JPH05324982A - Note processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To prevent a note jam and to prevent the machine down when the payment notes or the return notes are sent to a service part from a temporary accumulating part of an upper/rear side arranging part in a cash receipt/ payment transaction mode. CONSTITUTION:A note processor draws the relevant type of cash out of cassettes 3-5 for respective type of cashes and discharges the notes arranging their upper and rear sides in the same manner for each cash discharging instruction from a customer. A rear-side note collection controller is added to collectively send the notes 16 whose rear sides turned up are decided by a discriminating part 2 into a storing box 9 and then collects the notes 16 on a partitioning plate 42 in the loading/supplying and cash payment transaction modes. Then, the notes 16 collected on the plate 42 are transferred onto a stage 41 with no inversion by a batch note transfer means contained in the box 9. Then, the notes 16 are separated from each other and drawn out by a batch note separating mechanism 44. Thus, all notes are arranged with their upper sides up and discharged.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a banknote processing apparatus provided in an automatic transaction apparatus installed in a financial institution such as a bank, and more particularly to a plurality of banknotes of various kinds for handling a plurality of banknotes of various kinds. The present invention relates to a banknote handling apparatus which is detachably provided with a collective storage for supplying and collecting.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional bill processing apparatus of this type is disclosed in, for example, Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 3-90381, and a conventional example will be described based on this. Figure 1
1 is a schematic side sectional view showing the internal structure of a conventional banknote handling apparatus, and FIG. 12 is a schematic side view showing the configuration and operation of the front / back reversing unit in FIG.

In FIG. 11, reference numeral 1 denotes a customer service port rotatably arranged on the upper front of the banknote handling apparatus. It is a banknote slot for depositing money by a customer, a return slot for returning banknotes to the customer, and banknotes for the customer. It functions as a trading unit that also serves as a payment outlet. The customer service unit 1 has a pair of banknote guides (not shown) that are opposed to each other at regular intervals. The banknotes are sandwiched between the banknote guides to perform deposit / withdrawal and return processing.

Reference numeral 2 is a discriminating section for discriminating bills from authenticity, denomination, damage, front / back discrimination, and presence / absence of abnormal conveyance such as double feeding, chaining, or skew feeding. Is a denomination-based storage (hereinafter referred to as a denomination-based cassette) for accumulating and storing banknotes for deposit and withdrawal used for transactions, and the denomination-based cassettes 3 to 5 are arranged side by side on the bottom side of the apparatus. Reference numeral 6 denotes a depositing / dispensing unit arranged above these denomination cassettes 3-5. The deposit banknotes, which have been inserted by the customer and have been discriminated as transactable in the discrimination section 2 and conveyed, are provided in the respective denomination cassettes 3-5. The banknotes stored in the banknote 5 are taken out one by one from the denomination cassettes 3 to 5 and sent to the discriminating section 2 while the banknotes instructed to be withdrawn by the customer are taken out.

Reference numeral 7 denotes a front and back collecting mechanism arranged on the left side of the customer service section 1 for reversing and aligning the front and back of a bill discriminated from the back side by the discriminating section 2 at the time of withdrawal transaction. Reference numeral 8 denotes a temporary stacking unit arranged directly under the front and back collecting mechanism 7 for temporarily stacking banknotes to be returned to the customer when it is determined that the transaction is impossible at the time of deposit transaction and banknotes to be paid to the customer at the time of withdrawal transaction. Are provided in the front and back reversing unit. And this temporary collection unit 8
When all the bills to be returned or dispensed in the state of being sorted on the front side by the front and back sorting mechanism 7 are stacked, the bills are sent to the customer service section 1 by a transport path driven at a low speed.

Reference numeral 9 denotes a collective storage (hereinafter referred to as a collective cassette) arranged on the rear side of the apparatus, which is used for loading, replenishing, and collecting banknotes in the denomination-based cassettes 3 to 5, and collectively stores all denominations. Are stored. Reference numeral 10 denotes a reject storage box (hereinafter referred to as a reject cassette) arranged immediately below the collective cassette 9, and a banknote forgotten by the customer or an unfit banknote that is discriminated by the discriminating unit 2 as non-dispensable at the time of disbursement processing. Non-disbursed tickets (for example, 500-yen and 5,000-yen notes) or banknotes for which abnormal conveyance has been detected are stored.

Reference numeral 11 denotes a plurality of conveying paths connecting the above-mentioned respective constituent elements, and bills are conveyed through the conveying paths 11 to deal with each transaction processing. Next, the transaction operation of the banknote handling apparatus with the above configuration,
For example, a withdrawal transaction will be described as an example. First, the customer presses a withdrawal transaction key (not shown), inserts a card (not shown) into the card insertion slot or passbook insertion slot, and enters the customer's PIN from the input key. When a transaction regarding processing is performed and it is confirmed that the transaction is possible by this communication, the customer inputs the amount of withdrawal from the input key.

The banknote handling apparatus is in the withdrawal mode, and the banknotes of the amount corresponding to the withdrawal amount instructed by the customer by the depositing / dispensing unit 6 are fed out from the respective denomination cassettes 3 to 5 and passed through the conveying path 11. And send it to the discrimination section 2. The discriminating unit 2 discriminates the denomination, authenticity, and front / back of the sent bill, and detects the presence / absence of abnormal conveyance. The banknote determined to be able to be dispensed based on the discrimination result is conveyed to the front / back reversing unit including the front / back sorting mechanism 7 via the conveyance path 11.

Here, the schematic structure of the front / back reversing unit will be described with reference to FIG. In the figure, 12 is a transport path
Is a switching blade provided diagonally below and in front of the transport roller 12, and switches the transport direction depending on the result of discrimination between the front and back sides of the banknotes transported through the transport path 11. ing. 14
Is a conveyor belt which is a part of the front and back sorting mechanism 7, and 15 is a conveyor belt which faces the conveyor belt 14, and these are vertically opposed to each other with a predetermined interval as shown in FIG. The upper conveyor belt 14 approaches the lower conveyor belt 15 by a vertically moving means (not shown),
The conveyor belt 1 below this can be separated from each other.
A temporary stacking unit 8 for stacking banknotes 16 for withdrawal or return is set between the banknotes 5 and 5.

Numeral 17 designates the temporary collection unit 8 for the customer service unit 1.
The front guide 18 is located on the front end side, and the rear guide 18 is located on the rear end side of the temporary stacking unit 8 so as to face the front guide 17. The guides 18 and 18 serve to regulate the stacking position of the banknotes 16. The front guide 17 is rotated in the direction of the customer service section 1 with the upper end as a fulcrum by a power means (not shown) to open the front of the temporary stacking section 8.

Reference numeral 19 denotes a bill pushing-in mechanism which is movable in the front-rear direction along the lower conveyor belt 15, and the bills 16 accumulated in the temporary accumulating portion 8 on the conveyor belt 15 are handled by the customer service section 1.
It is pushed in and sent out. Next, a stacking operation of banknotes having front and back arranged in the above configuration and an operation of sending the banknotes to the customer service section will be described.

