025597B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a medium control system in a bookkeeping machine that prints on a booklet-like medium such as a bank passbook, which is formed by stitching together a plurality of sheets of paper.

A bookkeeping machine is used to record transaction information on a passbook in an automatic teller machine, automatic teller machine, or the like. The following will be explained using an automatic teller machine as an example.

When conducting transactions at traditional cash dispensing machines,
When the customer opens the designated page and inserts the passbook into the insertion slot of the bookkeeping machine, the bookkeeping machine prints the transaction details (payment amount, date, balance amount) on the line following the last line printed.
is recorded (printed) and returned to the customer through the insertion slot.

If the information to be recorded in one transaction is two or more lines and spans multiple pages, we return it through the insertion slot and ask the customer to open the next page and insert it again, but once it is returned to the insertion slot. When this occurs, the customer often goes home with the passbook thinking that the transaction has been completed, and it is a hassle for the customer to open the next page and insert the passbook again.

Therefore, in recent years, a bookkeeping machine has been proposed in which a turnpage mechanism is built into the bookkeeping machine, and when a page break is required, the passbook is transferred from the printing section to the turnpage mechanism, and the page break is performed internally. With a bookkeeping machine like this with a built-in turn page mechanism, customers can write on multiple pages without bothering them, and when a customer inserts a passbook for the first time, it is possible to write on multiple pages without having to bother the customer. Free yourself from the hassle of opening and inserting pages.

In such a bookkeeping machine, it is necessary to detect whether the turn page mechanism has correctly changed the page, or whether the next page to be printed has been correctly opened when the bankbook is inserted for the first time. For this reason, conventionally, a mark indicating the number of pages was attached to each sheet of a passbook, and on the other hand, the number of pages to be printed next was recorded on a magnetic memory section (hereinafter referred to as a magnetic stripe) attached to the surface of the passbook, and the page mark was attached to each sheet of the passbook. This is done by reading the magnetic stripe and comparing and collating the page numbers from the magnetic stripe. When a page break is made using the turn page mechanism, the page mark of the page break is similarly read and the page number is compared with the number of pages before the page break to determine whether the page break has been made correctly. That is, it was checked whether the page of the bankbook set in the printing section was opened correctly.

The problem here is that bankbooks with page marks attached to each leaf can be bookmarked as described above, but for old-style passbooks that do not have page marks attached to each leaf, the insertion is not possible. It is not possible to determine whether the passbook was inserted on the correct page or whether the page break was performed correctly. As a result, even within the same bank, the number of bookkeeping machines that can be used for bankbooks is limited, reducing operating efficiency.

The present invention eliminates such drawbacks and proposes a bookkeeping machine that can be used regardless of the presence or absence of page marks.The medium control system according to the present invention will be explained below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a bookkeeping machine, in which the bookkeeping machine 1 includes a pathway 3 having an insertion slot 2, a turn page section 4 provided along the pathway 3,
It includes an optical detection section 5 and a printing section 6. Of course, the pathway 3 is provided with a transport mechanism such as rollers for transporting the bankbook 7, but this is not shown.

FIG. 2 shows an example of the bankbook 7. The passbook 7 has one cover 7a and multiple inner sheets 7b bound together in the center, and each inner sheet 7b has a transaction date column, a payment amount column, a deposit amount column, and a balance column. etc., and each page has, for example, 24 lines.

FIG. 3 shows the detailed structure of the turn page section 4, FIG. 4 shows the detailed structure of the optical detection section 5, and FIG. 5 shows the detailed structure of the printing section 6.

As shown in a, the turn page section 4 includes a turn page roller 41, a pusher 42, a separator 43, a transmission type optical sensor 44, etc., which are provided along the pathway 3. In addition, roller 3
3a and 3b show part of a group of transfer rollers for transferring the bankbook 7 along the pathway 3.

The number of pages in the passbook 7 is increased and decreased in the turn page section 4, and the operations for each will be explained. If the number increases, the bankbook 7b is stopped at the position shown in the bankbook 7b, and the pusher 42 presses the bankbook 7 against the turn page roller 41. When the turn page roller 41 rotates in the direction of the arrow, the inner paper 7b goes through a curved state (indicated by a dotted line) and then reaches an inverted state (indicated by a chain line). When the sensor 44 detects that the inner paper 7b has reached the reversed state, the transfer roller 3
Since a and 3b rotate in the direction of the arrow, the passbook 7 is transferred downward, and the reversed inner sheet 7b returns to its original state, but the number of pages is increased by "+1".

Similarly, to make a page break to decrease the number of pages, as shown in c, the stop position of the bankbook 7 is positioned differently from that in case a, and when pressed by the pusher 42, the turn page roller 41 is It is rotated in the direction of the arrow so that the direction of rotation is opposite to that in case a, and the inner paper 7b is brought into a curved/inverted state.
When the sensor 44 detects that the passbook 7 is in an inverted state, the transfer rollers 3a and 5b transfer the bankbook 7 upward, unlike the transfer rollers a. As a result, the page number becomes "-1".

