CN113971856A - Paper money management device and method - Google Patents

Abstract

Provided are a banknote management device and method capable of improving the convenience and reliability of use. A banknote management device (11) is a banknote management device for managing banknotes loaded into an automatic transaction device (21), acquires serial number information, which is serial numbers of all banknotes included in a bundle of banknotes, from a banknote classification device (13) for creating a predetermined number of bundles of banknotes (3), stores the serial number information in a first database (14) capable of specifying the serial numbers of the banknotes of each bundle of banknotes, specifies the serial numbers of all banknotes of the bundle of banknotes loaded into a banknote cassette (25) of the automatic transaction device, stores the specified serial numbers in a second database (15) for managing the serial numbers of the banknotes in the banknote cassette, and updates the second database by acquiring update information from the automatic transaction device, the update information including the serial numbers of the banknotes deposited in and dispensed from the banknote cassette by a transaction in the automatic transaction device.

Description

Paper money management device and method

Technical Field

The invention relates to a banknote management device and a method.

Background

The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for managing banknotes in an automated facility under management in a bank headquarters, a cash center, and the like.

An Automated Teller Machine (ATM) installed in a financial department or a store is replenished with banknotes from a bank head office or a cash center of a bank at a predetermined timing, for example, when banknotes held in the ATM are equal to or less than a predetermined amount due to withdrawal of cash (banknotes) by a user performing a transaction.

There are times when there are more deposit transactions than withdrawal transactions. In this case, even if the amount of banknotes in the ATM is maintained at a predetermined amount or more, in order to maintain the normality of management, the banknotes in the ATM are temporarily collected, and another newly prepared banknote is loaded into the ATM. When a banknote is collected from an ATM and a new banknote is prepared, the banknote loaded into the ATM can be strictly managed using each serial number (serial number) attached to the banknote (patent document 1).

Documents of the prior art

Patent document

Patent document 1: japanese patent laid-open publication No. 2015-

Disclosure of Invention

Problems to be solved by the invention

In the above-mentioned patent document 1, the serial numbers of the respective banknotes are read at the bank headquarters or the cash center and are collectively managed by the management code. In patent document 1, when preparing for carrying out banknotes under management, the serial number of the banknote is determined based on the management code. However, patent document 1 does not mention that bills in a repeatedly used bill box are always accurately managed, and there is room for improvement in terms of convenience of use and reliability.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a banknote management apparatus and method that can improve the ease of use and reliability.

Means for solving the problems

In order to solve the above-described problems, a banknote management apparatus according to the present invention is a banknote management apparatus that manages banknotes loaded into an automated teller machine, wherein serial number information, which is serial numbers of all banknotes included in a bundle of banknotes, is acquired from a banknote sorting apparatus that creates a predetermined number of bundles of banknotes, the serial number information is stored in a first database that can specify the serial numbers of the banknotes in each bundle of banknotes, the serial numbers of all banknotes of the bundle of banknotes loaded into a banknote cassette of the automated teller machine are specified, the specified serial numbers are stored in a second database that manages the serial numbers of the banknotes in the banknote cassette, and update information including the serial numbers of the banknotes deposited and dispensed into and from the banknote cassette by a transaction in the automated teller machine is acquired from the automated teller machine, thereby updating the second database.

Effects of the invention

According to the present invention, banknotes in a banknote cassette installed in an automatic transaction apparatus can be managed.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic view of the entire banknote management system including the banknote management device according to the present embodiment.

Fig. 2 is a configuration diagram of a banknote management system.

Fig. 3 is a configuration diagram of an automatic transaction Apparatus (ATM).

Fig. 4 is a configuration diagram of a banknote sorting apparatus with a bundling function.

Fig. 5 is an example of the serial number management database.

Fig. 6 is an example of printing a two-dimensional code on paper bundled in a bundle of banknotes.

Fig. 7 is an example of the contents of the two-dimensional code.

Fig. 8 is an explanatory diagram showing a method of recording serial numbers when a bundle of banknotes is loaded in a banknote cassette.

Fig. 9 is an example of the in-box banknote management database.

Fig. 10 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of updating the in-box bill management database based on a transaction in the ATM.

Fig. 11 is an example of the in-box banknote management database.

Fig. 12 is an explanatory diagram showing another example of updating the in-box bill management database based on transactions in the ATM.

Fig. 13 is an example of the in-box banknote management database corresponding to fig. 12.

Fig. 14 is a flowchart showing a process in a case where the in-box banknote management database does not match the update information from the ATM.

Fig. 15 is an explanatory diagram showing an example in which the database does not match the update information.

Fig. 16 is an explanatory diagram showing another example in which the database does not match the update information.

Fig. 17 is an explanatory diagram showing a case where the database is corrected when the database does not match the update information.

Fig. 18 is an explanatory diagram of a configuration for detecting and outputting the use status of banknotes in the banknote cassette.