At the time of the deposit transaction, the returned banknotes determined by the discrimination unit 2 that cannot be handled by the discrimination unit 2 among the bills deposited by the customer pass through the conveyance path 11 shown in FIG. The sheet is fed to the temporary stacking unit 8 on the transport belt 15 from the transport roller 12 through the transport belt 14 without performing the front and back sorting operation.

However, at the time of the withdrawal transaction, when the bill dispensed from the denomination cassettes 3 to 5 is discriminated as the back side by the discriminating unit 2 according to the amount designated by the customer, based on the discrimination result. The switching blade 13 of the front and back collecting mechanism 7 is switched to switch the feeding direction of the bill 16 to the conveyor belt 14. That is, FIG.
In the structure shown in FIG. 2, the banknotes that have been discriminated and conveyed on the back side are sent from the conveyance rollers 12 to the front side and dropped from the front side of the conveyance belt 14 to the lower temporary stacking section 8 so that the banknotes are conveyed. Flip 16 and align to the front side. In addition, the bill 16 that is discriminated from the front surface in the discriminating unit 2
Is guided from the conveying roller 12 rearward by the switching blade 13 and dropped from the rear side of the conveying belt 14 into the temporary stacking unit 8 as described above. At this time, the banknotes 16 are dropped on the front surface without being inverted, so that the banknotes 16 are all stacked in the temporary stacking unit 8 in a state of being aligned on the front surface.

Thus, the returned banknotes at the time of deposit transaction,
Alternatively, when all the bills to be paid at the time of dispensing transaction are accumulated in the temporary accumulating unit 24, the conveyor belt 14 is lowered and sandwiched between the conveyor belt 15 and the opposing conveyor belt 15. Thereafter, the front guide 17 is rotated to the position indicated by the chain double-dashed line to open the front of the temporary stacking unit 8, and the conveyor belts 14 and 15 are rotationally driven to collectively bundle the banknotes 16 in the forward direction. Sent to the customer service department 1 side. At the same time, the bill pushing mechanism 19 is also moved in the direction of the customer service section 1 to push the accumulated bills from the rear end side to the front side, whereby the bills 16 are collectively fed to the customer service section 1.

When the bill 16 is fed into the customer service section 1,
The driving of the conveyor belt 15 is stopped, and the bill pushing mechanism 1
9 retreats back to its original position, and front guide 1
7 also rotates and returns to the original position, and the pushing operation of the banknote ends. Further, the customer service section 1 into which the bills have been sent is provided with a pair of bill guides 20 arranged at predetermined intervals in order to receive the bills 16, and the bills 16 sent between the bill guides 20. Is returned or paid to the customer by the customer service section 1.

[0016]

However, the above-mentioned conventional device has the following problems, which will be described with reference to the explanatory view of FIG. 13 showing the conventional problems. As shown in FIG. 13, in the conventional device, the banknotes to be returned or paid to the customer are temporarily accumulated in the temporary accumulation section 8 of the front / back reversing unit before being sent to the customer service section, and then the accumulated banknotes 16 are bundled. It will be sent to the customer service department 1 in batch.

The temporary stacking unit 8 for stacking the bills 16 and the customer service unit 1 for receiving the bills 16 are not in contact with each other as shown in FIG. 13 in the conventional structure but have a slight gap. However, the two were in a discontinuous state. Therefore, if there are bills 16 that are curled upward as shown in the figure among the bills 16 accumulated in the temporary accumulating unit 8, it is preferable that the bills 16 are pressed from above by the conveyor belt 14, When the banknote 16 is conveyed to the position where it is pushed into the customer service section 1, the conveyor belt 14 retracts upward, so that the banknote 16 curls back to its original position as indicated by the chain double-dashed line in the figure. There may be a case where the guide 17 and the end of the customer service section 1 enter a break A or the like. Further, when curled bills are accumulated in the lowermost layer, it is possible that the curling bills may enter a break B between the conveying bell 15 and the end of the customer service section 1, and the customer service section 1 in such a state. When the push-in operation is performed on the push-in mechanism, a bill jam is caused and the operation of the push-in mechanism 19 is stopped.

Further, even if there is no curl in the stacked banknotes, there is a risk that the stacked banknotes may be misaligned when they are collectively conveyed in a bundle, resulting in banknote jams. However, there is a problem that not only does the machine go down and the operating rate is reduced, but it also causes trouble to the customer. In addition, there is a problem that the space for the front and back reversing unit for collecting the front and back of the payment bill is large, which causes the device to become large.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above-mentioned problems, and even if the bills accumulated in the temporary accumulating portion are curled, the bills accumulated by operating in a bundle state. Even if it is misaligned, it prevents the occurrence of banknote jam when sending to the customer service section and prevents machine down, so that banknotes can be reliably sent to the customer service section, and even if the front and back reversing unit is not installed It is an object of the present invention to provide a small-sized bill processing device that can pay bills in a uniform manner.

[0020]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention is a batch storage in which a plurality of denominations of banknotes are collectively stored in a state of being aligned on the back side and can be attached to and detached from the apparatus main body. And a plurality of denomination-based storages for loading and replenishing banknotes from the batch storage, a discrimination unit for discriminating the banknotes delivered from the batch storage to be stored in the denomination-based storage, and the batch storage The banknotes from the storage are inverted and sent to the discrimination section, and the banknotes that have been discriminated to be dispensable by the discrimination section are conveyed to the respective denomination-based storage boxes, and the discrimination section determines that the dispensation is inappropriate. A deposit / withdrawal unit including a reject storage for storing rejected banknotes, and a banknote distribution / accumulation unit for distributing and accumulating the banknotes, which are fed out from the collective storage and are discriminated to be dispensable by the discriminating unit, into the respective coin storages And In the collective storage, a collective banknote separating mechanism that separates the banknotes in the collective storage from the uppermost one by one and feeds it out, and reverses the banknotes collected from each of the money-type storages and accumulated on the partition plate. In a banknote processing device comprising a batch banknote moving means that moves to a stage that can be separated by the batch banknote separating mechanism without causing the batch banknote separating mechanism to be fed out from the batch storage box at the time of loading / replenishing to the discrimination section. Of the banknotes that have been conveyed, and among the banknotes that have been fed to the discrimination unit by being fed out from each of the denomination-type storages during the withdrawal transaction, only the banknotes that have been discriminated to be on the back side by the discrimination unit, The backside banknote collection control means is provided to control so that the banknotes are conveyed to the batch storage box and collected on the partition plate in the state of the backside to be collected.

[0021]

According to the above-described structure, when the bills are loaded and replenished in the denomination-based storage, when the bills are separated and fed from the batch storage, the bills are transported to the discriminating section through the transport path. When the discrimination unit discriminates the denomination, authenticity, damage, etc. and detects the front and back sides, and it is detected that it is the back side, this detection signal is sent to the control unit, and the control unit detects the back side. The side banknote collection control means controls the switching blade and the stacking means in the batch storage box to collect and stack the backside banknotes again in the batch storage box. As a result, the loaded / replenished bills detected as the back side are again collected in the collective storage.