As shown in FIG. 4, the optical detection unit 5 includes a transmission type sensor 51 that detects the edge (lower edge) of the passbook 7;
Reflective sensor 5 that detects timing mark TM
2 and a reflective sensor 53 that detects the hyphen mark HM. Sensors 52, 53 and sensor 5
The distance from 1 is as described below. When the sensor 51 detects the lower end of the bankbook 7, the sensors 52 and 53 are arranged so as to be located directly below the 24th line (substantially the 25th line). Therefore, it is understood that the sensor 51 is for sending out a signal to start detection.

Now, when the passbook 7 is being transported by the transport roller group in the direction of the arrow, a. If there is a margin on the page, b. If not all print lines are printed,
cThe case in which all print lines are printed will be briefly described.

(a) When there is a margin The sensor 51 detects the bottom edge of the passbook 7,
Afterwards, a timing mark will be added as the passbook is transferred.
TM is detected, but a hyphen mark HM is detected before the timing mark TM ₂ is detected. The line number of the hyphen mark HM is determined by detecting the number of timing marks TM.

(b) When not all print lines are printed If the hyphen mark HM is still not detected by the sensor 53 at the time when the timing mark TM ₂ is detected by the sensor 52, it is printed on all print lines of the page. It is determined that this has not been done.

(c) When all printing lines are printed The sensor 51 detects the bottom edge of the passbook 7, and the hyphen mark HM is detected between the first timing mark TM _o and the second timing mark TM _o-1 . If detected, it is determined that all print lines are printed.In other words, it is determined that there are no lines to be printed on that page.

Sensors 51 - in each case of a, b, c
The signal states of 53 are shown in FIG. In FIG. 5, a, b, and c correspond to the aforementioned cases a, b, and c, and S51 to S53 indicate the outputs of the sensors 51 to 53.

The printing unit 6 includes a platen and a printing mechanism, although details thereof are omitted from the drawings, and the printing mechanism is a serial type, a line type, and an impact type.
It is non-impact, and the printed characters may be type or dot type, and a wire dot type serial printer is used as an example.

FIG. 6 shows the control circuit in blocks. In the figure,
71 is an optical detection control unit, 72 is a turn page control unit, 73 is a transfer control unit, OR1 to OR3 are OR circuits, AND1 and 2 are AND circuits, FF is a flip-flop circuit, 72a is a turn page control unit for page reduction, 72b is a turn page control unit for increasing pages.

The optical detection control section 71 obtains the outputs of the sensors 51 to 53 and outputs three signals. One is the print margin line presence signal S ₁ (corresponding to Figure 5 a), one is the unprinted page signal S ₂ (corresponding to Figure 5 b), and the remaining one is the last line signal. This is the printed signal S ₃ (corresponding to FIG. 5c).

A turn page control unit 72a for page reduction (hereinafter referred to as a reverse turn page control unit) rotates the turn page roller 41 in the direction shown in FIG. This is a turn page control unit 7 for increasing pages.
2b (hereinafter referred to as the normal turn page control section) is a turn page roller 41 that rotates in the direction shown in FIG. 3b to change pages in the passbook 7 so that the number of pages increases.

The transfer control unit 73 uses a group of transfer rollers provided along the pathway 3 to transfer the bankbook 7 in the suction direction or the discharge direction.

First, when the bankbook 7 is inserted into the insertion slot 2, the transfer control section 73 transfers the bankbook 7 downward (FIG. 1) via a group of rollers in response to the start signal SS. When transferred to the optical detection section 5, signals S51 to S53 are sent out from the sensors 51 to 53, respectively. Depending on the respective relationships, the optical detection control section 71 outputs one of the three signals. It is selected depending on which of the cases a to c in FIG. 5 the signals S51 to S53 correspond to. As shown in Figure 5c, the page is the last line (24th line).
If up to the last line (line 1) has been printed, the last line printed signal _S3 is sent, and if there are still unprinted lines on the page as shown in Figure 5a, the print margin line presence signal _S1 is sent. , as shown in Figure 5b, if all lines of the page are not printed, the unprinted page signal S ₂
Output each.

In the case of FIG. 5c: When the last line printed signal _S3 is sent out, it is input to the transfer control section 73 to transfer the passbook 7 to the turn page section 4, and is input to the turn page control section 72. This command instructs all forward turn page control units 72b to operate so as to increase the number of pages. Forward turn page control section 72b
When the addition of one page is completed, the transfer control section 73 transfers the bankbook 7 toward the optical detection section 5 again. As a result, signals S51 to S53 are sent out again from the sensors 51 to 53, but the page is either the unprinted page signal _S2 or the last line printed signal _S3 . If _S3 occurs again, the number of pages is increased again in the same manner as described above. When the signal _S2 occurs, that is, when the next increased page is an unprinted page, the flip-flop FF is set, so the output of the AND circuit AND1 becomes "1".
Then, the transfer control unit 73 is transferred via the OR circuit OR2.
The user is instructed to transfer the bankbook 7 to the printing unit 6. In that case, the bankbook 7 is set so that the first line is the printing line of the printing section 6.

