CN101379531B - Coin receiving/dispensing machine - Google Patents

Abstract

A coin receiving/dispensing machine where an increased number of coins can be received. This is achieved by reducing that space above a passage which is required for coin conveyance, reducing the size of a machine body (11), and allocating the reduced space for a receiving/discharge section (27). An endless conveyance belt (72) is stretched over an identification path (22) and a classification path (23) by pulleys (71) horizontally rotatably supported by vertical shafts (71a). That space above the passage which is required to place the conveyance belt (72) is reduced, the machine body (11) is reduced in size, and the reduced space is allocated for receiving/discharge section (27). All of these contribute to increase the number of coins receivable in the machine.

Description

Coin depositing/dispensing machine

Technical field

The present invention relates to carry out the Coin depositing/dispensing machine of the receipts and expenditures of coin.

Background technology

In the past, in order to locate correctly and promptly to carry out the cash receipt and payment respectively with client at the cash register (register) in for example shop, the window of financial institution etc., developed such Coin depositing/dispensing machine: (Point Of Sells: point of sells) cashier's equipment such as cash register or electronic type cashier's machine and the coin supervisor of coming in and going out is electrically connected with POS for it, according to electric signal, can carry out the receipts and expenditures of cash automatically from these cashier's equipment outputs.

This Coin depositing/dispensing machine has the coin receiving port that can receive a plurality of coins simultaneously on body front surface top, disposes the conveying belt that coin is carried to the body depth direction in the bottom of this coin receiving port along the side of body.Be provided with coin passage with this conveying belt with being connected.This coin passage roughly is L font ground by identification passage and classification passage and constitutes, the coin that described identification passage will be carried by conveying belt is further to the conveyance of body depth direction, described classification passage is connected with this identification passage, and changes direction ground conveyance coin in position, body back to the body Width.In the classification passage, be provided with the classification hole of at par distinguishing of coin being classified according to face amount along this classification passage.

Above identification passage that constitutes coin passage and classification passage, has the first, second and third conveyance band that is used for the conveyance coin.The first conveyance band is suspended between first pulley and second pulley, and first pulley spindle is supported on the top of the conveying end of conveying belt, and second pulley spindle is supported on the pars intermedia of identification passage.The second conveyance band is suspended between second pulley and the 3rd pulley, and the 3rd pulley spindle is supported on the rear that is close to the bight at body back.The 3rd conveyance band is suspended between the 3rd pulley and the 4th pulley, and the 4th pulley spindle is supported on the terminal part of classification passage.These each pulleys come axle to support by the axle of horizontal direction, and each wheels arrangements state (for example, with reference to patent documentation 1) of becoming the bottom surface with respect to coin passage vertically to erect.

In addition, as the coin conveyed mode in the coin passage, the known band conveyance mode conveyance band, that have the conveyance projection that has use to have the conveyance projection.Have in the band conveyance mode of conveyance projection at this, armature is with respect to horizontal direction configuration obliquely at a predetermined angle, the coin passage on the initial distolateral top that is connected this armature is with the angle tilt identical with the inclination plectane, have the pulley that the conveyance band of conveyance projection rotates abreast by the coin conveyed face with this coin passage, and be provided with along the coin passage tensioning.And, store coin at armature with between the Qian Dou of the face side of this armature configuration, by armature and conveyance band are synchronously rotated, will be by the pick-up element that protrudes from the surface of armature join conveyance projection to the conveyance band by piece coin of picking up, push the peripherally conveyance coin (for example, with reference to patent documentation 2) of coin by this conveyance projection.

Patent documentation 1: Japanese Utility Model is registered No. 2520891 communique (2-3 page or leaf, Fig. 1-2)

Patent documentation 2: No. 3325678 communique of Jap.P. (3-4 page or leaf, Figure 10)

In recent years, the Coin depositing/dispensing machine environment on every side as collecting money change machine with coin and use in financial institution's window in the shop requires the expectation of further densification to improve constantly.

But, in the Coin depositing/dispensing machine of patent documentation 1, come each pulley of the conveyance band of axle support suspension coin passage with the axle of horizontal direction, the state that each wheels arrangements becomes the bottom surface with respect to coin passage vertically to erect, so need highly to be space at least from the bottom surface of coin passage with the thickness size addition of the diameter of each pulley and band, the space that needs the top of this coin passage of expansion, this size that becomes the body short transverse become the part of big main cause.

In addition, in the band conveyance mode with conveyance projection of patent documentation 2, owing to use the pulley that rotates abreast with respect to the coin conveyed face to come tensioning that the conveyance band is set, so compare with the conveyance mode of the use conveyance band of the Coin depositing/dispensing machine of patent documentation 1, can dwindle the space of the direction vertical with respect to the coin conveyed face.But, also have following problem in this mode.Promptly, owing to use armature to be used as conveying mechanism, and this armature is configured to heeling condition, so the conveying mechanism that has used this armature needs sizable space with respect to the size of the coin of handling on short transverse and depth direction, thereby be unsuitable for constituting the delivery section of the Coin depositing/dispensing machine that uses with coin gathering change machine with at financial institution's window in compact shop.

Summary of the invention

The present invention finishes in view of this type of problem, its objective is to provide and realize the densification of body by dwindling the required passage superjacent air space of conveyance, perhaps by will with can the corresponding allocation of space of densification give the Coin depositing/dispensing machine of taking in the portion of launching and can increasing the coin amount of taking in.

Scheme 1 has been put down in writing Coin depositing/dispensing machine, in this Coin depositing/dispensing machine, comprising:

Conveying mechanism, it carries the coin of putting in the coin slot by piece ground;

The identification passage, its identification is from the face amount of the coin of this conveying mechanism conveying;

The classification passage, it disposes with this identification passage with being connected, is used for coin category;

The conveyance unit, it has: a plurality of rotary bodies that can rotate, they carry out the axle support by the axle of vertical direction; By these rotary bodies tensioning be arranged on the above-mentioned identification passage and above-mentioned classification passage on ring-type conveyance body; With a plurality of lug bosses that protrude, also promote the conveyance coin from this conveyance body downwards by piece ground;

The handing-over unit, it will give each lug boss of above-mentioned conveyance body from the coin that above-mentioned conveying mechanism is carried by piece ground handing-over; And

Take in the portion of launching, it is configured in the below of above-mentioned classification passage, takes in by the sorted coin of above-mentioned classification passage, and can launch the coin of being taken in.

The Coin depositing/dispensing machine of scheme 2 records, according to the Coin depositing/dispensing machine of scheme 1 record, above-mentioned conveying mechanism comprises: acceptance division, its coin that will put in the above-mentioned coin slot receives with non-ordered state; Conveying belt, it is configured on the body Width of the body front surface of Coin depositing/dispensing machine, constitutes the bottom surface of above-mentioned acceptance division, and the side of sending of coin is connected mutually with the initial distolateral of above-mentioned handing-over unit and above-mentioned identification passage; And the separation roller, what it was positioned at this conveying belt sends the side upper area, rotates round about with respect to the throughput direction of this conveying belt, be used to make the coin of the non-ordered state on the conveying belt to be arranged in one deck and be arranged in row state transfer out.

The Coin depositing/dispensing machine of scheme 3 records, according to the Coin depositing/dispensing machine of scheme 2 records, above-mentioned identification passage is being configured on the body Width of above-mentioned body front surface: the coin throughput direction that makes coin conveyed direction and above-mentioned conveying mechanism is a reverse direction.