Since the transport path has a structure in which the banknotes are reversed until it reaches the discriminating section, the banknotes that are collected again in the batch storage are collected on the back side and stored in the batch storage. The front and back of the bill will be sorted. Further, at the time of withdrawal transaction, when a bill is paid out from each denomination-type storage according to the amount of withdrawal instructed by the customer and conveyed to the discrimination section, the discrimination section has the same denomination as at the time of loading and replenishment. The front and back sides are detected together with the discrimination of authenticity, genuineness, and damage.
Then, when the back side is discriminated here, the back side bill collection control means also stores the bills in the collective storage, and the bills to be conveyed to the customer service section are only the bills discriminated from the front side. , Pay the customer with the front and back aligned.

[0023]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a side sectional view showing an operation at the time of a withdrawal transaction in the banknote processing apparatus of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a flowchart of a collecting operation at the time of a withdrawal transaction of FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is a banknote processing apparatus also shown in FIG. It is an appearance perspective view showing an automatic teller machine equipped with.

First, a schematic structure of an automatic transaction device equipped with a bill depositing / withdrawing device will be described with reference to FIG.
21 is an automated teller machine, 22 is a banknote processing device (hereinafter C
It is called CAD). Reference numeral 23 is a card reader / writer section for identifying a card inserted by a customer and writing transaction details, 24 is a passbook entry machine section for performing processing such as identification of a passbook inserted by a customer, printing transaction content, and the like. A customer operation unit including an operation key for inputting the deposit / payment amount and a personal identification number, and a display unit for displaying the amount and operation guidance illustrations and characters, and 26 is for a staff member to perform processing such as loading, replenishment, and collection. Therefore, the internal operation unit includes an operation key for inputting items and data corresponding to each transaction, an input data from the operation key and a processing result, and a display unit for guiding a clerk operation.

Reference numeral 27 denotes a control section for controlling the operation of each of the above-mentioned devices and various arithmetic processing. Further, the control section 27 will be described later in detail, but it is discriminated at the time of loading / collecting and dispensing operation. The backside banknote collection control means 27a for controlling the collection of only the banknotes detected as the backside by the unit 2 into the batch storage 9 is provided. Next, the control system of the CCAD 22 of this embodiment in the above-described automatic transaction device will be shown using the block diagram of FIG.

The CCAD 22 is controlled by the control unit 27 shown in FIG. 4 by a control signal or the like input to the CCAD control unit 80 via the host device control unit interface 81. The CCAD control unit 80 includes a microcomputer for controlling the operation of the entire CCAD 22 and its peripheral circuits, and an I / O interface circuit 82 and a batch storage interface circuit 90 via a bus line.
, A read only memory (ROM) 83, and a random access memory (RAM) 84 are connected.

The ROM 83 is a memory for storing the operation program of the CCAD control unit 80, and the RAM 84 is
This is a memory for temporarily storing parameters and the like required for the operation of the CCAD control unit 80. The I / O interface circuit 82 includes a motor driver 85 and a magnet driver 8
6, a switch reading circuit 87, a photo sensor reading circuit 88, and a bill discrimination control unit 89 are connected to each other.

The motor driver 85 is connected to a motor group 91 of each part of the apparatus and a motor group provided in the collective cassette 9, and a circuit for driving and controlling various motors according to each operation mode, the magnet driver 86 is the apparatus. It is connected to the magnet group 92 of each part, and depending on the operation mode,
It is a circuit that turns each magnet on or off.

The switch reading circuit 87 is connected to the switch group 93 of each part of the apparatus and the switch group 97 of the collective cassette 9, and determines whether or not the collective cassette, the denomination cassette and the reject safe are mounted and the position of each stage. It is a circuit that reads the state of a switch or the like for detection. The photo sensor reading circuit 88 is connected to the photo sensor group 94 of each part of the apparatus and the photo sensor group 98 provided in the batch cassette 9, and is provided in the batch cassette 9, the denomination cassettes 3 to 5 or the reject cassette 10. It is a circuit that reads information from a photo sensor group that monitors the stacking state of banknotes.

The bill discriminating control unit 89 includes a bill discriminating sensor group 9
5 and the banknote discrimination sensor group 95 is C
The authenticity of the bill sent to the discriminating unit 2 is constituted by various sensors provided inside the discriminating unit 2 provided in the CAD 22. Denomination. Damage, front and back. This is a circuit provided for differentially detecting double feeding, skew feeding, and the like. The batch cassette interface circuit 90 reads the storage content of the storage management memory 99 provided in the batch cassette 9 and transfers it to the CCAD control unit 80, or receives an instruction from the CCAD control unit 80 to receive the storage management memory 99. Is a circuit for updating the contents of. In addition,
In this storage management memory 99, the number of stored banknotes stored in the batch cassette 9 for each denomination is individually stored.

Further, the CCAD control section 80 is provided with a counting management section 80a, a cash collecting means 80b, and a cash distributing means 80c for controlling various apparatus processing operations, and these means are all predetermined. It is composed of a sequence program for controlling the circuit of each part of the apparatus through the I / O interface circuit 82 in a procedure, and executing and controlling the depositing / withdrawing operation described later.

The counting management unit 80a includes the batch cassette 9
The banknotes that are collected or distributed from the batch cassette 9 are counted, and the storage management memory 99 is updated each time. The cash collecting means 80b controls the operation of taking out and carrying the cash stored in each denomination-type cassette and collecting it in the collective cassette 9. Also, the cash distribution means 80
If there is a shortage of banknotes in each of the denomination cassettes, the c confirms the number of denominations stored in the storage management memory 99 and distributes and replenishes the required banknotes to each denomination cassette within the range. Control movements.

Next, CCAD2 having the above-mentioned control system
The general distribution operation at the time of loading / replenishing bills in 2 will be described. First, the basic structure and operation of the CCAD in the present invention will be shown with reference to FIGS. 5 and 6, and thereafter, more specific operation of the device of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 5 is a block diagram of a main part of the CCAD 22 in the present embodiment. In the figure, the CCAD 22 main body is equipped with a batch cassette 9 that collectively stores a plurality of denominations, and bills are discriminated therein. Part 2, in addition to the first denomination cassette 3 and the second denomination cassette 4, these first
Each of the second denomination cassettes 3 and 4 is provided with temporary holding units 28 and 29 for temporarily accumulating the stored bills and shutters 30 and 31, respectively.

In FIG. 5, the denomination cassettes 3 and 4 store bills of the same denomination, and the other denomination storage boxes are omitted. As shown in the explanation of the control system, the batch cassette 9 is provided with a storage management memory 99 for counting and managing the bills stored in the batch cassette 9, and the contents of this memory. Is provided, or in order to manage the distribution and replenishment of banknotes by using the data, a counting management unit 80a, a cash collecting means 80b, and a cash distributing means 80c are provided.

When the banknotes are loaded with the above-mentioned structure, first, when the banknotes are started to be fed from the batch cassette 9 toward the transport path 11 by the control of the cash distributing means 80c, the banknotes are discriminated by the discrimination section 2. , It is determined that the bill is a bill of a denomination to be stored in the first denomination-based storage 3 and the second denomination-based storage 4, or the route of the first or second denomination-based storage It is conveyed toward 3 and 4. The other banknotes are collected in the batch cassette 9 through the route. The selection of these routes is performed by the batch dividing gates 32 and 33.

