CN107833401B

CN107833401B - Booklet page turning device, booklet processing device using the same, and automatic transaction device

Info

Publication number: CN107833401B
Application number: CN201710681095.1A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 柴田亨; 宫坂彻; 铃木辰磨
Original assignee: Hitachi Omron Terminal Solutions Corp
Current assignee: Hitachi Financial Systems Co.,Ltd.
Priority date: 2016-09-16
Filing date: 2017-08-10
Publication date: 2020-08-25
Anticipated expiration: 2037-08-10
Also published as: JP2018043495A; KR102001725B1; JP6680654B2; KR20180030751A; CN107833401A

Abstract

The invention provides a booklet page-turning device, a booklet processing device using the same and an automatic transaction device, which can not bend the page greatly and can turn the page correctly even if the booklet is bent. The page turning device is provided with: a conveyance guide that forms a conveyance path of the booklet by a first guide portion that presses a front cover or a back cover of the booklet and a second guide portion that presses a surface different from the first guide portion; and a conveying unit that conveys the booklet, the conveyance guide having: an opening unit that opens one surface of the conveyance path in either one of the first guide section and the second guide section; and a front end pressing unit for pressing a front end of a page of the booklet on the opening side, the booklet page turning device including a page pulling-out unit for pulling out the page of the booklet of which the front end is pressed by the front end pressing unit to an open space formed by the opening unit.

Description

Booklet page turning device, booklet processing device using the same, and automatic transaction device

Technical Field

The present invention relates to a booklet page turning device for turning pages of a booklet in a booklet handling device for handling booklets such as passbooks, and a booklet handling device and an Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) using the booklet turning device.

Background

A booklet processing device capable of printing a passbook is mounted in an automatic transaction device (ATM) capable of processing the passbook. The booklet handling device is provided with a booklet page-turning device which is an automatic page-turning mechanism. If the billing of the currently printed page is finished, the booklet page turning device automatically turns a page to the next page.

In a conventional booklet turning device for processing passbooks as in patent document 1, a page of a booklet stopped on a conveyance path of the page turning device is pushed into a booklet binding side by pressing and rotating a page turning roller, and is lifted up after being bent greatly. Then, the remaining booklet is conveyed in the opposite direction to the pushing side with the page turned up, and the page is turned.

On the other hand, a booklet page turning device as in patent document 2 is proposed in which the sheets are not bent greatly in the booklet page turning device. In this aspect, the first sheet of paper is sucked and separated from the stack of sheets of paper by the suction device using air, then the first sheet of paper is lifted up, moved in a direction in which the page is to be turned, then the air is cut off, and then the page is released to turn the page.

However, patent document 1 has a problem that if the paper rigidity of the paper as the object of turning is extremely high, the paper cannot be bent and the page cannot be turned, or the paper is folded when forcibly bent.

In the apparatus of patent document 2, since it is assumed that the booklet is aligned and the booklet is not conveyed, there is no possibility that the booklet is in a bad state such as a state in which the booklet is bent in a convex shape or a state in which the booklet is opened or closed. Therefore, there is a problem that the correct page-turning state cannot be set due to the characteristics of the booklet when the booklet is set to the apparatus.

Patent document 1: japanese patent laid-open publication No. 2013-139130

Patent document 2: japanese patent laid-open No. 2010-228351

Disclosure of Invention

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a booklet page turning device which can turn pages correctly even when the booklet is curved in a convex shape or the like, for example, without greatly bending the pages, and a booklet processing device and an automatic transaction device using the same.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides a page turning device for turning a page of a booklet, comprising: a conveyance guide that forms a conveyance path of the booklet by a first guide portion that presses a front cover or a back cover of the booklet and a second guide portion that presses a surface different from the first guide portion; and a conveying unit that conveys the booklet, the conveying guide including: an opening unit that opens one surface of the conveyance path by either one of the first guide section and the second guide section; and a front end pressing unit for pressing a front end of a page of the booklet on an opening side, the booklet page turning device including a page pulling-out unit for pulling out the page of the booklet whose front end is pressed by the front end pressing unit to an opening space formed by the opening unit.

According to the present invention, it is possible to turn a page accurately even when a booklet is bent without bending the page.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is an external view of an automatic transaction Apparatus (ATM).

Fig. 2 is a configuration diagram of the booklet handling apparatus.

Fig. 3 is a side view of the booklet turning device.