The Coin depositing/dispensing machine of scheme 4 records, Coin depositing/dispensing machine according to scheme 1 record, be provided with a plurality of classification hole with coin category in the bottom surface of above-mentioned classification passage, at at least the classification hole place the classification hole of except conveyance direction downstream portion of these classification in holes, disposing can be by the classification door of electric drive unit driving, this classification door opens and closes according to the result of the identification of the face amount in the above-mentioned identification passage, and by opening coin category in the classification hole.

The Coin depositing/dispensing machine of scheme 5 record, according to the Coin depositing/dispensing machine of scheme 4 records, the above-mentioned classification hole of the downstream portion of conveyance direction is the hole that only makes the size that the minimum diameter coin falls.

The Coin depositing/dispensing machine of scheme 6 record, according to the Coin depositing/dispensing machine of scheme 1 record, above-mentioned handing-over unit comprises: release portion, the periphery of the coin that its pushing is carried from above-mentioned conveying mechanism joins lug boss to above-mentioned conveyance body with this coin; And blocking portion, its coin with respect to this handing-over moves coin separation stop to next handing-over of back.

The Coin depositing/dispensing machine of scheme 7 records, Coin depositing/dispensing machine according to scheme 1 record, above-mentioned conveying mechanism is configured on the body Width of the body front surface of Coin depositing/dispensing machine, above-mentioned identification passage is connected with above-mentioned conveying mechanism, and be configured on the body Width of above-mentioned body front surface: the coin throughput direction that makes coin conveyed direction and above-mentioned conveying mechanism is a reverse direction, above-mentioned classification passage is connected with above-mentioned identification passage and towards the configuration of body depth direction ground, has been arranged side by side a plurality of above-mentioned portions of launching of taking in towards the body depth direction below above-mentioned classification passage.

The Coin depositing/dispensing machine of scheme 8 records, according to the Coin depositing/dispensing machine of scheme 7 records, the above-mentioned portion of launching of taking in comprises: launch band, it constitutes this bottom surface of taking in the portion of launching, and coin is received with non-ordered state; With the counter-rotating roller, what it was positioned at that this launches band launches the side upper area, and rotates in the opposite direction with respect to this direction of launching of launching band, be used to make launch with on the coin of non-ordered state be arranged in one deck and be arranged in row state launch.

The Coin depositing/dispensing machine of scheme 9 records, according to the Coin depositing/dispensing machine of scheme 7 records, above-mentioned classification channel arrangement becomes towards the body depth direction and by the above-mentioned middle section of taking in the Width of the portion of launching.

The Coin depositing/dispensing machine of scheme 10 records, Coin depositing/dispensing machine according to scheme 7 records, above-mentioned identification passage with respect to the coin throughput direction of above-mentioned conveying mechanism behind reverse direction, near the body side position change coin conveyed direction towards, and be connected with above-mentioned classification passage, near the position body side of this identification passage, the result who disposes according to face amount identification will reject the rejection coin separate part that coin separates.

The Coin depositing/dispensing machine of scheme 11 records, Coin depositing/dispensing machine according to scheme 1 record, above-mentioned conveying mechanism comprises: conveying belt, its by a plurality of rollers with along with from the throughput direction upstream side to the downstream and the mode of up-wards inclination by suspension, described a plurality of roller carries out the axle support by the axle of horizontal direction, and this conveying belt has the different bend in angle of inclination in the half-way of throughput direction; The conveying belt guide portion, it is from the part except that bend of this conveying belt of supported underneath; Separate roller, more by a side of throughput direction upstream, only forming at the upper area of said conveyer belt can be by the compartment of terrain opposite disposed of one piece of coin at the ratio bend of said conveyer belt for it, is used to make coin to be arranged in one deck and is arranged in row; Limiting part, its upper area at the bend of said conveyer belt form only can be by the compartment of terrain opposite disposed of one piece of coin; And movable support component, it is from the part of the bend of supported underneath said conveyer belt, and the sweep of said conveyer belt is supported to: by the coin of restrictedly being carried by above-mentioned limiting part, said conveyer belt is kept out of the way downwards.

The Coin depositing/dispensing machine of scheme 12 records, according to the Coin depositing/dispensing machine of scheme 11 records, above-mentioned movable support component is the roller that can rotate to the throughput direction of said conveyer belt.

The Coin depositing/dispensing machine of scheme 13 records, Coin depositing/dispensing machine according to scheme 11 or 12 records, conveyance direction downstream side in said conveyer belt, even dispose the stop element that said conveyer belt also can force to stop the conveying of coin in the course of the work, above-mentioned limiting part from the upper area of the bend of said conveyer belt to above-mentioned stop element only to form the mode opposite disposed at interval that can be by one piece of coin.

Coin depositing/dispensing machine according to scheme 1 record, rotatable a plurality of rotary bodies by axle support by the axle of vertical direction, tensioning is provided with the conveyance body of ring-type on identification passage and classification passage, thus, can dwindle the required passage superjacent air space of configuration conveyance body, therefore realized the densification of body on short transverse, perhaps by will with can the corresponding allocation of space of densification be taken in the portion of launching, can increase the coin amount of taking in.

According to the Coin depositing/dispensing machine of scheme 2 record, except the effect of the Coin depositing/dispensing machine of scheme 1 record,,, can make the conveying mechanism densification so compare with the situation of use armature because conveying mechanism is to use conveying belt and the formation of separating roller.

Coin depositing/dispensing machine according to scheme 3 records, on the basis of the effect of the Coin depositing/dispensing machine of scheme 2 record, because the identification passage is being configured on the body Width of body front surface: the coin throughput direction that makes coin conveyed direction and conveying mechanism is a reverse direction, so can dwindle conveying mechanism and the size of identification passage on the body depth direction, thereby realized the densification of body at depth direction, perhaps by will with can the corresponding allocation of space of densification be taken in the portion of launching, can increase the coin amount of taking in.

Coin depositing/dispensing machine according to scheme 4 records, except the effect of the Coin depositing/dispensing machine of scheme 1 record, because the result according to the face amount identification in the identification passage in the classification passage makes and can be opened and closed by the classification door that electric drive unit drives, and by open this classification door with coin category in the classification hole, so can be reliably with coin category.Have again, can with use the Shape Classification of classifying different corresponding to the classification hole of coin diameter size, face amount is arbitrarily set in each classification hole, for example, be set in the front surface side of body by paying frequency high " face amount of band " 1 " ", " face amount of band " 5 " " be set in the classification hole of rear side of body, that can shorten the high face amount of expenditure frequency takes in the distance of the portion of launching to the expenditure position of the coin of the front surface side of body, can shorten the expenditure processing time.Have again, for face amount of not paying or the corresponding full face amount of the portion of launching of taking in, can take in the mode of mixing with multiple face amount in the portion of launching at one and take in, can reduce thus, can use incessantly for a long time from taking in the action frequency that the portion of launching reclaims.Also have,,, can realize that cost reduces so can not need electric drive unit and drivable classification door owing to can make the classification hole of classification hole for classifying of the downstream portion of conveyance direction according to coin shapes.

Coin depositing/dispensing machine according to scheme 5 records, except the effect of the Coin depositing/dispensing machine of scheme 4 record, classification hole by making the downstream portion of conveyance direction is the hole of the size that only makes the minimum diameter coin and fall, coin except that the minimum diameter coin can't drop to by this hole of classifying and take in the portion of launching, therefore for example when waiting because of the income conveyance is unusual when having the residual state lower device of coin to stop on the passage of classifying, when user etc. removes left coins by manual manipulation, do not worry that mistake makes coin beyond the minimum diameter coin fall into the classification hole of the downstream portion of conveyance direction, can prevent that different denominations from sneaking into the cash accident that is caused.