The amount of cash accumulated in the first temporary holding unit 28 and the second temporary holding unit 29 is monitored by a detector (not shown), and the accumulated amount is a fixed amount, for example, about 100 sheets. Is reached, the flag 80d including the first full detection flag or the second full detection flag is turned on. FIG. 6 is a time chart of the above-mentioned general supplemental distribution operation. As shown in this time chart, when the supplemental distribution operation is started, banknotes of the corresponding denomination are first accumulated in, for example, the first temporary holding unit 28. In this stacking operation, as described above, the banknotes are conveyed through the route shown in FIG.
It is executed by 2 or less.

At time t2, the temporary holding full detection is performed, the cash distributing means 80c recognizes this, and operates the collective separating gate 33, and this time the second temporary holding unit 2
The operation of accumulating banknotes of the denomination corresponding to 9 is continued. On the other hand, at the time t2, the shutter 30 is opened in the first temporary holding unit 28 where the stacking operation is completed,
The banknotes accumulated in the first temporary holding section 28 are stored in the denomination-based cassette 3. This operation ends at time t3, but thereafter, from time t2, the second temporary holding unit 2
Wait until the number of bills conveyed toward 9 reaches a certain amount.

At time t4, the second temporary holding section 29
When a predetermined amount of banknotes are accumulated on the second temporary holding section 29 at time t4 and the full detection of the second temporary holding section 29 is performed, the cash distributing means 80c operates the collective separating gate 33 again, and the storing is completed first, and the empty storage is completed. The accumulation of the banknotes of the corresponding denomination is continued in the first temporary holding unit 28 which has become. This accumulation operation is executed from time t4 to time t6.

The banknotes accumulated in the second temporary holding section 29 are in the same manner as described above between the time t4 and the time t5 in accordance with the opening of the shutter 30 and the second money type cassette 4 Is stored in. As described above, if the first denomination cassette 3 and the second denomination cassette 4 are for storing bills of the same denomination, the bills are alternately conveyed to the respective temporary holding units 28 and 29. As a result, the stacking operation is continuously executed so that a large amount of bills can be distributed and replenished in a short time.

Next, the overall structure and operation of the CCAD of the present invention having the above basic structure and operation will be described with reference to FIGS. 7 and 10 in addition to FIGS.
7 is a side sectional view of the CCAD showing the operation at the time of loading / replenishing operation, FIG. 8 is a flowchart of the collecting operation at the time of loading / replenishing operation, FIG. 9 is a side sectional view of the CCAD showing the operation at the time of deposit transaction, FIG. [Fig. 7] is an operation explanatory view of the batch cassette.

First, the overall construction of the apparatus will be described with reference to the side sectional view showing the operation during the withdrawal transaction of FIG. 1 is CCAD
The customer service section 1 is provided on the front upper part of 22. The customer service section 1 is a banknote insertion section 34 for the customer to insert banknotes 16 and a payment accumulation section 35 for accumulating payment banknotes at the time of withdrawal and reject banknotes at the time of payment. It has a structure in which the and are separated by a bill guide 36.

Reference numeral 37 denotes an openable / closable shutter provided on the upper part of the customer service section 1. The shutter 37 is opened when a customer inserts a deposit banknote, and when inserted, a sensor (not shown) detects this. The shutter 37 is closed, and after that, the banknote deposit transaction is started. Further, the shutter 37 has a structure that is opened when a customer receives a bill to be returned at the time of depositing or bills to be paid at the time of dispensing, and is closed when the receipt is detected.

The customer service section 1 is also provided with a separating mechanism 38 for separating the deposited banknotes one by one, and a stacking mechanism 39 for collecting banknotes to be returned or paid to the customer. Reference numeral 2 is a discrimination section disposed diagonally below and in the rear of the customer service section 1 for detecting denomination, authenticity, damage, front and back, double feeding, and skew of bills sent in and front and back. It is like this. Then, the control unit 27 determines that the bill sent according to the detection result of the discrimination unit 2 is on the back side.
If the operation being executed is during loading / replenishing from the batch cassette 9 or during withdrawal transaction, the back side banknote collection control means 27a causes the CCAD to be performed.
The controller 80 is instructed to start the collection operation. As a result, the CCAD control unit 80 operates each of the mechanical units shown in the block diagram of FIG. 4, switches the traveling path by a switching blade described later, and collects the back-side banknotes in the batch cassette 9. Note that the collecting operation by the back-side banknote collection control means 27a will be described in more detail later, but the banknotes judged to be on the backside are taken into the collective cassette 9 again without being directly applied to the customer. As a result, the banknotes can be collected in the batch cassette 9 in the state of the back side, and the front and back of the payment banknote at the time of withdrawal can be arranged without disposing the front and back reversing unit in front of the customer service section 1. There is.

Reference numeral 9 denotes a batch cassette for collectively storing bills of a plurality of denominations, and 10 denotes a reject storage box arranged at the bottom of the batch cassette 9. In the discrimination section 2, a false note, a damaged note, or a genuine note. However, reject banknotes that have been discriminated from reject banknotes such as banknotes that are not suitable for withdrawal are stored. Here, the structure of the collective cassette 9 will be described.
Reference numeral 0 denotes a collective banknote storage unit which is above the collective cassette 9 and collectively stores a plurality of kinds of banknotes, 41 denotes a stage for collectively accumulating these banknotes, and 42 denotes a partition plate for accumulating collected banknotes.

The stage 41 is moved to each position (not shown) so as to pay out bills and deposit them through the partition plate 42. 43 is the partition plate 4
A clamp lever for clamping the collected banknotes accumulated on 2 from both sides and accumulating them on the stage 41. The clamp lever is rotatably and vertically movable so as to move to each position (not shown) similar to the stage 41. There is.

Reference numeral 44 is a built-in unit installed at the upper end of the batch cassette 9, and a batch banknote separating mechanism for separating the banknotes accumulated on the stage 41 one by one from the uppermost layer at the time of banknote loading and banknote replenishment, and 45 at the time of loading and replenishment processing. Of the bills separated by the collective bill separating mechanism 44 and fed out from the feeding port 9a formed at the upper end of the cassette, the replenishment reject bills that the discrimination unit 2 discriminates as double-feeding or skew feeding are taken in and stored at the lower end of the cassette. First reject storage section 4
Reference numeral 6 denotes a first reject banknote stacking unit that sends reject banknotes to the first reject storage unit 45. Also,
Reference numeral 9b denotes a back side banknote, which will be described later, and a collection port for collecting the collected banknotes at the end of business into a cassette, and 9c is a collective banknote stacking unit for stacking the collected banknotes on the partition plate 42.

Reference numerals 47 and 48 denote second and third reject storage units provided in the reject storage unit 10 provided below the batch cassette 9, and the second reject storage unit 47 receives or deposits money. The banknote that the customer has forgotten to take during the withdrawal transaction, and the third reject storage unit 48 can be deposited during the deposit process but is not suitable for dispensing, or the discriminating unit 2 determines or Rejected banknotes that have been determined to be unable to be dispensed during processing are stored.