Fig. 4 is a side view of the booklet turning device when the path is opened.

Fig. 5 is an operation diagram of the booklet page turning device.

Description of reference numerals

1: automatic transaction device (ATM), 2: operation panel, 101: booklet processing apparatus, 102: insertion port, 103: conveyance path, 104: booklet reading section, 105: printing mechanism section, 106: page turning parts, 115a, 115b, 115c, 115d, 115e, 115f, 115g, 115h, 115 g: conveying roller, 113: lower conveyance guide, 114: upper conveyance guide, 116: control units, 201a, 201 b: front end pressing units, 202a, 202b, 202c, 202 d: conveying rollers, 203a, 203 b: path open guidance, 204: page pull-out unit, 205: booklet, 301a, 301 b: the page lifts the split point.

Detailed Description

Embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Fig. 1 is an automated transaction device (ATM).

As shown in fig. 1, an automatic transaction Apparatus (ATM)1 is provided with a booklet processing apparatus 101 capable of processing a booklet inserted from an insertion slot 102. The booklet processing apparatus 101 is an apparatus that reads an inserted booklet or the like and performs processing such as printing. Further, an operation panel 2 for a person to operate is provided to perform what kind of processing is performed on the booklet instruction inserted through the insertion port 102.

Fig. 2 is a configuration diagram of a booklet handling device equipped with a booklet page turning device.

As shown in fig. 2, the booklet processing device 101 is equipped with a page turning section 106 (booklet page turning device) of the present embodiment.

The booklet handling device 101 is configured to include an insertion port 102 for inserting and discharging booklets, a conveyance path 103 for conveying the booklets, a booklet reading unit 104 for reading the booklets, a printing mechanism unit 105 for printing pages of the booklets, a page turning unit 106 for turning pages of the booklets, and a control unit 107 for controlling these units. The reading of the booklet is reading of a magnetic stripe of the booklet, reading of a barcode, reading of an image of the booklet, or the like.

The insertion port 102 is provided on the front side of the housing of the booklet handling device 101, and is provided with a sensor, not shown, for detecting that a booklet is loaded. The booklet is, for example, a stack of sheets in which a plurality of sheets are bound, and since the cover sheet and the back sheet are thick, the booklet is hard (high rigidity), and a soft (low rigidity) sheet is used between the cover sheet and the back sheet.

The conveyance path 103 includes a lower conveyance guide 113 (first guide) and an upper conveyance guide 114 (second guide) for guiding the booklet between the insertion port 102 and the page turning unit 106. The conveyance path 103 includes a plurality of conveyance rollers 115a to 115h that convey the booklet.

The

conveyance rollers

115a and 115b are disposed to face each other in the vertical direction, and the

conveyance rollers

115c and 115d are disposed to face each other in the vertical direction. The booklet reading portion 104 is provided between the

conveying rollers

115a, 115b and the

conveying rollers

115c, 115 d.

The

conveyance rollers

115e and 115f are disposed to face each other in the vertical direction, and the conveyance rollers 115g and 115h are disposed to face each other in the vertical direction. A printing mechanism 105 is provided between the

conveyance rollers

115e and 115f and the conveyance rollers 115g and 115 h.

The

conveyance rollers

115b, 115d, 115f, and 115h are driving rollers, and the

conveyance rollers

115a, 115c, 115e, and 115g on the driven side are configured to be in pressing contact with the

conveyance rollers

115b, 115d, 115f, and 115 h.

In the booklet handling apparatus 101, the booklet inserted from the insertion port 102 is conveyed by conveying

rollers

115a, 115c, 115e, and 115g, and delivered to the booklet page turning apparatus 106.

Fig. 3 is a side view of the booklet turning device.

As shown in fig. 3, a booklet page turning device is configured between two sets of

rollers

202a, 202b, 202c, 202d configured by a pair of roller shafts facing each other for conveying the booklet 205. One of the rollers of the respective

conveying roller pairs

202a, 202b, 202c, and 202d serves as a driving roller to which a driving force is applied by a motor or the like. Further, a pressing force is applied to one of the rollers by a spring or the like, and the other roller is pressed against the other roller. The surface of these conveying rollers has a rubber-like elastic layer. By the deformation of the elastic layer of the roller and the operation of the roller pressed by the spring or the like, the booklet can be stably conveyed even if the booklet has different thicknesses.