Coin depositing/dispensing machine according to scheme 6 records, except the effect of the Coin depositing/dispensing machine of scheme 1 record, the pushing of the enough releases of energy portion is from the periphery of the coin of conveying mechanism conveying in the handing-over unit, this coin is joined lug boss to the conveyance body reliably, and can enough blocking portions the back coin that transports from conveying mechanism be separated and stop to next handing-over action, coin can be joined lug boss to the conveyance body reliably by piece ground.

Coin depositing/dispensing machine according to scheme 7 records, except the effect of the Coin depositing/dispensing machine of scheme 1 record, by on the body Width of body front surface, disposing conveying mechanism and identification passage, can dwindle these conveying mechanisms and the size of identification passage on the body depth direction, can guarantee the depth space, in addition, by on the body depth direction, disposing the classification passage and disposing a plurality of portions of launching of taking in, can utilize the depth space of being guaranteed to increase and respectively take in the width of the portion of launching at depth direction, thereby can increase the coin amount of taking in, therefore not increasing cabinet size just can increase the coin amount of taking in.

Coin depositing/dispensing machine according to scheme 8 records, except the effect of the Coin depositing/dispensing machine of scheme 7 record, owing to take in the launching to be with coin is received with non-ordered state of bottom surface of the portion of launching in formation, and when launching by with respect to launching the launching direction of band round about the rotation the counter-rotating roller, make launch with on the coin of non-ordered state be arranged in one deck and be arranged in row state launch, therefore can increase the coin amount of taking in, and can launch coin reliably by piece ground.

Coin depositing/dispensing machine according to scheme 9 records, except the effect of the Coin depositing/dispensing machine of scheme 7 record, channel arrangement one-tenth is towards the middle section of body depth direction and the Width by taking in the portion of launching owing to will classify, sorted coin drops to the middle section of the Width of taking in the portion of launching in the classification passage so can make, make coin be easy to be distributed to and take in the whole zone of the portion of launching, do not increase cabinet size and just can increase the coin amount of taking in.

Coin depositing/dispensing machine according to scheme 10 records, except the effect of the Coin depositing/dispensing machine of scheme 7 record, the identification passage with respect to the coin throughput direction of conveying mechanism behind reverse direction, near the body side position change coin conveyed direction towards, and be connected to the classification passage, position configuration has with rejecting the rejection coin separate part that coin separates, so easily slave body front surface side-draw goes out the rejection coin that separates by this rejection coin separate part near the body side of this identification passage.

Coin depositing/dispensing machine according to scheme 11 records, except the effect of the Coin depositing/dispensing machine of scheme 1 record, owing to form at the upper area of the bend of conveying belt and only can limiting part be set by the compartment of terrain of one piece of coin, and with the part of movable support component from the bend of supported underneath conveying belt, and support to: by being limited the coin that component limitations ground is carried by the bend of this movable support component with conveying belt, conveying belt can be kept out of the way downwards, only allow that one piece of coin passes through, so can prevent overlapping between the coin at bend place of conveying belt, can reduce carry bad.

Coin depositing/dispensing machine according to scheme 12 records, except the effect of the Coin depositing/dispensing machine of scheme 11 record, because movable support component is can be to the roller of the throughput direction rotation of conveying belt, thus conveying belt and roller to contact the friction that is produced little, can make the rotation of conveying belt smooth and easy.

Coin depositing/dispensing machine according to scheme 13 records, except the effect of scheme 11 or 12 Coin depositing/dispensing machines of putting down in writing, even have the stop element that conveying belt also can force to stop the conveying of coin in the course of the work by conveyance direction downstream side at conveying belt, and be provided with limiting part to stop element at upper area from the bend of conveying belt, can prevent overlapping between the coin, can reduce carry bad.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 is the in-built vertical view of the Coin depositing/dispensing machine of expression an embodiment of the invention.

Fig. 2 represents the conveying mechanism of above-mentioned Coin depositing/dispensing machine, (a) be vertical view, (b) being front view, (c) is the front view of representing the feed status of the coin under the situation of parts without limits, (d) is the front view with feed status of the coin under the limiting part situation.

Fig. 3 is the front view of support structure of the movable support component of the above-mentioned Coin depositing/dispensing machine of expression.

Fig. 4 is the vertical view that the handing-over action of being carried out the handing-over unit of above-mentioned Coin depositing/dispensing machine is described with the order of (a)～(e).

Fig. 5 is the cut-open view of taking in the portion of launching of above-mentioned Coin depositing/dispensing machine.

Fig. 6 is the in-built side view of the above-mentioned Coin depositing/dispensing machine of expression.

Fig. 7 is the stereographic map of above-mentioned Coin depositing/dispensing machine.

Fig. 8 is the relevant block scheme of control with the handing-over unit of above-mentioned Coin depositing/dispensing machine.

Among the figure:

11: body; 14: coin slot; 21: conveying mechanism; 22: the identification passage; 23: the classification passage; 25: supply unit; 26: as the handing-over unit of stop element; 27: take in the portion of launching; 31: acceptance division; 32: conveying belt; 33,34: roller; 33a, 34a: axle; 35: as the roller of movable support component; 36: bend 38,39: conveying belt guide portion; 40: separate roller; 41,42: limiting part; 58: as the rejection door portion that rejects the coin separate part; 62: the classification hole; 63: the classification door; 71: as the pulley of rotary body; 71a: axle; 72: as the conveyance band of conveyance body; 73: lug boss; 84: release portion; 85: blocking portion; 92: launch band; 95: the counter-rotating roller; C: coin.

Embodiment

An embodiment of the invention are described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

The stereographic map of expression Coin depositing/dispensing machine among Fig. 7.This Coin depositing/dispensing machine is the Coin depositing/dispensing machine that for example makes up and be electrically connected, can automatically carry out the receipts and expenditures of coin with the POS cash register in the cash register in shop.

The body 11 of Coin depositing/dispensing machine comprises the framework 12 of front surface opening and the main unit 13 that can pull out from the front surface of this framework 12.Size along the body Width of the front surface of body 11 forms the roughly width about half of POS cash register, and can for example forming with this Coin depositing/dispensing machine, the bank note receiving and dispensing mach 1 ne of same widths be used in combination.

Front upper surface in the main unit of protruding from the framework 12 of body 11 13, on right side as a side of body Width, be formed with the coin slot 14 that inserts coin, in left side, dispose and be used to the operation display part 15 of operating and showing as the opposite side of body Width.

Anterior front surface in main unit 13, on the right side, can dispose with pulling out and return the rejection box 16 of rejecting coin, and dispose the power switch 17 of Coin depositing/dispensing machine and the lock 18 that under main unit 13 is inserted in state in the framework 12, locks, in addition, in the left side, dispose the discharge pallet 19 of the coin discharge that will pay in the slave.In this discharge pallet 19, dispose detect the full state of filling of the coin be discharged in the pallet 19 fill detecting sensor 20.

Next, the internal structure of expression Coin depositing/dispensing machine among Fig. 1.It comprises: conveying mechanism 21, its front portion at body 11 are configured in along on the body Width of body front surface; Coin passage 24, it has identification passage 22 and classification passage 23, described identification passage 22 is connected with this conveying mechanism 21, and be configured on the body Width coin conveyed direction with respect to conveying mechanism 21 towards reverse direction, described classification passage 23 is connected with this identification passage 22, and disposes towards body depth direction ground; Conveyance unit 25, the coin in this coin passage 24 of its conveyance; As the handing-over unit 26 of stop element, it will give conveyance unit 25 by a piece ground handing-over from the coin that conveying mechanism 21 is carried; The portion of launching 27 of taking in of Qu Fening at par, it is arranged side by side towards the body depth direction below classification passage 23; And expenditure conveying unit 28, left surface along body 11 is configured on the fore-and-aft direction in these left sides of taking in the portion of launching 27 for it.