Reference numerals 49 and 50 denote banknote stacking units for sending and stacking the reject banknotes to the second and third reject storage units 47 and 48, respectively. Further, a plurality of detectors are provided in the batch cassette 9, for example, a near full detector and a full detector for detecting the amount of banknotes accumulated on the stage 41, an end detector, and the like. The storage 10 is also equipped with a full detector and the like.

In the collective cassette 9, the stage 41 moves to the lower side of the clamp lever 43, the clamp lever 43 opens to the left and right, and the banknotes accumulated on the partition plate 42 are placed on the stage 41 and raised again. Such an operation is performed, and this operation is described in FIG.
It will be described later using 0. The batch cassette 9 also contains a position sensor for detecting the operation of the stage 41 and the clamp lever 43 at each set position, and a drive motor for driving them.

Next, 3, 4 and 5 are denomination-type cassettes for accumulating and storing bills for withdrawal arranged in the lower part of the apparatus. Here, 3 is a 1,000-yen bill cassette, and 4 and 5 are 10,000-yen bills. It is a cassette. 50, 51 and 52 are cassettes 3 of the denomination
It is a stage for accumulating bills provided in 4, 5 and is moved up and down by a moving means (not shown).

Then, these denomination-based cassettes 3, 4, 5
The deposit / withdrawal unit 6 is disposed on the upper part of the. The deposit / withdrawal unit 6 is a temporary stacking unit 54, 55, 56 for stacking the banknotes to be taken into the cassettes 3, 4, 5 according to the denomination,
Temporary holding plates 57, 58, 59 for temporarily holding the taken-in banknotes by denomination before storing, and the stages 51, 52, 53
And banknote separating mechanisms 60, 61 and 62 for separating and taking out the banknotes on the temporary storage plates 57, 58 and 59 from the uppermost part.

The temporary holding plates 57, 58, 59 can be retracted by a motor (not shown), and when it is detected that a predetermined amount has been accumulated, the temporary storage plates 57, 58, 59 are ejected from the denomination cassettes 3-5. The banknotes accumulated by retracting are dropped and stored in the denomination cassettes 3 to 5. 63
a, 64a and 65a are full detectors of the above-mentioned denomination cassettes 3, 4 and 5, 63b, 64b and 65b are near full detectors, and 63c, 64c and 65c are end detectors. It is an optical detector composed of light emitting and receiving elements, and serves as a means for managing the amount of bills in each cassette.

Reference numeral 11 denotes a transport path for transporting banknotes, and the transport path 11 has a structure in which the banknotes handled in the CCAD 22 are branched into many parts so as to be transported between the respective components. Only in the transport path 11 (see FIG. 7) between the feeding port of the batch cassette 9 and the discrimination section 2, the banknotes fed from the batch set 9 are inverted once. Therefore, from the discriminating section 2 to the collecting port of the batch cassette 9, the customers 3
Up to 5, banknotes are not inverted and conveyed on the conveyance path 11 between the discrimination section 2 and the customer service opening 1.

Reference characters B to J are switching blades provided at the branching portion of the transport path 11, and switch the transport direction of the bills. Further, a door is attached to the rear surface of the CCAD22, and by opening the door, the batch cassette 9 can be pulled out without pulling out the CCAD22 from the inside of the automated teller machine. The cassettes 3, 4 and 5 of each denomination arranged on the bottom surface of the CCAD 22 can be stored without extracting them.

Next, the operation of storing the banknotes for withdrawal into each of the denomination cassettes 3, 4, and 5 of the CCAD 22 having the above-described structure will be described in connection with the loading operation at the start of work and when a banknote shortage occurs during operation. The replenishment operation will be described with reference to FIG. The replenishment operation is basically the same as the loading operation. During operation, the amount of banknotes stored in the denomination cassettes 3 to 5 is detected by each of the end detectors 63c, 64c, 65c, and the replenishment request is determined. Further, when it is confirmed that the replenishment banknotes are stored in the batch cassette 9 based on the data of the storage management memory 99, the operation starts.

<Loading / Operation> FIG. 7 is a schematic side view of the CCAD showing the loading and replenishing operations of this embodiment. The operation will be described with reference to the flow chart of the recovery operation generated during the loading / operation in FIG. .. First, the loading operation is such that, before the start of work, the bank clerk stores the banknotes that have been collectively set on the stage 41 of the batch cassette 9 and then presses the loading key with the operation key of the internal operation unit 26.
The CCAD 22 receives an instruction to start the loading operation from the control unit 27, switches the internal state to the loading / replenishing mode, and starts the loading operation.

In addition, the replenishment operation is performed in the same manner as the internal operation unit 2
When the replenishment key is pressed by 6, the control unit 27 receives an instruction to start the replenishment operation, switches the internal state to the same loading / replenishment mode as in the loading operation, and starts the replenishment operation.
As described above, the replenishment operation first checks whether or not the banknotes to be replenished in the batch banknote storage unit 40 are set in advance, and if they are not set, the operation becomes impossible and is set. The operation is started only after the confirmation is made.

The loading / replenishing operation is first performed by the CCAD control unit 8
0 is the I / O interface circuit 82 is the motor driver 8
The banknote separating mechanism 44 in the batch cassette 9 is actuated via 5 to thereby pay out the banknotes 16 set on the stage 41 one by one from the uppermost layer (SA.
1). The fed-out banknotes pass through the transport path 11 (A), (B), (C).
It is conveyed to the discrimination section 2 along the route (d) (SA2),
The discrimination unit 2 discriminates the denomination, authenticity, damage, double feed, etc. of the bill (SA3).

If it is determined that the bill is normal, then the front and back of the bill are detected (SA4). SA4
In, in the case where it is detected that it is the front side, the denomination is discriminated next, and the denomination cassettes 3 to 5 are respectively selected according to each denomination.
The bill storing operation is performed (SA5 to SA9). That is,
When the discriminating unit 2 discriminates that a 1,000-yen bill, for example, can be dispensed and the front and back sides are the front side, the discriminating unit 2 determines
The routes of (e), (f), and (ki) are traced to the inside of the deposit / withdrawal unit 6, and the route of (h) is traced in the deposit / withdrawal unit 6, and the switching blade H is actuated. It is sent to the temporary stacking unit 54 above the yen cassette 3 and stacked on the money type temporary holding plate 57.

In the same manner, if the withdrawal is possible with a genuine 10,000-yen note and it is discriminated that it is on the front side, the discrimination section 2 outputs (e), (f),
Following the route of (g), the changeover blades I or J in the deposit / withdrawal unit 6 are operated to send it to the temporary stacking section 55 or 56, and sequentially stack it on the temporary holding plates 58, 59. Further, in the SA4, when the bill discriminator 2 detects that the bill 16 is on the back surface side rather than the front surface side, the above-described accumulation operation in the denomination cassettes 3 to 5 is not performed, and the collective cassette 9 is again performed. The collecting operation to take in is performed (SA10).