The distance W1 between the

roller pairs

202a and 202b, and the

roller pairs

202c and 202d is set to be shorter than the width W2 of the conveyed booklet 205 in the conveying direction by about several millimeters to several tens of millimeters (about 5 to 15 mm), and the booklet is always sandwiched by either roller pair, and can be conveyed at any position in the conveying path of the apparatus.

When the booklet 205 is conveyed to the page turning predetermined position (illustrated position), the booklet is conveyed in the booklet conveying path 103, and the booklet conveying path 103 is formed by the lower conveying guide 113, the leading

end pressing units

201a and 201b for pressing the leading end of the booklet opening side, and the

path opening guides

203a and 203b capable of opening 1 surface of the conveying path. In the present embodiment, the leading end pressing unit for pressing the leading end of the booklet opening side is used as the upper side conveyance guide in order to reduce the number of components and the apparatus cost, but the upper side conveyance guide may be provided separately from the leading end pressing unit.

The page turning predetermined position referred to here is a state in which the binding side of the booklet 205 is nipped by one of the conveying roller pairs and the booklet 205 is not nipped by the other roller pair, and the leading end of the opened side of the booklet is positioned below the leading end pressing unit 201b for pressing the leading end of the opened side of the booklet (see fig. b). When the booklet 205 conveyed to the page turning predetermined position is bent, the open side front end of the booklet 205 comes into contact with the upper side conveyance guide 201b as shown in fig. 3.

Here, it is important to correctly convey the booklet 205 to the page turning predetermined position for stably turning the pages. Therefore, in order to correctly convey the booklet 205 to the page turning prescribed position, a booklet position detection unit may be provided. The booklet position detection means detects the position of the booklet, and controls the

conveying rollers

202a, 202b, 202c, and 202d based on this information to convey the booklet 205, thereby improving the stability of the page turning operation.

In addition, a page drawing-out unit 204 that draws out a booklet cover page from the conveying path 103 is provided in the booklet page turning device. The page drawing unit can be moved up and down by a drive source not shown, and when the page is drawn out, the page drawing unit is lowered toward the booklet 205, and comes into contact with the booklet 205 to generate a suction force. As a method for generating the suction force, a method such as negative pressure, sticking, or static electricity is preferably used, and on/off of the suction force can be controlled. When the on/off control of the suction force is not possible, it is necessary to provide a means for generating the suction force and a means for removing the suction force.

Also, the booklet page-turning device is left-right symmetrical in shape, so that the page can be turned in either one of the forward and reverse directions.

Fig. 4 is a side view of the booklet turning device when the path is opened.

As shown in fig. 4, when the page is turned, the path opening guides 203a and 203b are moved in the inner direction of the distal

end pressing units

201a and 201b by a driving source not shown. By this operation, the upper surface of the conveyance path is opened, and a page turning space is secured. At this time, the path opening guides 203a and 203b move in the conveying direction of the booklet 205 as shown in fig. 3, thereby opening the upper surface of the path. In this way, the path opening guides 203a and 203b are formed in a gate shape and move in the conveying direction of the booklet 205, thereby ensuring a large page turning space without hindering the page turning operation. By this operation, the tip

end pressing units

201a and 201b are exposed to the page turning space and are exposed (see fig. b).

When the booklet 205 is curved, the front

end pressing units

201a and 201b are arranged such that the front end of the lower surface (the surface on the conveying path side) is located inward of the nip point of the conveying roller pair by a length D1 of about 15 to 20mm in order to press the front end portion of the booklet. In the present embodiment, the lift-off separation points 301a and 301b are provided above the leading end of the lower surface (the surface on the conveying path side) (obliquely above the page turning space side), and the leading

end pressing units

201a and 201b are formed in such a shape as to be inclined from the lift-off separation points 301a and 301b toward the conveying path surface so that the opening interval D2, which is the interval between the lift-off separation point 301a and the lift-off separation point 301b, is slightly widened. That is, the lift-off points 301a and 301b are shaped to protrude toward the page turning space side from the tip of the lower surface (the surface on the conveying path side), and a slope portion S1 is formed between the tip of the lower surface (the surface on the conveying path side) and the lift-off points 301a and 301 b.

When the sheet is lifted, the front end of the sheet is lifted so as to rub against the inclined portion S1, whereby the separation of the cover sheet from the next sheet can be further stabilized. In this way, in the embodiment, in order to reduce the number of components and the apparatus cost, the page holding and separating member is provided which can hold the page lifted by the page lifting unit 204 and also serves as a separating unit for separating the page from the remaining booklet.