As shown in Figures 1 and 2, conveying mechanism 21 has below coin slot 14 (to be represented the coin of putting in this coin slot 14 in the drawings with label C, omit hereinafter) with the acceptance division 31 that non-ordered state receives, the conveying belt 32 that constitutes the bottom surface of this acceptance division 31 disposes along the body Width.

This conveying belt 32 is flat rubber beltings of ring-type, its by a plurality of rollers with along with from as the right side of conveyance direction upstream side to as the left side in downstream and the mode of up-wards inclination by suspension, and by having formed the mode of the different bend 36 in angle of inclination by suspension with half-way as the roller 35 of movable support component in the conveyance direction, wherein, above-mentioned a plurality of roller comprises the roller 33,34 at the two ends that axle 33a, 34a axle by horizontal direction support.Conveying belt 32 constitute the conveyance face 37 that coin carries out conveyance that loads towards the band upper surface portion of top, the ratio bend 36 of this conveyance face 37 forms the dip plane of up-wards inclination by a side of conveyance direction upstream, and conveyance direction downstream forms surface level.The channel width that forms on conveying belt 32 forms the big and size littler than the twice of minimum diameter coin than the maximum gauge coin in the coin of handling.

Downside in the band upper surface portion of the conveyance face 37 that constitutes conveying belt 32 disposes conveying belt guide portion 38,39, and this conveying belt guide portion 38,39 constitutes the part except that bend 36 the band upper surface position of conveyance face 37 from supported underneath.

Conveying belt 32, than bend 36 a side by conveyance direction upstream, at the upper area of conveying belt 32, forming only to have the roller 40 of separation by the compartment of terrain opposite disposed of one piece of coin.This separation roller 40 rotates round about with respect to the coin conveyed direction of conveying belt 32, is used to make the coin of the non-ordered state on the conveying belt 32 to be arranged in one deck and to be arranged in a row ground conveying.

At the upper area of the bend 36 of conveying belt 32 and than the upper area of bend 36 by a side in conveyance direction downstream, forming only can be by the restricted parts 41,42 of compartment of terrain opposite disposed of one piece of coin.

In the ratio bend 36 of conveying belt 32 zone by conveyance direction downstream, limiting part 41,42, downside, dispose guide portion 43, the periphery butt of the coin on this guide portion 43 and the conveying belt 32, and initial distolateral with this coin guiding identification passage 22., be formed with guiding protuberance 44 in guide portion 43 midway, the coin that this guiding protuberance 44 makes periphery and guide portion 43 butts than the coin of back towards the initiating terminal side shifting of discerning passage 22.

By pushing the bend 36 of conveying belt 32 by coin, and conveying belt 32 is kept out of the way from the roller 35 of the part of the bend 36 of supported underneath conveying belt 32 downwards, described coin when being limited parts 41 restrictions by conveyance.As shown in Figure 3, roller 35 is supported for and can moves up at upper and lower, and the leaf spring 45 that is used as application of force unit is towards the top application of force.Promptly, roller 35 can be to the conveyance direction rotation of conveying belt 32 by the axle 46 of horizontal direction, axle 46 is fixed on the free-ended front end of conduct of leaf spring 45, the cardinal extremity of leaf spring 45 is installed on the fixed position 47 that is fixed in conveying belt guide portion 39, the elasticity of leaf spring 45 is all the time so that the mode effect that roller 35 is moved upward, and roller 35 leaf spring 45 that moves through upward is limited with the butt of stopper section 48.And set for: in leaf spring 45 and lifting position stopper section 48 butts, roller 35, the bend 36 of conveying belt 32 and the interval of limiting part 41 are littler than the thickness of the coin of handling.

In addition, as shown in Figure 1, coin passage 24 is configured to horizontality, has in the scope of identification passage 22 and classification passage 23: by a passage face 51 that the surface level that face contacted constitutes of coin; And at the channel side face 52 of the both sides of the periphery of two side directed coins of this passage face 51.The opposed width of the channel side face 52 of both sides, be that channel width forms the big and size littler than the twice of minimum diameter coin than maximum gauge coin in the coin of handling.

Identification passage 22 has: the direction first reentrant pathway portion 53 of turning back to the right from the initial end that is connected with conveying mechanism 21; The identification channel part 54 that is connected with this first reentrant pathway portion 53, disposes abreast at the conveying belt 32 of the depths of conveying mechanism 21 side and this conveying mechanism 21; Be connected with this identification channel part 54 and the direction second reentrant pathway portion 55 of turning back left; And be connected with this second reentrant pathway portion 55 and to the bending channel portion 56 of classification passage 23 bendings of body depth direction.

On the identification channel part 54 of identification passage 22, dispose the coin recognizing method portion 57 with the identification face amount such as the material that detects coin, diameter.

In near the second reentrant pathway portion 55 side, body 11 right side of being positioned at of identification passage 22, dispose as the rejection door portion 58 that rejects the coin separate part, reject door portion 58 and will be identified as the rejection coin of rejecting coin according to the recognition result of coin recognizing method portion 57 and separate.Reject door portion 58 at this, in the scope of facial 52 parts of channel side of the outer circumferential side of passage face 51 to second reentrant pathway portions 55, be formed with branched hole 59, the size of this branched hole 59 is for separating coin, dual-purpose, makes by electric drive units such as not shown solenoid or motor and to reject door 60 and open and close can being that the mode of opened or closed is disposed at this branched hole 59 with body back side from the rejection door 60 of the part of the channel side face 52 of the outer circumferential side of passage face 51 to second reentrant pathway portions 55.Dispose below rejection coin separate part and reject box 16, by rejecting opening of door 60, the rejection coin of telling from branched hole 59 is accommodated in the rejection box 16.

In the second reentrant pathway portion 55 of identification passage 22, be transported to rubbish and the outlet 59a of foreign matter whereabouts that discerns in the passage 22 to get rid of than rejecting the side of door portion 58, be formed with to make by conveyance direction upstream.About this outlet 59a, but leave the mounting amount of mounting minimum diameter coin in the both sides of outlet 59a, so that no matter the minimum diameter coin still carries out conveyance near ground, the outside and can not drop among the outlet 59a near inboard.

The classification passage 23 be configured to from identification passage 22 bending channel portion 56 towards the body depth direction, and the middle section of the body Width by taking in the portion of launching 27, with a plurality of corresponding a plurality of classification positions in top position of respectively taking in the portion of launching 27, dispose a plurality of classification door portion 61, classification door portion 61 at par classifies coin and it is accommodated in and respectively takes in the portion of launching 27.At each classification door portion 61 place, on passage face 51, be formed with the branched hole 62 that coin is fallen, classification door 63 to be can being that the mode of opened or closed is disposed at this branched hole 62 with coin conveyed direction downstream, and this classification 63 opens and closes by electric drive units such as not shown solenoid or motor.

The initial distolateral of passage 23 of classifying, dispose detecting unit 64, this detecting unit 64 detects optically by the next coin of conveyance unit 25 conveyances.

In addition, in the conveyance unit 25, support to a plurality of pulleys 71 that can rotate in the horizontal direction by axle 71a axle as rotary body by vertical direction, tensioning is provided as the conveyance band 72 of conveyance body, and 72 tensionings of conveyance band are arranged in when the Width middle section of identification passage 22 and classification passage 23 moves and rotate.Conveyance band 72 uses the timing belt that for example has a plurality of teeth in interior week, and under this situation, pulley 71 also can use the timing pulley that has a plurality of teeth at side face.Conveyance band 72 that is supported by a plurality of pulleys 71 and the interval between the passage face 51 remain the thick size of thickness than the maximum ga(u)ge coin in the coin of handling.