That is, when the discriminating unit 2 detects that the bill 16 is on the back side, this detection signal is transmitted to the control unit 27 via the CCAD control unit 80, and the control unit 27 performs the bill collecting operation. The judgment is made, and the back side bill collection control means 27a instructs the CCAD control section 80 to start the collection operation. As a result, the CCAD control unit 80 first operates the switching blade E to guide the back-side banknote to the route of (K), and the partitioning plate 42 in the cassette is collected from the collecting port 9b provided at the bottom of the batch cassette 9 by the batch stacking unit 9c. Collect and store on top (SA11).

This is because if the bills discriminated from the back side in the discriminating section 2 are stored in the denomination cassettes 3 to 5 in the same manner as the bills discriminated from the front side, the denomination cassettes 3 to 5 are stored. This is because a large number of banknotes will be stored in a state where the front and back sides are mixed, that is, when the withdrawal process is performed with the front and back sides being mixed, the money type cassettes 3 to 5 Is to prevent the bills from being fed out in a state where the front and back sides are mixed.

Further, as will be described later, the bill dispensed from each of the denomination-type cassettes 3 to 5 at the time of the dispensing transaction is detected by the discriminating section 2 to be the front and back sides. The operation is not carried to the customer service section 1 as it is, but is collected in the batch cassette 9 similarly to the time of loading / replenishing. However, at the time of this withdrawal, if many banknotes are identified as being on the back side and are collected in the batch cassette 9, the banknotes in the denomination-type cassettes 3 to 5 require a replenishment operation in a short time. Therefore, the front and back sides are arranged as much as possible when loading and replenishing.

At the time of replenishment / loading, when the bills fed from the batch cassette 9 enter the route of the discrimination unit 2 of (d) from the route of (c) until it reaches the discrimination unit 2. Since the structure of the transport path 11 described above allows the paper money to be inverted only once, the banknote detected as the back side by the discrimination unit 2 is inverted from the state stored in the batch cassette 9. In the state, it is again taken into the batch cassette 9. That is, the banknotes 16 before the start of loading in the batch cassette 9 are accumulated and stored in the state of the back side, and when they are paid out, they are stored in the state of the front side in the denomination-type cassettes 3 to 5. There is.

Therefore, at the time of loading / replenishing, all the banknotes 16 detected as the back side can be loaded into the batch cassette 9 again, so that the front and back of the banknotes stored in the denomination-type cassettes 3 to 5 can be sorted. become. When the number of banknotes 16 collected and accumulated on the partition plate 42 of the batch cassette 9 reaches the stacking allowable value, for example, 100, the operation of the batch banknote separating mechanism 44 is interrupted and the clamp lever 43 in the batch cassette 9 is stopped. Perform the clamp operation by. The clamp operation will be described in detail later in <Operation of batch cassette>.

Further, for the banknotes judged to be unfit banknotes or non-refundable banknotes (for example, 5,000 yen bills, five hundred yen bills, etc.) in the discrimination result of the discrimination section 2 described above, the switching blade F is switched to ( The route (c) is followed to send it to the first reject banknote stacking section 46 of the batch storage 9, and store it in the first reject storage section 45. On the other hand, the temporary holding plates 57 and 5
When the respective banknotes stacked on 8, 59 reach a preset holding amount set in advance, for example, 100, the temporary holding plates 57, 58, 59 are retracted by a driving means (not shown) and stacked. The withdrawable bills are dropped and stored on the stages 51, 52, 53 in the respective denomination cassettes 3, 4, 5. After that, each stage 51, 52, 53 is lowered by a motor (not shown) by a thickness corresponding to the holding allowable value. As a result, the temporary holding plates 57, 58, 59 are again provided.
And the batch banknote separating mechanism 44 of the batch cassette 9 is operated to repeat the loading / replenishing operation.

For example, when 1,000-yen bills are loaded in the denomination cassette 3 prior to the start of work, the denomination is kept until the full detector 63a fully detects the bills or all the bills in the batch cassette 9 are exhausted. This operation is repeated until a predetermined proper number of 1,000-yen tickets are stored in the cassette 3. Similarly, when storing 10,000-yen notes in the denomination-based cassettes 4 and 5, loading and replenishment are continued until the appropriate number is reached.

The appropriate number of sheets is set to an appropriate number, for example, after the bills are loaded and replenished, leaving a space for storing the deposited bills in the deposit transaction. At this time, the management of the amount of banknotes stored in each of the denomination cassettes 3, 4, and 5 is controlled by the full detectors 63a, 64a, 65a and the end detectors provided in the denomination cassettes 3, 4, and 5. By detecting the number of times a predetermined amount of banknotes have been dropped into the cassette and the stacking amount by the optical sensors such as the containers 63c, 64c, and 65c, the CCAD
The counting is performed by the counting management unit 80a of the control unit 80.
Then, this data is stored in the storage management memory 9 via the batch storage interface circuit 90 shown in the block diagram of FIG.
Store it in 9.

By performing the loading / replenishing operation in this way,
The banknotes stored in each of the denomination cassettes 3 to 5 in the state before the operation of the CCAD 22 is all aligned in the state of the front side, and a sufficient amount of banknotes capable of dealing with withdrawal are loaded and replenished, This enables deposit transactions as well as deposit transactions. Next, a deposit transaction operation in the automatic transaction device loaded and replenished with banknotes will be described based on a side sectional view of the CCAD for explaining the deposit transaction operation in FIG.

<Deposit operation> When a customer or the like operates a customer operation unit 5 provided on the front surface of the apparatus to instruct a deposit transaction, the CCAD 22 determines the internal state based on this instruction and enters a deposit mode based on the instruction. And the like, and waits for the customer to insert a bill into the bill insertion unit 34 of the customer service unit 1.

When a sensor (not shown) provided in the bill insertion portion 34 detects the insertion of a bill, the shutter 37 is closed, the separating mechanism 38 is driven to take in the inserted bill, and the inserted bill 1
The sheets are separated one by one and taken into the conveyance path 11. This banknote 16
Is sent to the discriminating section 2 through the routes of arrows (a), (a), and (c), and the bills conveyed in the discriminating section 2 are sequentially checked for denomination, authenticity, damage, and running state. Detect and send to the back. The rejected bills that have been determined to be counterfeit or abnormally conveyed by the discriminating unit 2 follow the routes indicated by arrows (d) and (e) and are directly sent to the payment accumulation unit 35 of the customer service unit 1 to be accumulated one by one. , Returned to the customer. At this time, the front and back collecting operation is not performed.

On the other hand, in the discriminating section 2, the bill discriminated as a genuine bill or an unfit bill (non-refundable bill) is operated by the switching blade C to convey the conveying path 11 along the route indicated by the arrow (F). At this time, if the banknote is a genuine 1,000-yen note, it is conveyed toward the deposit / withdrawal unit 6 as indicated by the arrow (K) route, and the 1,000-yen ticket switching blade H is operated to activate the 1,000-yen note. Sent to the temporary stacking unit 54 of the
Collected in 7.