Description of the reference numerals

1: banknote management system, 3: bundled banknotes, 4: two-dimensional code, 10: management service area, 11: banknote management device, 12: two-dimensional code reader, 13: banknote sorting device with bundling function, 14: serial number management database, 15: in-box banknote management database, 20: transaction service area, 21: ATM, 111: in-box banknote management unit, 112: serial number information acquisition unit, 113: a deposit and withdrawal information acquisition unit.

Detailed Description

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. The banknote management device of the present embodiment is a recycling type banknote management system that fills and recycles banknotes in a banknote cassette collected from an ATM, and can accurately manage the banknotes in the banknote cassette without checking all the banknotes in the banknote cassette by a banknote sorting device.

The banknote management system 1 includes, for example, an automatic transaction apparatus (hereinafter also referred to as an ATM)21, a banknote management apparatus 11, and a banknote classification apparatus 13, wherein the banknote classification apparatus 13 creates a bundle of banknotes 3 of a predetermined number, and transmits serial number information of all banknotes of the bundle of banknotes 3 to the banknote management apparatus 11, the banknote management apparatus 11 stores the serial number information of the banknotes transmitted from the banknote classification apparatus 13 in a serial number management database 14 as a "first database", and stores the serial number information of the bundle of banknotes 3 loaded in a banknote cassette 25 of the automatic transaction apparatus 21 in an in-cassette banknote management database 15 as a "second database", the automatic transaction apparatus 21 transmits the serial number information of the banknotes deposited and dispensed by the transaction to the banknote management apparatus 11, and the banknote management apparatus 11 performs the transaction based on the serial number information of the banknotes transmitted from the automatic transaction apparatus 21, The in-box banknote management database 15 is updated with serial number information of banknotes that are paid in and out through transactions.

In the following description, the banknote cassette may be abbreviated as a cassette, the serial number management database may be abbreviated as a serial number database, and the in-cassette banknote management database may be abbreviated as an in-cassette banknote database. In the figure, the database is abbreviated as DB.

Fig. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing an overall outline of a banknote management system 1 including a banknote management device 11 according to the present embodiment. Fig. 1 discloses a configuration showing an example of the present embodiment. The present embodiment may include the configuration shown in fig. 1.

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

As shown in the system configuration diagram of fig. 2, for example, a banknote management device 11, a two-dimensional code reader 12, a banknote sorting device with bundling function 13, a serial number management database 14, and an in-box banknote management database 15 are disposed in a management service area 10, and one or a plurality of ATMs 21 are disposed in a transaction service area 20. The administrative business area 10 is, for example, a head office of a bank or a cash center. The transaction area 20 is, for example, a branch of a bank, a commercial facility, a station, an airport, or the like.

Referring back to fig. 1, the functional configuration and the processing of the banknote management system 1 will be described in brief. The banknote management device 11 may include, for example, an in-box banknote management unit 111, a serial number information acquisition unit 112, and a deposit and withdrawal information acquisition unit 113.

The bundling-function banknote sorting apparatus 13 creates a bundle of banknotes 3 in which, for example, a predetermined number of banknotes, such as 100 banknotes, are bundled together (S1).

The in-box banknote management section 111 has a function of managing the number, type, and serial number of banknotes in the banknote box 25. The serial number information acquiring unit 112 acquires the serial number of the bundle of banknotes detected by the banknote sorting apparatus with bundling function 13 (S2), and stores the serial number in the serial number management database 14 (S3).

On the other hand, the bundle of banknotes 3 produced by the banknote sorting apparatus with bundling function 13 is unpacked by an operator or a robot (not shown) and loaded into the banknote cassette 25 (S4). When a predetermined number of banknotes constituting the bundle of banknotes 3 are loaded into the banknote cassette 25, the two-dimensional code 4 printed on the bundle of labels bundling the bundle of banknotes 3 is read by the two-dimensional code reader (S5) and is input to the in-cassette banknote management section 111. A detailed example of the two-dimensional code 4 will be described later with reference to fig. 7. The two-dimensional code 4 contains at least the serial number of the leading banknote of the bundle of banknotes 3.

In the present embodiment, the two-dimensional code 4 as an example of the "bundle banknote information" is printed on the surface of the paper sheets bundled with the bundle banknotes 3, for example. Instead of the two-dimensional code, an RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tag may be attached to the bundle of banknotes 3. In this case, the two-dimensional code reader 12 is replaced with an RFID tag reader.

The in-box banknote management section 111 calculates the serial numbers and the order of the banknotes loaded into the respective banknote boxes 25 based on the serial number information of the bundle of banknotes in units obtained from the bundling-function banknote sorting device 13 and the serial number of the leading banknote of the bundle of banknotes 3 obtained from the two-dimensional code reader 12, and stores the calculation results in the in-box banknote management database 15 (S6).

The banknote cassette 25 filled with banknotes is transported and attached to each ATM21 of the transaction area 20 by the operator (S7). Each ATM21 makes a deposit or withdrawal in accordance with the customer's request. The deposit and withdrawal information as "update information" is transmitted from the ATM21 to the deposit and withdrawal information acquisition unit 113.