On conveyance band 72, on the conveyance direction, every can be, be provided with and protrude downwards and promote the lug boss 73 that the coin in the passage carries out conveyance by piece ground by piece a ground separating coin and the predetermined space that carries out conveyance.Interval between lug boss 73 and the passage face 51 remains the little size of thickness than the minimum thickness coin of handling.

In addition, as Fig. 1, Fig. 2 and shown in Figure 4, handing-over unit 26 will sent into the initial end of the identification passage 22 of identification passage 22 from the coin that conveying mechanism 21 is carried, with respect to the guide portion 43 that coin is guided to identification passage 22 from conveying belt 32, in the position of the opposition side of channel width direction, an axle 81a axle that has by vertical direction supports to the round-shaped cam 81 that can rotate in the horizontal direction.Cam 81 by electric drive unit such as not shown for example pulse motor by handing-over direction (clockwise direction among the figure) driven in rotation to coin.

At the lower surface of cam 81, protrude downwards and be formed with a pair of protuberance 82 at the symmetric position place on the circumference of circumference, is formed with slot part 83 between these protuberances 82.Interval between protuberance 82 and the passage face 51 forms the unapproachable size of coin, and the width of the slot part 83 that interval between slot part 83 and the passage face 51 and a pair of protuberance are 82 forms the size that can enter one piece of coin respectively.

The edge portion towards sense of rotation of each protuberance 82 constitutes release portion 84, the periphery of the coin in the slot part 83 has been carried and has been entered in 84 pushings of release portion from conveying mechanism 21, with the lug boss 73 that this coin is joined to conveyance band 72, and, each protuberance 82 constitute blocking portion 85 towards the rightabout edge portion of sense of rotation and the outer peripheral face of each protuberance 82, blocking portion 85 is separated next the handing-over time that is docked to respect to the coin that joins with the coin of back.

Side locations at the conveying belt 32 of conveying mechanism 21 disposes detecting unit 86, and this detecting unit 86 detects the coin of carrying to identification passage 22 from conveying mechanism 21 optically.

And, shown in Fig. 4 (a), cam 81 is controlled so as to: will enter in the slot part 83 from the coin that conveying mechanism 21 is transported to the identification passage 22, and be connected to a blocking portion 85 and the position that stops as allocation, this cam 81 is according to the position of the lug boss 73 of conveyance band 72 and coin can joined to rotating 180 ° the opportunity of this lug boss 73, coin in the back that is transported to identification passage 22 from conveying mechanism 21 enters another slot part 83, and be connected to another blocking portion 85 and the position that stops promptly descends the certain position place to stop, and standby is to next handing-over action.

In addition, as shown in Figure 5, respectively take in the portion of launching 27 and have incorporating section 91, incorporating section 91 will be taken in non-ordered state by the coin that the classification of classification passage 23 is fallen, and the launching of bottom that constitutes this incorporating section 91 is with 92 to dispose along the body Width.

Launching with 92 is flat rubber beltings of ring-type, its by a plurality of rollers with along with from as the right side of launching the direction upstream side to as the left side in downstream and the mode of up-wards inclination by suspension, wherein said a plurality of rollers comprise the roller 93,94 at the two ends that axle supports by the axle of horizontal direction.

At the upper area of launching with 92 the end side of launching direction, forming only to have counter-rotating roller 95 by the compartment of terrain opposite disposed of one piece of coin.This counter-rotating roller 95 rotates round about with respect to the direction of launching of launching with 92, is used for being arranged in one deck and launching with being arranged in row launching coin with the non-ordered state on 92.

Reverse roller 95 more by launching a side of direction end at the ratio of launching with 92, dispose detection from the detecting unit 96 of launching the coin of launching with 92 end and the stopper section of launching 97 that stops the coin of back in the moment of the coin of launching requirement forcibly.

In addition, as Fig. 1 and shown in Figure 6, expenditure conveying unit 28 has expenditure conveyance band 101, expenditure conveyance band 101 is launched the sidepiece of direction along fore-and-aft direction tensioning setting at all coins of taking in the portion of launching 27, expenditure conveying unit 28 will be loaded on the expenditure conveyance band 101 and conveyance forwards from respectively taking in the coin that the portion of launching 27 launches, and be discharged to and discharge in the pallet 19.

In addition, among Fig. 8 expression with join the relevant block scheme of control of unit.Control part 111 has such function: detect the information of having carried coin from conveying mechanism 21 according to the information relevant with the position of the lug boss 73 of conveyance band 72 with by detecting unit 86, make motor M work, make cam 81 rotations of handing-over unit 26, thereby pursue a piece ground handing-over coin with respect to the lug boss 73 of conveyance band 72.

Below, the effect of the Coin depositing/dispensing machine of present embodiment is described.

At first, processing describes to income.

Coin is rendered to the acceptance division 31 of conveying mechanism 21 from coin slot 14.By with the not shown sensor of this acceptance division 31 coin to the conveying belt 32, conveying belt 32 rotations, and separate roller 40 and rotate round about make the coin of the non-ordered state on the conveying belt 32 be arranged in one deck and send with forming a line.

Shown in Fig. 2 (a), (d), the coin that is arranged in one deck and is arranged in row by the downside that separates roller 40 enters the downside of limiting part 41, and moves to conveyance direction downstream when overcoming acting force the roller 35 of the bend 36 of support belt 32 being pressed down.Have, this coin enters the downside of limiting part 42 again, and circumference is connected to guide portion 43 and moves to the initial end of identification passage 22.

At this moment, shown in Fig. 2 (c), when at the upper area of the bend 36 of conveying belt 32 without limits under the situation of parts 41, be loaded in the rear portion side of the coin on the surface level in conveyance direction downstream of bend 36, dip plane perk with respect to the conveyance direction upstream side of bend 36, the coin of back can enter the coin of this perk, may make between the coin overlapping.In addition, in the formation of this type of existing coin transporting device, for prevent between the coin have on the conveying belt of bend overlapping, and more than two places of throughput direction, be provided with the bend of conveying belt, perhaps make a large amount of bends of conveying belt make continuously conveyance face be curve form (for example, with reference to TOHKEMY 2004-199154 communique), but when stagnating near the outlet of coin at transfer passage under the rotation status at conveying belt, the coin of back contacts and stagnates with the coin pressure of the front that is close to, at this moment, because at overlapping parts between the coin without limits above the conveying belt, so, overlapping between the coin occur sometimes because of the small vibration or the destructions of balance such as distortion of coin.

Relative with it, in the formation of coin transporting device as the present embodiment, shown in Fig. 2 (a), (d), there is limiting part 41 in upper area at the bend 36 of conveying belt 32, by the part of roller 35 from the bend 36 of supported underneath conveying belt 32, and utilize this roller 35 that the bend 36 of conveying belt 32 is supported to: by being limited the coin of parts 41 conveyance restrictedly, conveying belt 32 is kept out of the way downwards, and allow passing through of one piece of coin, so can prevent overlapping between the coin at bend 36 places of conveying belt 32, it is bad to reduce conveyance.

Can be used as movable support component to the roller 35 that the conveyance direction of conveying belt 32 is rotated by using, conveying belt 32 reduces with the friction that is produced that contacts of roller 35, can make the rotation of conveying belt 32 smooth and easy.

Have again, the cam 81 of handing-over unit 26 of the initial end by being positioned at identification passage 22, even if the conveyance of coin is stopped, and limiting part 41,42 is set by near zone from the upper area of the bend 36 of conveying belt 32 to cam 81, limit coin because of pressure moving upward, can prevent overlapping between the coin.