Similarly, in the case of genuine 10,000-yen bills, they are stacked on the temporary holding plate 58 via the temporary stacking unit 55 by the operation of the switching blade I. Also, the 5,000 yen bill and the unfit bill are sent to the temporary stacking unit 56 by operating the switching blade J, and stacked on the temporary holding plate 59. When the deposit counting of the bills inserted by the customer into the customer service section 1 is completed by the above operation, the control section 27 calculates the denomination-based amount and the total amount,
It is displayed on the display of the customer operation unit 25. When the customer sees this display and confirms the displayed amount and presses the confirmation button of the customer operation unit 25, the CCAD 22 collects the deposited banknotes accumulated on the temporary holding plates 57 and 58 of the respective denomination cassettes 3 and 4, By retracting the temporary holding plates 57, 58, the temporary holding plates 57, 58 are stored in the respective denomination cassettes 3 and 4.

Next, the temporary holding plate 59 of the denomination type cassette 5
The 5,000-yen banknotes and the unfit banknotes accumulated in 1 are separated one by one by the banknote separating mechanism 62, and the conveyance path 11 is sent to the discrimination section 2. Then, by operating the switching blades C and G, the arrow
Carry along the routes of (K) and (K), and reject storage 1
It is sent to the third reject banknote stacking unit 50 on the lower side of 0 and stacked in the third reject storage unit 48.

Then, the counting result is sent to the storage management memory 99, and when the memory is updated, the deposit transaction processing is completed. Since the operation of reversing the front and back to be collected in the batch cassette 9 is not performed at the time of storing the banknotes in the deposit transaction, the banknotes are stored in the money-type cassettes 3 to 5 as they are on the back side. <Withdrawal Transaction> Next, CCAD showing the operation at the time of withdrawal in FIG.
The operation during the withdrawal transaction and the withdrawal operation when the back side banknote is detected during the withdrawal transaction will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

When the customer presses the withdrawal transaction key of the customer operation unit 25, the cash card is inserted into the card reader / writer unit 23, and the personal identification number is input, the automatic transaction device is switched to the withdrawal mode and released. Wait for instructions on the denomination and number of bills to be used. For example, when the customer inputs the amount of money of m ten thousand yen tickets and n thousand yen tickets n, first, after confirming that each of the denomination cassettes 3 to 5 is not detected, follow the instruction of the withdrawal count. For example, the bill separating mechanism 61 for 10,000-yen bills of the deposit / withdrawal unit 6 is operated to deliver m 10,000-yen bills (SB1).

The bills fed out are sent to the discrimination section 2 through the routes indicated by arrows (a), (a) and (c) (SB2). The discriminating unit 2 first discriminates authenticity (SB3), and then determines whether the banknote that has been discriminated as a genuine note is a banknote of a denomination as specified (SB4), and a denomination as specified. If it is classified by prefecture, the front and back are further detected (SB5).

Then, for the bills which are genuine bills and have the denomination and which are discriminated from the front side, the switching blade C is actuated to move the bills 16 along the route of the arrows (d) and (e). 1
The payment is sequentially sent to the payment accumulation unit 35 and accumulated by the accumulation mechanism 39 (SB6). In addition, when it is determined that the bill is a counterfeit bill in S3, and when it is determined that the bill is not the corresponding denomination in 4, the reject storage 1
It is taken into 0 (SB7).

In S5, when the bills sent from the denomination-type cassettes 3 to 5 are detected to be on the back side, the bills are collected on the front and back sides and paid to the customer. Similar to the time, the collection operation to the collective cassette 9 is performed. That is, when the discrimination result of the rear surface side in the discrimination unit 2 is transmitted to the control unit 27, the control unit 27 operates the switching blades C and E via the back surface side banknote collection control means 27a, and the discrimination unit 2 The back-side banknotes sent out from are conveyed by the route of arrows (f) and (h) (S
B8), a collection port 9b provided at the bottom of the batch cassette 9
The bills are sent to and the back side banknotes are stacked on the partition plate 42 by the stacking means 9c provided inside the collecting port 9b (SB9).

By this collecting operation, each denomination cassette 3
The banknotes 16 fed out from 5 to 5 are the money type cassettes 3
It is taken into the batch cassette 9 without being inverted as it is in the state of being rolled from 5 to 5. That is, the banknotes stored in each of the denomination-based cassettes 3 to 5 are accumulated on the front surface side, and are fed out as they are on the front surface side, so that the banknotes are aligned on the front surface side to the customer service section 1 due to the configuration of the transport path 11 described above. Send out.

On the other hand, the collective cassette 9 is integrated in the state of being aligned on the back surface side as described above. This is because the banknotes 16 are inverted once by the transport path 11 when the banknotes 16 are transported from the batch cassette 9 to the discriminating unit 2 at the time of loading / replenishing. Therefore, the banknotes that have been discriminated to be on the back side by the discriminating unit 2 at the time of withdrawal will be in a normal storage state if they are collected in the batch cassette 9 as they are on the back side. Since it is reversed to 2 and conveyed as the front side, it is judged to be the front side and can be normally distributed and stored in each of the denomination cassettes 3, 4, and 5.

The back-side banknotes dispensed during the withdrawal transaction are stored in the respective money type cassettes 3, 4, and 5 as the recycle target banknotes during the withdrawal transaction.
This is a very small amount with respect to the total number of banknotes stored in the batch cassette 9 by the loading / replenishing operation in each denomination cassette 3, 4, 5 and this collecting operation inadvertently increases the number of replenishing operations. Not a thing.

The processing of the back-side banknotes after being conveyed into the batch cassette 9 will be described in detail in the section of the next batch cassette operation. In addition, when it is detected that the bills accumulated in the payment accumulation unit 35 of the customer service unit 1 that are discriminated from the front side are aligned according to the amount designated by the customer, the shutter 37 is opened and the bill 16 is transferred to the customer. The rear shutter 37 is closed. The data of the denomination and the number of denominations at this time are stored in the storage management memory 99 by the control unit 27, whereby the withdrawal transaction processing is completed.

If the customer forgets to pick up the bill 16 in the customer service section 1, the bill 16 is again separated by the separating mechanism 38 and taken into the inside of the apparatus, and is passed through the discriminating section 2 by the route of arrow (c). The sheets are fed one by one, the switching blades C and G are operated, and this time, the sheets are sent to the second reject banknote stacking section 49, and the second reject storage section 47.
Accumulate in.

<Operation of Collective Cassette> Here, the operation of the collective cassette 9 during the loading / replenishing operation and the withdrawal transaction will be described with reference to the operation explanatory view of the collective cassette in FIG. First, during the loading / replenishing operation, the banknotes 16 on the stage 41 are separated one by one by the collective banknote separating mechanism 44 as shown in FIG.

On the other hand, the banknotes that are collected without being stored in the denomination-type cassettes 3 to 5 are sent to the batch cassette 9 and accumulated on the partition plate 42. Here, the bills are allowed to accumulate,
For example, when the number of bills reaches 100, the operation of the collective bill separating mechanism 44 is temporarily stopped. The clamp lever 43 is shown in FIG.
The position is preset to the position 43 in (b), and when an instruction to the effect that the stacking allowable value is reached is received, rotation operation is performed to the position 43 in the drawing to clamp the banknotes 16 stacked on the partition plate 42. To do. Then, a motor (not shown) is driven to lift the clamp lever 43 from the position 43 in the drawing to the position 43. Next, the batch bill separating mechanism 44 that has been stopped first is operated, and the bills are continuously accumulated on the partition plate 42 up to the accumulation allowable value.