The deposit and withdrawal information acquisition unit 113 acquires deposit and withdrawal information of the banknotes in the banknote cassette 25 from each ATM21, and notifies the in-cassette banknote management unit 111 (S8).

The in-box banknote management unit 111 updates the in-box banknote management database 15 based on the deposit and withdrawal information acquired by the deposit and withdrawal information acquisition unit 113 from the ATM21 and the serial number management database 14 (S9).

The in-box banknote management section 111 compares the deposit and withdrawal information with the contents stored in the in-box banknote management database 15, and when the deposit and withdrawal information and the contents stored in the in-box banknote management database 15 do not match each other, can correct the contents stored in the in-box banknote management database 15 based on a predetermined condition.

For example, when the number of banknotes whose serial numbers in the deposit and withdrawal information do not match the serial numbers stored in the in-box banknote management database 15 is equal to or less than a predetermined value, the in-box banknote management section 111 determines that a plurality of banknotes are simultaneously taken out of the banknote box 25 in an overlapped manner and that the remaining banknotes are rejected and collected, and updates the storage content of the in-box banknote management database 15 so that the deposit and withdrawal information matches the storage content of the in-box banknote management database 15.

For example, when the in-box banknote management database 15 stores a plurality of serial numbers in the reverse order from the order of the plurality of serial numbers stored in the in-box banknote management database 15 in the in-box banknote management section 111, it is determined that the bundle of banknotes corresponding to the plurality of banknotes stored in the in-box banknote management database 15 in the reverse order are loaded in the banknote box 25 with the banknotes turned upside down, and the storage content of the in-box banknote management database 15 is updated so that the in-box banknote management information matches the storage content of the in-box banknote management database 15.

The banknote management apparatus 11 may acquire the serial numbers of the banknotes remaining in the banknote cassette 25 collected from the ATM21 by the bundling-function banknote sorting apparatus 13, compare the serial numbers of the banknotes remaining in the collected banknote cassette 25 with the contents stored in the in-cassette banknote management database 15, and output the comparison result.

According to the present embodiment configured as described above, banknotes in ATMs of respective bank branch lines are prepared at a bank head office (or a cash center, etc.) and banknotes in each ATM (banknotes in a box) can be strictly managed in real time in a consistent manner until a banknote box is collected after a predetermined period. Thus, according to the present embodiment, since the excess and deficiency of banknotes can be grasped in real time, cash management including replenishment and collection of banknotes can be accurately and efficiently performed.

[ example 1 ]

The first embodiment will be described with reference to fig. 2 to 18. Fig. 2 is an overall configuration diagram of the banknote management system 1. A plurality of ATMs (No. 1 to No. n machines) are installed in a bank branch as the transaction area 20. A bank head office (or a cash center, hereinafter referred to as a head office or the like) serving as the management business area 10 supplies cash (banknotes, coins) to each bank branch office as necessary, and collects cash that is not necessary any more and cash for replacement. The head office and the like are provided with a bill management device 11 having a two-dimensional code reader 12, a bundling-function bill sorting device 13 for sorting bills, a serial number management database 14, and an in-box bill management database 15.

The bill management device 11 includes a two-dimensional code reader 12. The banknote management device 11 is connected to a banknote sorting device with a bundling function 13, a serial number management database 14, and an in-box banknote management database 15 via a communication line, and transmits and receives necessary information. The bill management device 11 is also connected to the ATM21 of the bank branch line under the control via the communication line CN, and transmits and receives necessary information.

The banknote sorting apparatus with bundling function 13 is connected to the banknote management apparatus 11 and the serial number management database 14 via a communication line, and transmits and receives necessary information.

The ATM21 includes, for example, a touch panel for a customer to perform a transaction operation, insertion and discharge ports for passbooks and bank cards, and deposit and withdrawal ports for banknotes and coins. The ATM21 includes a banknote processing unit 22 for performing deposit and withdrawal processing of banknotes, a coin processing unit 23 for performing deposit and withdrawal processing of coins, a bankbook/bank card processing unit (not shown), a control unit 24 for controlling operations of the respective units and performing communication with the outside, and the like.

Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram showing an internal configuration of the bill handling section 22 of the ATM 21. The bill deposit and withdrawal port 26 is a port which communicates with a deposit and withdrawal port (not shown) of the apparatus main body of the ATM21 and through which a customer deposits or withdraws bills, and is opened and closed by a shutter or the like.

The bill discriminating section 27 discriminates the denomination and authenticity of the bill. The temporary storage unit 28 temporarily stores banknotes for deposit in order to check the amount of the banknotes for deposit, for example. The temporary storage unit 28 can also be referred to as a temporary storage 28. The banknote cassettes 25(#1) to 25(#3) store banknotes by banknote type, and are a recycling library capable of storing and feeding banknotes. The banknote cassette 25 can be removed and transported. One of the banknote cassettes 25 (e.g., the left end facing fig. 3) may also be used as a reject cassette 25R dedicated to accommodation. Among the banknotes to be deposited, the reject box 25R contains banknotes and the like that are damaged and identified as unsuitable for dispensing.