In addition, shown in Fig. 4 (a), cam 81 in the handing-over unit 26 that is positioned at the initial end of discerning passage 22 is under the situation of allocation, be connected to guide portion 43 ground and enter a slot part 83, and stop with blocking portion 85 butts of a protuberance 82 from the coin that conveying mechanism 21 moves to the initial end of identification passage 22.At this moment, the rotation of conveying belt 32 continues.In addition, shown in Fig. 2 (a), owing to make the coin that is connected to guide portion 43 than the coin of back initiating terminal side shifting, so coin can be sent in the slot part 83 of cam 81 reliably to identification passage 22 by guiding protuberance 44.

Be transported to the coin of identification the passage 22 by detecting with detecting unit 86 from conveying mechanism 21, according to the position of the lug boss 73 of conveyance band 72, on the predetermined opportunity that coin can be joined to this lug boss 73, cam 81 rotates to the handing-over direction.

Shown in Fig. 4 (b), when cam 81 began to rotate, another protuberance 82 entered between the coin of the coin that joins previously and back, and the blocking portion 85 as outer peripheral face by another protuberance 82 stops to advance of coin of back.

Shown in Fig. 4 (c), the coin that joins is previously released the position that can join in the identification passage 22 of the lug boss 73 of conveyance band 72 by the release portion 84 of another protuberance 82.

Shown in Fig. 4 (d), cam 81 rotates 180 °, stops behind the certain position under being returned to.

Shown in Fig. 4 (e), with the coin in the lug boss 73 promotion conveyance identification passages 22 of conveyance band 72.In addition, the coin of back enters in another slot part 83, and by detecting this coin with detecting unit 86, according to the position of next lug boss 73 of conveyance band 72, on the predetermined opportunity that coin can be joined to this lug boss 73, cam 81 rotates to the handing-over direction.

Like this, the periphery of the coin that transfers out from conveying mechanism 21 by release portion 84 pushing of cam 81, this coin is joined lug boss 73 to conveyance band 72, to separate stop from the coin of the back that conveying mechanism 21 transports to next handing-over action by the blocking portion 85 of cam 81, therefore, coin can be joined lug boss 73 to conveyance band 72 reliably by piece ground.Therefore, prevented from together to be transferred next rubbish from coin slot 14 inputs and by conveying mechanism 21 and coin, foreign matters etc. are blended in the coin passage 24, have again, even just in case rubbish is arranged, foreign matters etc. are transported in the coin passage, owing to have and be used to make these rubbish, the outlet 59a of foreign matter whereabouts to get rid of, also can prevent rubbish, foreign matters etc. are blended into conveyance direction downstream, it is bad to reduce conveyance, in addition, by using cam 81, the coin that transfers out from conveying mechanism 21 can be joined lug boss 73 to conveyance band 72 reliably by piece ground, and it is irrelevant with the structure of conveying mechanism 21 and coin passage 24, can make conveying mechanism 21 and coin passage 24 for compact formation, make coin conveying device densification.

Carry out the handing-over of coin owing to drive round-shaped cam 81 rotations on circumference, dispose at least one pair of release portion 84 and blocking portion 85, so can be smooth and easy and carry out the handing-over action of coin reliably.

In addition, discern the face amount that in identification passage 22, promotes the coin of conveying by the lug boss 73 of conveyance band 72 with coin recognizing method portion 57.

The rejection coin that is identified as rejection coins such as can't discerning as the result who discerns is separated by rejecting door portion 58, and is accommodated in the rejection box 16.Pull out recyclable rejection coin from body 11 by rejecting box 16.

At this moment, the second reentrant pathway portion 55 is with respect to the coin throughput direction of conveying mechanism 21 and after reverse direction, near the right flank of body 11 position change coin conveyed direction towards, and with the classification passage 23 be connected, dispose the door portion 58 that rejects at the second reentrant pathway portion, 55 places, can will reject in the rejection box 16 that coin easily be accommodated near the position right flank that is disposed at body 11, and easily slave body front surface side-draw goes out to reject coin.

In addition, the coin that is identified as suitable coin as the result who discerns after being detected by detecting unit 64, carries out conveyance by rejecting door portion 58 in classification passage 23.In classification passage 23 and since can according to each of coin recognizing method portion 57 and detecting unit 64 detect and the conveyance of 72 pairs of coins of conveyance band apart from the conveyance position of grasp coin, so come coin is classified with the classification door 63 of corresponding face amount.

At this moment, in classification passage 23, according to the face amount recognition result in the identification passage 22, can open and close, by opening coin category in classification hole 62, of this classification door 63 so can be reliably with coin category by the classification door 63 that electric drive unit drives.

Because classification passage 23 is configured to the middle section towards body depth direction and the Width by taking in the portion of launching 27, so the coin through classification in classification passage 23 drops to the middle section of the body Width of taking in the portion of launching 27, and is distributed to the whole zone of taking in the portion of launching 27 easily.

Below, processing describes to expenditure.

, make to launch and be with 92 rotations from the signal of the expenditure of POS cash register instruction according to for example, and 95 counter-rotatings of counter-rotating roller, make the coin of launching with the non-neat state on 92 be arranged in one deck and be arranged in a row ground and send to launching direction.

Open stopper section 97 in the portion of launching 27 taking in of corresponding face amount of expenditure, coin is launched expenditure conveying unit 28 from launching with 92 end.The detected unit 96 of the coin of being launched detects and counts.

In the portion of launching 27 of taking in of the corresponding face amount of non-expenditure and launched the portion of launching 27 of taking in of the corresponding face amount of the expenditure after the requirement, close stopper section 97, the launching of restriction coin.

To launch the coin conveyance forwards of expenditure conveying unit 28, and be discharged to discharge pallet 19.

In addition, the action of expenditure conveying unit 28 begin can with begin simultaneously from taking in the action that the portion of launching 27 launches, perhaps also can be after taking in the release that the portion of launching 27 launches.

With from taking under action that the portion of launching 27 launches begins to situation simultaneously, can shorten the expenditure processing time, and from the face amount set in body front surface side conveyance successively to discharging the pallet 19, so the Visual Confirmation face amount of paying easily can be carried out more reliable transaction.

On the other hand, begin under the situation after the release of launching of taking in that the portion of launching 27 carries out in the action that makes expenditure conveying unit 28, before all coins that should pay are launched on the expenditure conveying unit 28, do not have conveyance to arrive and discharge pallet 19, even so launch slower coin because of certain reason exists, only a part of first conveyance can not appear yet to discharging on the pallet 19, before the residue coin is by conveyance, what cause because of the time is idle forgets the situation of taking coin away, has realized preventing of cash accident.

Have, under the situation of recycling, preferably making the driving of expenditure conveying unit 28 begin with action begins from launching of taking in that the portion of launching 27 carries out is simultaneously again.This be because, handle with expenditure and to compare, recycling will be launched a large amount of coins, thereby can shorten the processing time.

In addition, in recycling, detect and discharge under the situation that pallet 19 fills by the detecting sensor 20 of filling of discharging pallet 19, make from taking in the action of launching that the portion of launching 27 carries out and stop temporarily, after coin conveyed on will launching expenditure conveying unit 28 arrives and discharges pallet 19, stop the conveyance action.Then, launch coin when the user takes away, removed when filling the filling of detecting sensor 20, automatically begin to launch action once more.Thus, can will fill the cash accident that the coin that produces overflows due to waiting and prevent terminating in possible trouble, and, can alleviate user's burden by automatically beginning to launch action once more because of discharging pallet 19.