In the case of Figure 5 b: If the opened page of the inserted bankbook 7 is an unprinted page, the unprinted page signal
_S2 is sent out, but flip-flop FF is in the reset state, so the AND circuit AND2
The output of is “1”, and as a result, the transfer control unit 7
3 transfers the bankbook 7 to the turn page section 4 and instructs the reverse turn page control section 72a of the turn page control section 72 to reduce the number of pages. When the reverse turn page is completed, the transfer control section 73 transfers the passbook 7 toward the optical detection section 5. In this case as well, signals S51 to S51 to S53
53 occurs, but in this case, there is a possibility that any one of the signals S ₁ to _{S 3} will be sent. First, when the unprinted page signal _S2 is sent again, reverse turn page control is performed in the same way to reduce the number of pages, and when the last line printed signal _S3 is sent, forward turn page control is performed. to increase the number of pages. As a result of the detection of the next page by the sensors 51 to 53, the unprinted page signal _S2 is naturally generated, but since the flip-flop FF is set, the output of the AND circuit AND1 becomes "1" and the OR circuit OR2 The transfer control section 73 is instructed to set the bankbook 7 in the printing section 6 via the transfer control section 73. In addition, when the printing margin line presence signal _S2 is sent out, it is sent to the transfer control unit 73 via the OR circuit OR2.
The passbook 7 is controlled to be set in the printing unit 6 as follows.

In the case of FIG. 5a: If the sensors 51 to 53 detect the open page of the bankbook 7 inserted through the insertion slot 2 and the print margin line presence signal S ₁ is sent, the signal S ₁ is The OR circuit OR2 instructs the transfer control section 73 to transfer the passbook 7 to the printing section 6 and to set the next line to be printed on the printing line.

When printing of transaction information is completed in the printing section 6, the passbook 7 is transferred toward the insertion port 2 by the transfer control section 73 and ejected. When printing spans multiple lines and the page is printed to the last line, and there are no more lines to print on that page, the number of pages is increased by one in the turn page section 4 without being ejected to the insertion slot. The first line of the new page is set to the print line and printing of the remaining transaction information continues.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the operations described so far, and in this case, the transfer operation of the passbook by the transfer control section is omitted.

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to perform bookkeeping processing even for passbooks that do not have page marks attached to each page. Instead of using a single bookkeeping machine, only one bookkeeping machine is required, which improves operating efficiency. In addition, it can be applied to both passbooks with and without page marks without adding any mechanism.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Figure 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of the bookkeeping machine, Figure 2 is a perspective view of the passbook, and Figure 3 shows the turn page section, where a shows the configuration, b shows the case of the forward turn page, and c shows the case of the reverse turn page. The relationship between the passbook and each component is shown. FIG. 4 shows the configuration of the optical detection section 4 in relation to a bankbook. FIG. 5 shows the outputs of the sensors 51 to 53, in which a shows a case where a blank line is printed, b shows an unprinted page, and c shows a case where the last line has been printed. FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing the control circuit, and FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the flow of its operation. In the figure, 1... Bookkeeping machine, 4... Turn page section,
5... Optical detection section, 6... Printing section, 7... Passbook,
51-53...Sensor, TM...Timing mark, HM...Hyphen mark, 71...Optical detection control unit, 72...Turn page control unit, 73...
Transfer control unit, S ₁ ... print margin line presence signal, S ₂ ... unprinted page signal, S ₃ ... last line printed signal.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1 Prints on a booklet-like medium made by stitching together multiple sheets of paper, and includes an optical detection unit that identifies whether an opened sheet of the inserted booklet-like medium is the correct page; a turn page section that changes the pages of the booklet-like medium so that the number of pages increases or decreases based on the detection result of the optical detection section; In a bookkeeping machine that includes a printing unit that prints on the desired line, the optical detection unit is configured to move relative to the booklet-like medium in a direction perpendicular to the print line, and the optical detection unit is configured to move relative to the booklet-like medium in a direction perpendicular to the print line. a first detector for detecting an edge of a leaf; a second detector for detecting a timing mark corresponding to a printed line after the first detector detects the edge; and a second detector for detecting a timing mark corresponding to a printed line; a third detector for detecting whether or not printed information exists in the printed line; Based on this, it is determined whether the next line to be printed exists on the opened paper sheet, and if the next line to be printed exists, it is printed in the printing unit, and if it does not exist, it is printed. A medium control method characterized in that a page feed operation and its direction are controlled for the turn page section.