The control unit 29 controls the operation of the banknote processing unit 22, and has a function of enabling communication with the banknote management device 11 provided in the head office or the like in cooperation with the control unit 24 of the device main body of the ATM 21. For example, the control unit 29 can detect serial number information and the like for each banknote that enters and exits each banknote cassette 25 in the deposit transaction and the withdrawal transaction, and can notify the banknote management apparatus 11 of the serial number information and the like.

Fig. 4 is a schematic configuration diagram of the banknote sorting apparatus 13 with a bundling function. The banknote sorting apparatus with bundling function 13 includes, for example, a deposit section 131, a discriminating section 132, a plurality of separating ports 133, a return section 134, a bundling section with printing function 135, and a paper feed cassette mounting section 136.

The banknote sorting apparatus 13 with a bundling function sorts banknotes placed in the deposit unit 131 based on the result of discrimination by the discriminator 132 and a predetermined rule, and stores the sorted banknotes in the separation ports 133. The separation port 133 has an open structure, and allows a worker to take out bills from the outside. The banknotes discriminated as being out of the sort target by the discriminating section 132 are returned to the operator from the return port 134.

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

The bill box mounting unit 136 mounts the bill box 25 of the ATM 21. Instead of depositing money from the deposit unit 131, banknotes can be fed from the banknote cassette 25 attached to the paper feed cassette attachment unit 136.

In order to prepare banknotes to be stored in the banknote cassette 25 of the ATM21, the banknote sorting apparatus with bundling function 13 creates a bundle of banknotes 3 of 100 sheets as a predetermined number of banknotes. When the bundle of banknotes 3 is created, the serial numbers of the 100 banknotes are read and recorded in the serial number management database 14 in the format shown in fig. 5. That is, the serial number management database 14 manages serial numbers for each bundle of banknotes having a predetermined number of banknotes.

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

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

The banknote bundle 3 of 100 units, which is created as described above and manages serial number information of all banknotes, is used to load banknotes into the banknote cassette 25 of the ATM. The staff at the headquarters or the like loads the necessary number of banknotes into each banknote box 25 in each ATM21 at each bank branch. For example, when 300 banknotes of 1 ten thousand dollar are loaded into the banknote cassette 25#1 of the ATM1 # machine in the Y branch line, three bundles of 1 ten dollar banknotes are prepared in the empty banknote cassette 25, and the banknotes from which the bundle labels are removed are sequentially loaded into the banknote cassette 25.

Fig. 8 shows a state where bills are loaded into the bill box 25. Fig. 8 shows a case where a bundle of banknotes 3A composed of 100 banknotes in total with serial numbers a0000 to a0099, a bundle of banknotes 3B composed of 100 banknotes in total with serial numbers B0000 to B0099, and a bundle of banknotes 3C composed of 100 banknotes in total with serial numbers C0000 to C0099 are loaded into the banknote cassette 25 of the ATM21 in the order of the bundle of banknotes 3A, 3B, and 3C.

When the banknotes are loaded into the cassette 25, the two-dimensional code reader 12 reads the two-dimensional code 4 recorded in each bundle, and the banknote management device 11 can recognize the serial numbers of all the banknotes constituting the bundle of banknotes. Then, the banknote management apparatus 11 registers the serial numbers of the recognized banknotes in the banknote cassette 25 in the cassette banknote management database 15.

That is, the staff member reads the two-dimensional code 4 recorded in each bundle label using the two-dimensional code reader 12 of the bill management device 11. The banknote management device 11 recognizes the serial number of the leading banknote of the bundle of banknotes 3 from the read two-dimensional code, and searches the serial number management database 14 for the same serial number. Thus, the banknote management device 11 can recognize the serial numbers of the remaining 99 banknotes after the leading banknote, and can specify the serial numbers of 100 banknotes in the bundle of banknotes. The determined serial number is registered with the in-box banknote management database 15.

Fig. 9 shows a state in which serial numbers are registered in the in-box banknote management database 15 in the above-described order. In this example, 300 ten thousand dollars are shown to be loaded into the 1 st box among the banknote boxes held by the Y branch ATM 1.

Hereinafter, similarly, the serial numbers of all the banknotes loaded into the banknote cassette 25 of another ATM21, the banknote cassette 25 of another ATM, and the banknote cassette 25 held by another ATM are also registered in advance in the in-cassette banknote management database 15.

In this manner, the banknote management apparatus 11 of the present embodiment can manage serial number information for all banknotes in all the banknote cassettes 25 in all the ATMs in all the branch lines. Alternatively, the banknote management apparatus 11 may manage banknotes in the above-described cassette unit only for a specific ATM of a specific branch line to be managed.

When the bundle of banknotes 3 is loaded into the cassette 25, if the upper surface and the lower surface are loaded in reverse, the sequence of the serial numbers in the cassette 25 is reverse to the sequence of the serial numbers registered in the cassette banknote management database 15. However, the banknote management apparatus 11 of the present embodiment can detect an abnormality in the transaction of the ATM21 when the banknotes of the bundle of banknotes 3 are loaded upside down, and can correct the arrangement of the serial numbers stored in the database 15 when updating the in-box banknote management database 15. The details of which will be described later.