When the stacking allowable value is reached again, the collective bill separating mechanism 44 is stopped, the clamp lever 43 is rotated from the position 43 to the position 43, and the bills lifted by the clamp lever 43 are stacked on the partition plate 42. Drop it on the banknote. Then, again by a motor (not shown), the clamp lever 43 at the position 43 is placed.
Is lowered and moved to the position of 43. After that, the clamp lever 43 is rotated again to the position 43, and the bill 16 is lifted to the position 43.

This operation is repeated until the end detector in the batch cassette 9 detects that the banknotes on the stage 41 are exhausted. When the end is detected, the batch banknote separating mechanism 44 is stopped and the clamp lever 43 is operated. Lifts the bill up to position 43 by a motor (not shown). On the other hand, the stage 41 is rotatably driven from a position 41 to a position 41 by a motor (not shown) and further rotatably driven to a position 41,
It is arranged below the clamp lever 43. After that, the clamp lever 43 rotates to the position, and the bill 16 that was previously clamped and lifted is placed on the stage 41. After that, the stage 41 is driven by a motor (not shown) and moves up to the position of 41.

As a result, the bills 16 that have been collected by being identified as the back side can be distributed from the batch cassette 9 again at the time of loading / replenishing and at the time of dispensing transaction. It should be noted that the bills 1 during operation in the batch cassette 9 described above
The front and back of 6 are not reversed, and the operation is always performed with the back side kept. The banknotes collected in the batch cassette 9 at the time of loading / replenishment and withdrawal transactions are collected in the state of the back surface side. Therefore, when the collected banknotes are fed out from the batch cassette 9, the discrimination unit 2 detects Will be sent in, and will be stored in each of the denomination cassettes 3 to 5 on the front side, and at the time of withdrawal, the customer service section 1 will be in the front side.
You will be able to pay from.

Regarding the collecting operation in this apparatus, the operation for gathering the front and back sides is not performed, and therefore the description thereof is omitted here. Further, the detailed description of the counting of the bills during the collecting operation into the batch cassette 9 at the time of performing the reversal of the loading / replenishing and the withdrawal is omitted here, but the counting is performed by the control system shown in FIG. Needless to say.

[0091]

As described above, according to the present invention, when bills are loaded and replenished from the batch storage to the denomination-based storage, and when the banknotes are paid out from the denomination-based storage by a dispensing transaction, the discrimination is performed. When the banknote is discriminated by the unit as being on the back side, the backside banknote collection control means once collects it into the batch storage box, and the batch banknote moving means can separate and feed the inside of the batch storage box. By moving to another stage, it is possible to arrange the front and back of the banknotes stored in the denomination-based storage at the time of replenishment and loading, and the front and back of the payment banknotes at the time of withdrawal transaction.

For this reason, the bills stored in the denomination-type storage box at the time of loading / replenishing are collected again in the batch storage box only when they are discriminated to be the back side by the discrimination section. It is not stored in each money type storage in the state of the side, but it is stored in the state of the front side even at the time of withdrawal transaction. Since the operation is performed, all the bills to be paid to the customer can be dispensed in a state where they are arranged on the front surface side without providing the front and back collecting mechanism on the front side of the customer service section as in the conventional example.

Therefore, the front and back collecting mechanism is not required, and the space for providing the front and back reversing unit is not required, so that the apparatus can be downsized. In addition, in the conventional example, in addition to the front and back collecting mechanism, a temporary stacking unit that collects all the banknotes to be paid out after collecting the front and back is also provided, but according to the present invention, payment or return is performed. Since the banknotes are directly accumulated in the customer service section, there is no need to push the banknotes in a bundle from the temporary stacking section to the customer service section as in the past, so the banknotes curl during this operation. In this case, it is possible to prevent a machine jam or cause a failure by causing a paper jam or the like.

Further, since the front and back collecting operation in the front and back collecting mechanism, the temporary collecting operation, and the pushing operation from the temporary collecting section to the customer reception section are eliminated, the processing time at the time of deposit and withdrawal transaction can be shortened, and as a result, the apparatus It is possible to obtain a small-sized and excellent banknote handling apparatus having a high operating rate.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side sectional view showing an operation during a dispensing transaction in a banknote handling machine of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a collecting operation at the time of withdrawal transaction.

FIG. 3 is an external perspective view of an automatic gold transaction apparatus equipped with the banknote handling apparatus shown in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a control system of CCAD of the present embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram of an essential part of a CCAD 22 in this embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a time chart of a distribution operation at the time of loading / replenishing.

FIG. 7 is a side sectional view of the CCAD showing the operation at the time of loading / replenishing.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing a collecting operation at the time of loading / replenishing.

FIG. 9 is a side sectional view of the CCAD showing the operation at the time of deposit transaction.

FIG. 10 is an operation explanatory diagram of the batch cassette.

FIG. 11 is a schematic side view showing an internal schematic structure of a conventional banknote handling machine.

12 is a schematic side view showing the configuration and operation of the front / back reversing unit in FIG.

FIG. 13 is an explanatory diagram showing a conventional problem.

[Explanation of Codes] 1 Customer Service Department 2 Discrimination Department 3 Money Classification Cassette 4 Money Classification Cassette 5 Money Classification Cassette 6 Deposit / Withdrawal Unit 9 Batch Cassette 16 Banknote 27 Control Section 27a Back Side Banknote Collection Control Means 42 Partition Plate 43 Clamp Lever 44 Batch Banknote Separation mechanism

Claims (1)

[Claims] Claims: 1. A batch storage box that stores banknotes of a plurality of denominations in a batch and can be attached to and detached from the main body of the apparatus; and a plurality of denomination storage boxes that receive bills and replenish bills from the batch storage box. , A discriminating unit for discriminating banknotes fed from the batch storage to be stored in the coin-type storage, and reversing the bills from the batch storage to send them to the discriminating unit and withdrawing money in this discrimination unit A conveyance path for conveying the bills discriminated as to each of the denomination-based storages, a reject storage for storing reject banknotes determined to be inappropriate for dispensing by the discrimination unit, and a discrimination unit fed out from the collective storage And a deposit / withdrawal unit having a bill distribution / accumulation unit for distributing and accumulating the banknotes, which have been discriminated to be dispensable by the respective banknotes, into the respective coin-type storage boxes, and the banknotes in the batch storage box are stored in the batch storage box. Separate from the top one by one And a collective banknote separating mechanism that feeds it out, and a collective banknote that moves to a stage that can be separated by the collective banknote separating mechanism without reversing the banknotes collected from each of the denomination-based storages and accumulated on the partition plate. In the banknote handling apparatus including a moving means, banknotes that have been delivered from the batch storage box at the time of loading / replenishment and transported to the discrimination section, and that have been dispensed from the storage boxes of each denomination at the time of dispensing transactions. Among the banknotes that have been conveyed to the section, only the banknotes that have been discriminated to be the back side by this discriminating section are provided to the backside banknote collection control means for carrying them to the batch storage box and collecting them on the partition plate. A bill processing device characterized by the above.