In the Coin depositing/dispensing machine that so constitutes, by rotatable a plurality of pulleys 71 that the 71a axle supports by vertical direction, come to be provided with the conveyance band 72 of ring-type, can dwindle the required passage superjacent air space of configuration of conveyance band 72 in tensioning on the identification passage 22 and on the classification passage 23.Therefore, the densification of the short transverse of body 11 can be realized, but, the coin amount of taking in can be increased perhaps by being taken in the portion of launching 27 with the corresponding allocation of space of this densification.

In addition, in recent years, as the Coin depositing/dispensing machine environment on every side of collecting money change machine and using with coin at financial institution's window in the shop, under the situation that does not increase cabinet size, can efficient capital employed well, and can not increase day by day in the demand that the jumbo Coin depositing/dispensing machine that maybe can not pay takes place to take in this transaction midway.But, in existing Coin depositing/dispensing machine,, take in the portion of launching and on the body Width, be arranged side by side, so become the part of the main cause that body Width and depth direction all increase because coin passage is L font roughly.

To this, by on the body Width of body front surface, disposing conveying mechanism 21 and identification passage 22, can dwindle this conveying mechanism 21 and identification passage 22 size at the body depth direction, guarantee the depth space, in addition, by configuration classification passage 23 on the body depth direction, and dispose a plurality of portions of launching 27 of taking in, can utilize the depth space of being guaranteed to increase and respectively take in the width of the portion of launching 27 on depth direction, can increase the coin amount of taking in, therefore, form roughly T font, do not increase cabinet size and just can increase the coin amount of taking in by making coin passage 24.

And, because classification passage 23 is configured to the middle section towards body depth direction and the Width by taking in the portion of launching 27, so can make the middle section that drops to the Width of taking in the portion of launching 27 at classification passage 23 sorted coins, can coin be distributed to and take in the whole zone of the portion of launching 27, not increase cabinet size and just can increase the coin amount of taking in.

In addition, because conveying mechanism 21 is to use conveying belt 32 and the formation of separating roller 40,, can make conveying mechanism 21 densifications so compare with the situation of using armature.

In addition, constituted the coin conveying device by conveying mechanism 21, coin passage 24, conveyance unit 25, handing-over unit 26, detecting unit 86 and control part 111 etc.That is, the coin conveying device comprises: conveying mechanism 21, and it carries the coin of putting in the coin slot 14 by piece ground; Coin passage 24, it receives the coin of carrying from this conveying mechanism 21; Conveyance band 72, its tensioning are arranged on this coin passage 24, and have the lug boss 73 that promotes the coin in the conveyance coin passage 24 by piece ground; Handing-over unit 26, it has release portion 84 and blocking portion 85, release portion 84 promotes from conveying mechanism 21 by piece periphery of the coin that ground is carried, and this coin is joined lug boss 73 to conveyance band 72, and blocking portion 85 is separated the coin of back with respect to the coin of handing-over and stopped to next handing-over action; Detecting unit 86, it detects by conveying mechanism 21 and has carried coin; And control part 111, it detects coin by this detecting unit 86, and makes 26 work of handing-over unit, makes coin pursue the lug boss 73 that above-mentioned conveyance band 72 is given in piece ground handing-over.

Formation by this coin conveying device, because the release portion 84 by handing-over unit 26 pushes from the periphery of the coin of conveying mechanism 21 conveyings, this coin is joined lug boss 73 to the conveyance band 72 of coin passage 24, to separate to stop from the coin of the back that conveying mechanism 21 is carried by the blocking portion 85 of handing-over unit 26, so can join coin reliably by piece ground to the lug boss 73 of conveyance band 72 to next handing-over action.Therefore, not only can prevent that rubbish, foreign matter etc. from sneaking in the coin passage 24, it is bad to reduce conveyance, and by using handing-over unit 26 coin carried from conveying mechanism 21 can be joined lug boss 73 to conveyance band 72 reliably by piece ground, and it is irrelevant with the structure of conveying mechanism 21 and coin passage 24, thereby can make conveying mechanism 21 and coin passage 24 for compact formation, make coin conveying device densification.

Promptly, as existing coin conveying device, only merely using conveying belt and separating roller and come by piece formation (with reference to the patent documentation as shown in the background technology 1) that coin is carried on ground, come the formation of carrying (for example with the armature rotation that makes level by piece ground, with reference to TOHKEMY 2002-298184 communique) in, exist and sneak in the coin, rubbish on the conveying belt or on the armature, foreign matters etc. also are transported to the possibility in the coin passage, become the bad main cause of conveyance in the coin passage, and by as the coin conveying device of present embodiment, constituting, can prevent rubbish, foreign matters etc. are blended in the coin passage 24, and it is bad to reduce conveyance.

Have again, as the patent documentation as shown in the background technology 2, at the coin that will pick up by the pick-up element that is inclined to the armature of predetermined angular with respect to horizontal direction, be handed off to the conveyance projection of conveyance band, utilize under the situation of peripherally conveyance coin of this conveyance projection pushing coin, though the rubbish in the Qian Dou, the situation that foreign matter etc. are transferred is few, but owing to use armature as conveying mechanism, and this armature is configured to heeling condition, so size for the coin of handling, need sizable space on short transverse and depth direction, this large-scale coin conveying device is difficult to the coin conveying device of the Coin depositing/dispensing machine that uses with coin gathering change machine or at financial institution's window as compact shop.Relative therewith, by as the coin conveying device of present embodiment, constituting, can prevent that rubbish, foreign matter etc. are blended in the coin passage 24, it is bad to reduce conveyance, in addition, the coin carried from conveying mechanism 21 can be joined lug boss 73 to conveyance band 72 reliably by piece ground by using handing-over unit 26, and irrelevant with the structure of conveying mechanism 21 and coin passage 24, thereby can make conveying mechanism 21 and coin passage 24 become compact formation, can make coin conveying device densification.

In addition, handing-over unit 26 has round-shaped cam 81, and cam 81 is supported by the axle 81a axle of vertical direction, and can dispose at least one pair of release portion 84 and blocking portion 85 on the circumference of this cam 81 by the electric drive unit driven in rotation.Constitute by this,, carry out the handing-over of coin, so can be smooth and easy and carry out the handing-over action of coin reliably owing to drive round-shaped cam 81 rotations of on circumference, disposing at least one pair of release portion 84 and blocking portion 85.

Having, as the conveyance body, be not limited to conveyance band 72, can be for example line or chain etc., under this situation, as rotary body, is not limited to pulley 71, can use roller or sprocket wheel etc.

In addition, the handing-over unit is not limited to cam 81, for example can use the band that has a plurality of projectioies at side face, will take between the projection by piece ground from the coin that conveying mechanism 21 is carried, and by projection coin is shifted onto in the identification passage 22, and the coin of back is stopped.

In addition, about the coin category in the classification passage 23, also can utilize the classification hole that on passage face 51, forms to carry out Shape Classification according to diameter dimension according to order from the minor diameter coin to the major diameter coin.

Have again, take in the portion of launching 27 and be not limited to six.

In addition, the Shape Classification of classifying corresponding to the classification hole of coin diameter size is different with utilizing, classification is accommodated in the face amount of respectively taking in the portion of launching 27 and can sets arbitrarily, for example, under situation about in supermarket etc., using as coin gathering change machine, press 10 yen by paying frequency high " face amount of band " 1 " " from the front surface side of body 11,1 yen, 100 yen order is set, " face amount of band " 5 " " pressed 50 yen towards the rear side of body 11,5 yen, 500 yen order is set, thus, the expenditure processing time can shorten to the distance of discharging pallet 19 in the portion of launching 27 of taking in that can shorten the high face amount of expenditure frequency.