Next, a method of updating in real time the in-box banknote management database 15 in which detailed information of banknotes in each banknote box 25 is registered when the banknote box 25 is loaded with banknotes as described above will be described.

Here, a case where a deposit transaction of 31 ten thousand bills (3 ten thousand dollars) is performed in an ATM1 machine in the Y branch bank will be described as an example. In this case, the banknote cassette 25(#1) described with reference to fig. 9 stores banknotes for deposit.

A customer who performs a deposit transaction performs operations such as insertion of a bank card, personal authentication, and transaction selection in the ATM21 shown in fig. 3 in accordance with guidance of an operation screen, and then deposits banknotes (here, 31 ten thousand dollar banknotes) into the banknote deposit and withdrawal port 26.

The ATM21 sends out these banknotes from the deposit and withdrawal port 26, and the banknote discriminating unit 27 discriminates the authenticity, denomination, and serial number of the banknotes, and stores them in the temporary storage unit 28. The bill discriminating unit 27 recognizes the first bill as "genuine bill/ten thousand yuan/serial number M0000", the second bill as "genuine bill/ten thousand yuan/serial number M0001", and the third bill as "genuine bill/ten thousand yuan/serial number M0002", and the 3 recognized bills are stored in the temporary storage unit 28.

The ATM21 displays "payment amount: 3 ten thousand yuan? "the customer inputs" yes (OK) "on the customer operation screen after confirming that the amount of money deposited matches the amount recognized by the ATM 21. Thus, the ATM21 stores the 3 banknotes stored in the temporary storage 28 in the banknote cassette 25(# 1).

Since the normal temporary storage portion 28 is fed first from the last stored banknote, it is fed in the order of the third banknote (serial number M0002) → the second banknote (serial number M0001) → the first banknote (serial number M0000), and stored in the banknote cassette 25(#1) from above in this order. This situation is shown in fig. 10.

The control unit 22 of the ATM21 (here, machine No. 1) recognizes that the banknote storage state in the banknote cassette 25(#1) has changed due to the transaction, and transmits the information to the banknote management apparatus 11 such as the head office. That is, update information indicating that 31 ten thousand banknotes having serial numbers "M0002", "M0001", and "M0000" are added to the banknote cassette 25(#1) in accordance with the deposit transaction by the customer at the ATM21 is transmitted to the banknote management apparatus 11.

As shown in fig. 11, when receiving the update information from the ATM21, the banknote management apparatus 11 updates the contents stored in the in-box banknote management database 15. In the in-box banknote management database 15 of fig. 10, the number of banknotes is updated from "300" to "303", and "M0002", "M0001", and "M0000" are additionally recorded as serial number information.

In the present embodiment, the banknote management device 11 installed in the head office or the like remotely manages the number of banknotes and the serial numbers in the banknote cassettes 25 of the respective ATMs 21 in real time, but the present invention is not limited thereto, and the number of banknotes and the serial numbers in the banknote cassettes 25 may also be managed in real time in the respective ATMs 21. The bill management device 11 may manage all the bill boxes 25 of the ATM21 to be managed, or may manage only some of the bill boxes.

Next, a method of updating the in-box banknote management database 15 in real time in the dispensing transaction will be described. The following description will take an example in which a 3 ten-thousand dollar withdrawal transaction is performed at an ATM1 in the Y branch bank. At this time, 31 ten thousand banknotes are fed from the banknote cassette 25(#1) described with reference to fig. 9 and dispensed.

A customer who performs a dispensing transaction performs operations such as insertion of a bank card, personal authentication, and input of a dispensing amount in the ATM21 shown in fig. 3, in accordance with guidance of an operation screen. The ATM21 thus feeds out 3 banknotes of 1 ten thousand dollar stored in the banknote cassette 25(#1) from the upper portion, and the banknote classification section 27 confirms that the banknotes of 1 ten thousand dollar (correct 1 ten thousand dollar genuine banknotes without damage or the like) are deliverable to the customer, and transports the banknotes to the banknote deposit and withdrawal port 26. This situation is shown in fig. 12.

Before dispensing, 31 ten thousand banknotes (3 banknotes having serial numbers "C0000", "C0001", and "C0002" from the top) on the upper side of the banknote cassette 25(#1) are fed out. After the withdrawal, the 1 ten-thousand sheaf of serial number "C0003" came to the top, and the total number was 297. The discriminator 27 recognizes the serial number of the banknote fed out from the banknote cassette 25(#1), and the control unit of the ATM21 transmits the number of 1 ten thousand dollar banknotes (3) fed out from the banknote cassette 25(#1) and serial number information (C0000, C0001, C0002) thereof to the banknote management apparatus 11 such as the head office as update information.