Further, it is preferable that the height of the lift-off and separation points 301a and 301b from the conveyance path surface is about 5mm higher than the lower surfaces (conveyance path side surfaces) of the front

end pressing units

201a and 201b, so that the booklet 205 can be reliably separated even when it is curved.

In the present embodiment, the inclined portion S2 is formed so that the page turning space is expanded upward in order to allow the tip

end pressing units

201a and 201b to serve as a guide for turning the page during the page turning operation. In the page turning operation, the inclined portion S2 carries the page pulled out by the page pulling unit 204 and conveys the page to the booklet opening side, thereby turning the page. Therefore, from the viewpoint of preventing the sheet from being entangled, the inclination angle of the inclined portion S2 of the tip end pressing means 201a, 201b is preferably about 45 to 60 degrees in order to prevent the upper side conveying roller from being exposed in the page turning space and to turn the sheet smoothly. As described above, the front

end pressing units

201a, 201b of the present embodiment are page holding and separating members that can hold a page lifted by the page pulling-out unit, and also serve as a separating unit for separating from the remaining booklet, and have a shape of "く".

Next, the page turning operation sequence of the passbook cover will be described with reference to (a) to (F) of fig. 5 as appropriate.

First, as shown in fig. 5(a), the booklet 205 inserted from the insertion port 102 of the booklet handling device 101 is conveyed to the page turning predetermined position on the conveyance path 103 by the

conveyance rollers

202a, 202b, 202c, and 202d, and stopped.

Next, as shown in fig. 5(B), the path opening guides 203a and 203B are moved in the sheet conveying direction by a driving source (not shown) to secure a page turning space.

Then, as shown in fig. 5(C), the page pulling-out unit 204 is moved in the conveying surface direction by a driving source (not shown) and brought into contact with the booklet 205. Further, an attracting force is generated to the cover sheet.

Thereafter, as shown in fig. 5(D), the page drawing-out unit 204 holds the cover sheet of the booklet 205 by the generated suction force, and moves the page drawing-out unit 204 in the direction opposite to the conveying surface, thereby lifting up the cover sheet of the booklet 205. At this time, the leading end of the page is lifted up to a position higher than the page separation points 301a and 301 b.

Then, as shown in fig. 5(E), the suction force of the page pull-out unit 204 is released. At this time, when the suction force is released, the lifted page is carried by the

tip pressing units

201a and 201b also serving as page separating units. Then, the remaining booklet 205 is conveyed to the booklet opening side by the conveying

rollers

202a, 202b with the pages carried on the front

end pressing units

201a, 201b unchanged.

Finally, as shown in fig. 5(F), the conveyance to the booklet opening side with respect to the booklet 205 is continued by the

conveyance rollers

202a, 202b and 202c, 202d, whereby the pages carried on the leading

end pressing units

201a, 201b are turned over, and the page turning of the booklet 205 is ended.

Here, as shown in fig. 3, since the booklet page turning device has a bilaterally symmetrical configuration, it is possible to turn the pages in the opposite direction to the page turning direction shown in fig. 5 by performing the same operation.

As described above, in the present embodiment, the page turning unit 106 constituting the page turning device for turning a booklet includes: a conveyance guide for forming a conveyance path 103 of the booklet by pressing a lower conveyance guide 113 or an upper conveyance guide 114, which is a first guide portion of a front cover or a back cover of the booklet, and an upper conveyance guide 114 or a lower conveyance guide 113, which is a second guide portion pressing a surface different from the first guide portion; and a conveying unit, not shown, for conveying the booklet, the conveying guide including path opening guides 203a and 203b as opening means for opening one surface of the conveying path by either the first guide portion or the second guide portion, and front end pressing means 201a and 201b as front end pressing means for pressing a front end of a page of the booklet on the opening side, and the page turning unit 106 includes a pull-out means 204 for pulling out the page of the booklet whose front end is pressed by the front end pressing means to a page turning space as an open space formed by the opening means by the pull-out means 204. Therefore, the page is not bent greatly, and the page can be turned correctly even when the book is bent in a convex shape or the like, for example.

Further, since the opening unit is a door movable in the conveying direction of the booklet, a space for opening and closing the door is not required and the opening unit has a compact structure, as compared with the case of an opening and closing type door that opens and closes in a direction other than the conveying direction.