Have again, take in the face amount that the portion of launching 27 has filled for obsolete face amount of expenditure and correspondence, also can take in the mode of mixing with a plurality of face amounts in the portion of launching 27 and take in, thereby can reduce, can in long-time, use incessantly from taking in the action frequency that the portion of launching 27 reclaims at one.

As other embodiment, the classification hole that can make the downstream portion of conveyance direction under this situation, does not need electric drive unit and drivable classification door 63 for the hole of the size that only makes the minimum diameter coin and fall, has realized the decline of cost.Have again, because coin except the minimum diameter coin can't be taken in the portion of launching 27 by this hole and dropping to of classifying, therefore, for example when waiting because of the income conveyance is unusual when having coin to remain in state lower device on the classification passage 23 to stop, when user etc. removes left coins by manual manipulation, do not worry that mistake drops in the classification hole of the downstream portion of conveyance direction coin beyond the minimum diameter coin, prevented that different denominations from sneaking into the cash accident that is caused.

Utilizability on the industry

The present invention is applied to be electrically connected, can automatically to carry out according to the signals of telecommunication of exporting from these cashier's equipment with cashier's equipment such as POS cash register or electronic type cashier's machine and the coin supervisors of coming in and going out the Coin depositing/dispensing machine etc. of the receipts and expenditures of coin.

Claims (13)

1. a Coin depositing/dispensing machine is characterized in that, above-mentioned Coin depositing/dispensing machine comprises:

Conveying mechanism, it carries the coin of putting in the coin slot by piece ground;

The identification passage, its identification is from the face amount of the coin of this conveying mechanism conveying;

The classification passage, it disposes with this identification passage with being connected, is used for coin category;

The conveyance unit, it has: a plurality of rotary bodies that can rotate, they carry out the axle support by the axle of vertical direction; By these rotary bodies tensioning be arranged on the above-mentioned identification passage and above-mentioned classification passage on ring-type conveyance body; With a plurality of lug bosses that protrude, also promote the conveyance coin from this conveyance body downwards by piece ground;

The handing-over unit, it will give each lug boss of above-mentioned conveyance body from the coin that above-mentioned conveying mechanism is carried by piece ground handing-over; And

Take in the portion of launching, it is configured in the below of above-mentioned classification passage, takes in by the sorted coin of above-mentioned classification passage, and can launch the coin of being taken in.

2. Coin depositing/dispensing machine according to claim 1 is characterized in that,

Above-mentioned conveying mechanism comprises:

Acceptance division, its coin that will put in the above-mentioned coin slot receives with non-ordered state;

Conveying belt, it is configured on the body Width of the body front surface of Coin depositing/dispensing machine, constitutes the bottom surface of above-mentioned acceptance division, and the side of sending of coin is connected mutually with the initial distolateral of above-mentioned handing-over unit and above-mentioned identification passage; And

Separate roller, what it was positioned at this conveying belt sends the side upper area, rotates round about with respect to the throughput direction of this conveying belt, be used to make the coin of the non-ordered state on the conveying belt to be arranged in one deck and be arranged in row state transfer out.

3. Coin depositing/dispensing machine according to claim 2 is characterized in that,

Above-mentioned identification passage is being configured on the body Width of above-mentioned body front surface: the coin throughput direction that makes coin conveyed direction and above-mentioned conveying mechanism is a reverse direction.

4. Coin depositing/dispensing machine according to claim 1 is characterized in that,

Be provided with a plurality of classification hole with coin category in the bottom surface of above-mentioned classification passage, at at least the classification hole place the classification hole of except conveyance direction downstream portion of these classification in holes, disposing can be by the classification door of electric drive unit driving, this classification door opens and closes according to the result of the identification of the face amount in the above-mentioned identification passage, and by opening coin category in the classification hole.

5. Coin depositing/dispensing machine according to claim 4 is characterized in that,

The above-mentioned classification hole of the downstream portion of conveyance direction is the hole that only makes the size that the minimum diameter coin falls.

6. Coin depositing/dispensing machine according to claim 1 is characterized in that,

Above-mentioned handing-over unit comprises: release portion, and the periphery of the coin that its pushing is carried from above-mentioned conveying mechanism joins lug boss to above-mentioned conveyance body with this coin; And blocking portion, its coin with respect to this handing-over moves coin separation stop to next handing-over of back.

7. Coin depositing/dispensing machine according to claim 1 is characterized in that,

Above-mentioned conveying mechanism is configured on the body Width of the body front surface of Coin depositing/dispensing machine,

Above-mentioned identification passage is connected with above-mentioned conveying mechanism, and is being configured on the body Width of above-mentioned body front surface: the coin throughput direction that makes coin conveyed direction and above-mentioned conveying mechanism is a reverse direction,

Above-mentioned classification passage is connected with above-mentioned identification passage and disposes towards body depth direction ground,

Below above-mentioned classification passage, a plurality of above-mentioned portions of launching of taking in have been arranged side by side towards the body depth direction.

8. Coin depositing/dispensing machine according to claim 7 is characterized in that,

The above-mentioned portion of launching of taking in comprises: launch band, it constitutes this bottom surface of taking in the portion of launching, and coin is received with non-ordered state; With the counter-rotating roller, what it was positioned at that this launches band launches the side upper area, and rotates round about with respect to this direction of launching of launching band, be used to make launch with on the coin of non-ordered state be arranged in one deck and be arranged in row state launch.

9. Coin depositing/dispensing machine according to claim 7 is characterized in that,

Above-mentioned classification channel arrangement becomes towards the body depth direction and by the above-mentioned middle section of taking in the Width of the portion of launching.

10. Coin depositing/dispensing machine according to claim 7 is characterized in that,

Above-mentioned identification passage with respect to the coin throughput direction of above-mentioned conveying mechanism behind reverse direction, near the body side position change coin conveyed direction towards, and be connected with above-mentioned classification passage,

Near the position body side of this identification passage, the result who disposes according to face amount identification will reject the rejection coin separate part that coin separates.

11. Coin depositing/dispensing machine according to claim 1 is characterized in that,

Above-mentioned conveying mechanism comprises:

Conveying belt, its by a plurality of rollers with along with from the throughput direction upstream side to the downstream and the mode of up-wards inclination by suspension, described a plurality of roller carries out the axle support by the axle of horizontal direction, and this conveying belt has the different bend in angle of inclination in the half-way of throughput direction;

The conveying belt guide portion, it is from the part except that bend of this conveying belt of supported underneath;

Separate roller, more by a side of throughput direction upstream, only forming at the upper area of said conveyer belt can be by the compartment of terrain opposite disposed of one piece of coin at the ratio bend of said conveyer belt for it, is used to make coin to be arranged in one deck and is arranged in row;

Limiting part, its upper area at the bend of said conveyer belt form only can be by the compartment of terrain opposite disposed of one piece of coin; And

Movable support component, it is from the part of the bend of supported underneath said conveyer belt, and the sweep of said conveyer belt is supported to: by the coin of restrictedly being carried by above-mentioned limiting part, said conveyer belt is kept out of the way downwards.

12. Coin depositing/dispensing machine according to claim 11 is characterized in that,

Above-mentioned movable support component is the roller that can rotate to the throughput direction of said conveyer belt.

13. according to claim 11 or 12 described Coin depositing/dispensing machines, it is characterized in that,

In the conveyance direction downstream side of said conveyer belt, even dispose the stop element that said conveyer belt also can force to stop the conveying of coin in the course of the work,

Above-mentioned limiting part only can pass through the mode opposite disposed at the interval of one piece of coin with formation to above-mentioned stop element from the upper area of the bend of said conveyer belt.

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