The banknote management apparatus 11 that received the update information of the banknote cassette 25(#1) of the ATM1 # machine accesses the in-cassette banknote management database 15, and recognizes that the serial numbers of 3 banknotes that should have been sent out by the withdrawal transaction should be "C0000", "C0001", and "C0002". The banknote management apparatus 11 compares the serial numbers (C0000, C0001, C0002) of the dispensed banknotes included in the received update information with the serial numbers specified from the in-box banknote management database 15, and confirms that the serial numbers of both parties match. The banknote management device 11 determines that the dispensing transaction is normally performed in the ATM21 in a state of being correctly managed by the in-box banknote management database 15, and updates the in-box banknote management database 15.

That is, the banknote management apparatus 11 eliminates the serial number information of 3 banknotes recorded in the in-box banknote management database 15 (i.e., deletes C0000, C0001, and C0002), and updates the number of banknotes (300 → 297). Fig. 13 shows the record contents of the in-box banknote management database 15 after being thus updated.

Next, a process in the case where the serial numbers of the in-box banknote management database 15 and the update information do not match each other in the confirmation of the matching will be described.

When the banknote management device 11 confirms that the serial number of the in-box banknote management database 15 does not match the serial number of the update information, the banknote management device instructs the ATM21 to check the banknotes in the box at a predetermined timing such as a time period in which the customer uses a small amount of time for the ATM.

The ATM21, which has received the instruction for the verification from the banknote management apparatus 11, sends out all the banknotes in the box 25 to be verified, reads the serial numbers by the banknote classification section 27, and temporarily stores the banknotes in the empty banknote box 25 or the like. The bill management device 11 discriminates all bills and returns the bills to the original bill box 25. The ATM21 temporarily stores serial number information of all banknotes and the like, and transmits the serial number information of all banknotes to the banknote management apparatus 11 as correction information. The banknote management apparatus 11 that has received the correction information from the ATM21 can correct (completely rewrite) the in-box banknote management database 15.

Although the in-box banknote management database 15 is accurately checked for all rewrites, the processing takes time, and the amount of communication increases when serial number information of all banknotes is transmitted from the ATM21 to the banknote management device 11.

On the other hand, depending on the degree of the inconsistency of the serial numbers and the contents of the inconsistency, the contents of the in-box banknote management database 15 can be corrected to correct contents without the above-described verification, as described below. For example, (1) when the banknotes are slightly different from each other, and (2) when the banknotes 3 are considered to be loaded into the banknote cassette 25 in a bundle, the banknotes are considered to be loaded upside down.

Fig. 14 is a flowchart showing a process in a case where the serial number stored in the in-box banknote management database 15 does not match the serial number included in the update information.

As described above, the banknote management system 11 acquires the update information from the ATM21 (S20), and compares the update information with the contents stored in the in-box banknote management database 15 (S21). When the updated information matches the contents of the in-box banknote management database 15 (no in S22), the banknote management device 11 returns to step S20. On the other hand, when the updated information does not match the contents of the in-box banknote management database 15 (YES at S22), the banknote management device 11 determines the degree of the mismatch (S23).

If the degree of the inconsistency is large, that is, if the number of banknotes with the serial numbers that are inconsistent is equal to or greater than the predetermined value (S23: the inconsistency is large), the banknote management apparatus 11 determines that the verification is necessary (S24), and performs the verification process (S27).

In the first case where the degree of the disagreement is small, that is, in the case where the number of banknotes with the inconsistent serial numbers is smaller than the predetermined number of banknotes (S23: disagreement small 1), the banknote management apparatus 11 judges that the disagreement is slight (S25), and corrects the in-box banknote management database 15 (S28).

The slight inconsistency is a case where the number of serial numbers is about several, and the other serial numbers are consistent. In this case, the banknote management device 11 estimates that the past update of the database 15 is missing, and can update the database 15 by ignoring the inconsistent serial numbers.

Fig. 15 shows an example of slight inconsistency. In this example, it is assumed that 5 banknotes are dispensed in the dispensing transaction, but rejected banknotes exist, and the serial numbers of the 5 dispensed banknotes are "N0000", "N0001", "N0002", "N0005", and "N0006". At this time, the serial number recorded in the in-box banknote management database 15 is the one shown on the left side of fig. 15.

In this example, the serial number corresponding to "N0003" of the 4 th banknote and the serial number corresponding to "N0004" of the 5 th banknote do not match each other from above the database 15. However, the serial numbers "N0005" and "N0006" of the banknotes after the above are identical to the serial numbers of the banknotes actually dispensed in the database 15.

In this case, it is considered that 2 banknotes of serial numbers "N0003" and "N0004" stored in the database 15 are fed out from the cassette 25 while being overlapped with each other, and are stored in the reject cassette 25R. Therefore, the banknote management device 11 ignores the serial numbers "N0003" and "N0004" of 2 banknotes that are fed out of the cassette 25 and collected in a superimposed manner, and erases the serial numbers "N0000", "N0001", "N0002", "N0003", "N0004", "N0005", and "N0006" recorded in the database 15. The updated database 15 is "N0007" or "N0008".