Further, the front end pressing unit includes a page holding and separating member that is a page holding and separating unit that holds the page lifted by the page lifting unit and also serves as a separating unit that separates the held page from a remaining booklet constituted by pages other than the page.

Further, the holding and separating section has a lifting and separating point which protrudes toward the open space and separates the lifted page from the remaining booklet, and therefore, the pages can be reliably separated at the separating point formed in the holding and separating section having various shapes.

Further, since the holding and separating section has a shape of "く" inclined in the vertical direction of the lift-off and separation point, the page holding and the page separation after the separation can be reliably realized by one member.

The booklet handling apparatus 101 is applicable to a booklet handling apparatus 101 including at least one of the page turning device described above, a printing mechanism unit including a booklet printer or the like for printing predetermined information on a page of a booklet, and a booklet reading unit including a booklet scanner or the like for reading the printed predetermined information, and a booklet conveying unit including a conveying roller and a conveying motor for conveying the booklet to the page turning device. In this case, the booklet handling device can obtain the same effect as that obtained by the page turning device.

The present invention can also be applied to an automatic transaction Apparatus (ATM) including the booklet handling apparatus described above, and an operation panel 2 as an operation unit configured by a touch panel that receives an instruction to execute a process related to the booklet in the booklet handling apparatus. In this case, the Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) can obtain the same effects as those obtained by the page turning device and the booklet handling device.

That is, the sheet pull-out unit that pulls out the booklet cover sheet from the conveying path by generating adhesion to the cover sheet can separate the page turns without largely bending the page. Thereafter, the separated page is turned by conveying the booklet, thereby turning the page.

Further, the path opening guide that can open one side of the conveyance path is provided on the conveyance guide, and thus, even when the booklet is in a bad state, such as a state in which the booklet is curved in a convex shape or a state in which the booklet is stuck with open or closed characters, the booklet can be accurately set at the position for turning the pages. Further, the front end pressing means for pressing the front end of the opened side of the booklet can appropriately secure the state of the booklet for turning the pages at the stage of opening the upper surface of the booklet and turning the pages by the path opening guide.

As described above, it is possible to provide a booklet page turning device which can turn pages without greatly bending the pages with a simple configuration and even in the case where the booklet is in a bad state (the booklet is bent in a convex state or in a state with opening or closing difficulty, etc.), and a booklet processing device and an Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) using the booklet page turning device.

The scope of the present invention is not limited to these examples, and various modifications can be made within the scope of the claims.

Claims

1. A booklet page-turning device that turns over a page of a booklet, characterized by comprising:

a conveyance guide that forms a conveyance path of the booklet by a first guide portion that presses a front cover or a back cover of the booklet and a second guide portion that presses a surface different from the first guide portion; and

a conveying unit that conveys the booklet,

the conveyance guide includes: an opening unit that is movable in a conveyance direction of the booklet at any one of the first guide portion and the second guide portion to open one surface of the conveyance path; and

a front end pressing unit for pressing a front end of an open side of a page of the booklet,

the booklet page-turning device includes a page drawing unit that draws a page of the booklet whose front end is pressed by the front end pressing unit to an open space formed by the opening unit by adsorbing the page by an adsorption force generated by negative pressure, adhesion, or static electricity,

the opening unit moves in the conveying direction until the front end pressing unit is exposed in the opening space,

the page drawing unit can perform on/off control of the suction force,

the tip end pressing unit has a shape of "く" inclined in the vertical direction at the tip end.

2. The booklet turning device according to claim 1,

the front end pressing unit includes a page holding and separating unit that holds the page lifted by the page lifting unit and also serves as a separating unit that separates the held page from a remaining booklet formed by pages other than the page.

3. The booklet turning device according to claim 2,

the page holding/separating unit has a lift-off/separating point that protrudes toward the open space and separates the lifted-off page from the remaining booklet.

4. A booklet handling device characterized in that,

comprising: a booklet turning device according to any one of claims 1 to 3;

at least either a printing mechanism part for printing predetermined information on a page of the booklet or a booklet reading part for reading the printed predetermined information,

the booklet conveying unit is also provided for delivering the booklet to the booklet page turning device.

5. An automatic transaction device, comprising:

the booklet handling apparatus of claim 4; and

an operation part for making the booklet processing device accept the execution of the processing related to the booklet.