In the second case where the degree of inconsistency is small (S23: inconsistency is small 2), that is, in the case where the banknotes of the bundle of banknotes 3 are loaded into the paper feed cassette 25 so-called upside down, the banknote management apparatus 11 judges that the banknotes are loaded upside down (S26), and corrects the storage contents of the in-cassette banknote management database 15 (S29).

When the bundle of banknotes 3 is loaded into the cassette 25 described in fig. 8, for example, if the bundle of banknotes 3C is loaded with the arrangement turned upside down, the arrangement of the banknotes is turned upside down from the arrangement shown in fig. 7, and becomes as shown in fig. 16. Thus, the actual sequence order of serial numbers of banknotes in the banknote cassette 25 is different from the contents of the in-cassette banknote management database 15 shown in fig. 8.

In a state where the cassettes 25 are loaded with banknotes with the banknotes turned upside down, for example, when 4 banknotes are dispensed from the banknote cassette 25, the serial numbers of the dispensed banknotes are recognized as "C0099", "C0098", "C0097" and "C0096". As shown in fig. 9, since the in-box banknote management database 15 registers the banknotes in the order of "C0000", "C0001", "C0002", and "C0003" from the top, it is determined that the banknotes do not match each other.

The banknote management device 11 scans the banknote management database 15 in the cassette to detect regions in which the same serial numbers are registered in reverse order. Thus, the banknote management device 11 assumes that the bundle of banknotes 3C is loaded upside down when the banknote cassette 25 is loaded, and rewrites the contents of the record in the area corresponding to the bundle of banknotes 3C in the database 15 upside down (fig. 17).

As described above, the banknote management device 11 can match the actual storage state of the banknotes in the banknote cassette 25 with the contents (registration contents) stored in the database 15. In the present embodiment, the serial numbers (C0099, C0098, C0097, and C0096) of the fed banknotes are erased after that, but the rewriting and erasing in the above-described database 15 may be performed in parallel.

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

(1) Reduction of time required for counting banknotes in the banknote cassette 25

The banknote management device 11 manages information on "which banknotes are stored in which order and how many banknotes are stored in the banknote cassette 25" together with information on the serial numbers. In such a situation, for example, it is not necessary to clarify that there is a cassette 25 containing 2000 banknotes, but the operation of counting the cassettes 25 and newly manufacturing the cassette 25 containing 2000 banknotes is performed. Therefore, the banknote management device 11 of the present embodiment reduces the work time required for creating a new box to be supplied to the ATM 21.

The banknote management apparatus 11 of the present embodiment can be constructed by using the information of the banknotes in the cassette 25 collected from the ATM21 and by only sending out the required number of banknotes in the cassette 25 newly delivered to the ATM21 from the collected cassette 25 to the minimum.

For example, in the case of creating a cassette 25 in which 2000 banknotes of a predetermined denomination are stored, if 2035 banknotes of a predetermined denomination are stored in the collected cassette 25, only 35 banknotes are fed out from the collected cassette 25 and removed, and the cassette 25 in which 2000 banknotes are loaded can be created.

That is, the banknote cassette 25 in which 2035 banknotes are stored is connected to the banknote cassette mounting unit 136 of the banknote sorting apparatus with bundling function 13 shown in fig. 4, and if 35 banknotes are fed out from the cassette 25, the banknote cassette 25 in which 2000 banknotes are stored can be prepared quickly.

(2) Reduction in the number of bins recovered from an ATM

Since the total of four or five banknote cassettes 25 included In the ATM21 include the loaded and collected cassettes to be recycled, the replacement of all the cassettes 25 places a heavy burden on banknote carriers (Cash In Transit: CIT).

On the other hand, an ATM21 is specified to be loaded with 2000 banknotes of 20 dollars, 1000 banknotes of 10 dollars, 1000 banknotes of 1 dollar, and 1000 banknotes of 5 dollars. Therefore, the CIT needs to set a box 25 to the ATM21 in accordance with the application of the instruction.

The banknote management device 11 of the present embodiment can grasp in real time information (which may be referred to as in-box banknote information) on how many banknotes of which denomination are stored in each box 25 of the ATM 21. Therefore, according to the present embodiment, even in the ATM21, the number of cassettes to which the CIT is brought back from the site can be reduced by accumulating the remaining banknotes in the reject cassette 25R while leaving a predetermined number of banknotes in each cassette 25.

For example, when a banknote cassette 25 in which 1000 sheets of 10-dollar banknotes are required to be loaded is used, the number of banknotes stored in the banknote cassette 25 of 10-dollar banknotes of the ATM21 to be collected by the CIT is 1020. In this case, before collecting the cassettes 25, the CIT can create the banknote cassette 25 in which 1000 sheets of 10 dollars are loaded on the spot by transferring 20 sheets of 10 dollars to the reject cassette 25R by a maintenance operation of the ATM21 or the like. Therefore, the CIT does not need to collect the cassettes 25 containing 1000 sheets of 10-dollar bills from the ATM 21.

(3) Analysis of the number of banknotes filled into a box

According to the present embodiment, when collecting and counting the cassettes 25 applied to the ATM21 to the head office or the like, it is possible to compare the serial numbers of the banknotes first loaded into the cassettes 25 at the time of mounting to the ATM21 with the serial numbers of the banknotes remaining in the cassettes 25 collected from the ATM21 by inputting the serial numbers of the cassettes 25.

As shown in the upper part of fig. 18, by comparing the two, it is possible to know where the banknotes are originally present and where the banknotes are paid by the customer (S40). By collecting this information, as shown in the lower side of fig. 18, for example, statistics of what degree of banknotes have been deposited and dispensed in the past 1 month can be acquired, and the optimum number of banknotes to be loaded into the cassette 25 can be analyzed and the result can be presented to the user of the banknote management apparatus 11 (S41).

For example, in the example of fig. 18, it is preferable that the 2 nd cassette 25 is filled with a larger number of banknotes of 10 dollars, but the 4 th cassette 25 is enough to accommodate about 1000 banknotes of 50 dollars.

According to the present embodiment thus configured, banknotes in the ATMs of the respective bank branch banks are prepared at the head office or the like, and the banknote cassettes are collected after a predetermined period of time, so that the banknotes in the cassettes of the respective ATMs can be strictly managed in real time in a consistent manner. Thus, according to the present embodiment, it is possible to grasp in real time the excess and shortage of banknotes, accurately and efficiently perform cash management including replenishment and collection of banknotes, and improve convenience for the user using the banknote management apparatus 11.

The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments. Those skilled in the art can make various additions, modifications, and the like within the scope of the present invention. The features described in the embodiments can also be combined as appropriate.

Claims (7)

1. A bill management device manages bills loaded into an automatic transaction device,

acquiring serial number information, which is serial numbers of all banknotes included in a bundle of banknotes, from a banknote sorting apparatus that creates a predetermined number of bundles of banknotes, and storing the serial numbers in a first database capable of specifying the serial numbers of the banknotes for each bundle of banknotes,

determining serial numbers of all banknotes in a bundle of banknotes in the bundle of banknotes that is loaded into a banknote cassette of an automated transaction apparatus, storing the determined serial numbers in a second database that manages the serial numbers of the banknotes in the banknote cassette,

the second database is updated by acquiring update information including serial numbers of banknotes deposited and dispensed in the banknote cassette by the transaction in the automatic transaction apparatus from the automatic transaction apparatus.

2. The bill managing apparatus according to claim 1,

the paper money sorting device prints bundle paper money information including a serial number of a predetermined paper money located at the head of the bundle paper money to a bundle label and bundles the bundle paper money by the bundle label,

acquiring the bundle of banknotes information when a bundle label of the bundle of banknotes is removed and all banknotes are loaded into the banknote cassette,

the serial numbers of the predetermined banknotes included in the acquired banknote bundle information are identified based on the first database, and all the serial numbers of the banknote bundles loaded into the banknote cassette are stored in the second database.

3. The bill managing apparatus according to claim 1 or 2,

and comparing the update information with the storage content of the second database, and correcting the storage content of the second database based on a predetermined condition when the update information does not match with the storage content of the second database.

4. The bill managing apparatus according to claim 3,

the predetermined condition is a case where the number of pieces of serial numbers of the update information that do not match the serial numbers stored in the second database is equal to or less than a predetermined value, and in this case, it is determined that a plurality of banknotes are simultaneously taken out from the banknote cassette while overlapping and that an excess banknote is rejected and collected, and the content stored in the second database is updated so that the update information matches the content stored in the second database.

5. The bill managing apparatus according to claim 3,

the predetermined condition is a case where a plurality of serial numbers are stored in the second database in an order reverse to the order of a plurality of consecutive serial numbers stored in the update information, and in this case, it is determined that a bundle of banknotes corresponding to a plurality of banknotes stored in the second database in the reverse order is loaded in the banknote cassette upside down, and the contents stored in the second database are updated so that the update information matches the contents stored in the second database.

6. The bill managing apparatus according to claim 1 or 2,

the serial number of the bill remaining in the bill box collected from the automatic transaction device is acquired from the bill sorting device, the serial number of the bill remaining in the collected bill box is compared with the stored content of the second database, and the comparison result is output.

7. A bill management method for managing bills loaded into an automatic transaction apparatus by a computer,

the computer performs the steps of:

acquiring serial number information, which is serial numbers of all banknotes included in a bundle of banknotes, from a banknote sorting apparatus that creates the bundle of banknotes of a predetermined number,

storing the serial number information in a first database capable of determining the serial number of the banknotes of each bundle of banknotes,

determining serial numbers of all banknotes in a bundle of banknotes in the bundle of banknotes that is filled into a banknote cassette of an automated transaction apparatus,

storing the determined serial numbers to a second database that manages serial numbers of banknotes in the banknote cassette,

the second database is updated by acquiring update information including serial numbers of banknotes deposited and dispensed in the banknote cassette by the transaction in the automatic transaction apparatus from the automatic transaction apparatus.

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