CN210721627U

CN210721627U - Bill dispensing apparatus

Info

Publication number: CN210721627U
Application number: CN201921459987.8U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 杨鹏
Original assignee: Shenzhen Yihua Computer Co Ltd; Shenzhen Yihua Time Technology Co Ltd; Shenzhen Yihua Financial Intelligent Research Institute
Current assignee: Shenzhen Yihua Computer Co Ltd; Shenzhen Yihua Time Technology Co Ltd; Shenzhen Yihua Financial Intelligent Research Institute
Priority date: 2019-09-03
Filing date: 2019-09-03
Publication date: 2020-06-09
Anticipated expiration: 2029-09-03

Abstract

The embodiment of the utility model discloses a bill dispensing device, which comprises a control module and a bill transmission channel, wherein the starting end of the bill transmission channel is provided with at least one bill storage box, and the tail end of the bill transmission channel is provided with a bill outlet module; the equipment also comprises a first image acquisition module which is arranged in the bill storage box and is used for acquiring bill images; the device further comprises a thickness detection module for detecting the thickness of the bill, a non-contact card reading module for identifying chip information of the bill, a first printing module for printing bill information on the bill, a second image sensing module for collecting an image of the printed bill, and a second printing module for printing identification information corresponding to printing failure on the bill with printing failure. Adopt the embodiment of the utility model provides an, the artifical operation of reducible bill granting in-process improves the operation convenience that the bill was provided.

Description

Bill dispensing apparatus

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a computer technology field and financial equipment field especially relate to a equipment is provided to bill.

Background

With the annual increase of the business volume of institutions such as finance, postal service and the like and the improvement of the bank service quality, the service functions of self-service financial equipment are more and more in various banks or other places, and the receipt and the issue in various links can facilitate customers to use checks or acceptance to carry out deposit and withdrawal business or other business.

The existing automatic bill printing and issuing equipment can automatically process printing and issuing of bills, and work load of workers is greatly reduced, but the existing automatic bill printing and issuing equipment often needs manual backup processing, for example, ticket number information or serial numbers are manually input, or whether the ticket faces are abnormal or whether abnormal printing of the bill information is judged manually, operation is still complex, and great inconvenience is brought to users and corresponding workers in use.

That is to say, in the related art, there are certain problems of complicated operation and insufficient operation convenience for automatic printing and issuing of bills.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

Based on this, for solving above-mentioned problem the utility model discloses in, especially proposed a bill dispensing equipment, the artifical operation of in-process of reducible bill dispensing improves the operation convenience that the bill printed and was provided.

The utility model provides a bill issuing equipment which characterized in that, includes the bill transmission passageway of control module and transmission bill, the initiating terminal of bill transmission passageway is provided with at least one bill storage ballot box, the end of bill transmission passageway is provided with the module of drawing a bill:

the equipment also comprises a first image acquisition module which is connected with the control module and arranged in the bill storage box and is used for acquiring a first target image of the bill in the bill storage box;

the device also comprises a thickness detection module, a non-contact card reading module, a first printing module, a second image sensing module and a second printing module which are sequentially arranged on the bill transmission channel;

the thickness detection module is used for detecting the thickness of the bill;

the non-contact card reading module is used for identifying chip information of the bill;

the first printing module is used for printing bill information on a bill;

the second image sensing module is used for collecting a second target image of the printed bill, and the second target image is used for judging whether the bill is printed successfully or not;

the second printing module is used for printing identification information corresponding to printing failure on the bill with printing failure.

Optionally, the number of the bill storage ballots is at least 2, and the at least 2 bill storage ballots are stacked inside the housing of the device; each bill storage box is correspondingly provided with a first image acquisition module, and the first image acquisition module is arranged inside the bill storage box and above the bill storage position of the bill storage box.

Optionally, the bill storage box further comprises a bill distribution motor, and the bill distribution motor is used for distributing the bills in the bill storage box to the bill transmission passage.

Optionally, the bill conveying channel includes a first conveying channel and a second conveying channel connected to each other, the thickness detection module, the non-contact card reading module, and the first printing module are disposed in the first conveying channel, and the second image sensing module and the second printing module are disposed in the second conveying channel;

the first transmission channel is arranged on one side of the at least one bill storage box; the second channel is arranged on one side of the equipment, the bill storage box and the first transmission channel.

Optionally, the device further includes a waste ticket storage module disposed at the end of the ticket transport passage, and the waste ticket storage module is disposed adjacent to the ticket issuing module.

Optionally, the device further includes a reversing mechanism disposed adjacent to the end of the bill conveying passage and connected to the control module, the reversing mechanism is disposed between the second printing module and the ticket drawing module, and between the second printing module and the waste ticket storage module, and the reversing mechanism conveys the bills to the ticket drawing module when in a first reversing state, and conveys the bills to the waste ticket storage module when in a second reversing state.

Optionally, the first printing unit is a thermal transfer printing device, and the second printing unit is an inkjet printing device.

Optionally, the device further comprises a transmission motor connected with the control module, and the transmission motor is used for controlling the bill to be transmitted in the bill transmission channel.

Optionally, the second image sensing module includes a first sensing module and a second sensing module which are arranged oppositely, and the first sensing module and the second sensing module are respectively used for collecting images of the front side and the back side of the bill as the second target image.

Optionally, the device further includes a storage module connected to the control module and the second image sensing module, where the storage module is configured to store a second target image acquired by the second image sensing module.

Optionally, the device further includes a ticket gate disposed on the ticket module, and a gate motor connected to the control module and used for controlling the opening and closing of the ticket gate.

Adopt the embodiment of the utility model provides a, following beneficial effect has:

after the bill issuing equipment is adopted, when the bill is required to be printed and issued, the image recognition is carried out on the bill stored in the bill storage box through the first image acquisition module according to the received bill issuing instruction so as to verify the bill number of the bill; then, the bill is transmitted to a bill transmission channel, and the thickness of the bill and the chip information are detected through a thickness detection module and a non-contact card reading module; under the condition that the detection passes, bill information is printed on the bill through the first printing module, then after the printing is completed, the image of the bill is collected and identified through the second image sensing module so as to judge whether the bill is successfully printed or not, the bill which is successfully printed is issued, and the preset identification information is printed on the bill which is failed to be printed through the second printing module. That is to say, in the process of issuing the bill, manual operation or inspection is not needed, and the full-automatic flow including printing, abnormality detection and the like in the process of issuing the bill can be realized by the bill issuing device and the method, so that the efficiency of issuing the bill and the convenience of operation are improved.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly described below, it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and for those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to these drawings without creative efforts.

Wherein:

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a ticket issuing apparatus in one embodiment;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a bill issuing apparatus according to an embodiment

FIG. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of a thickness detection module in one embodiment;

figure 4 is a schematic diagram of the configuration of a document transport path in one embodiment.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be described clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only some embodiments of the present invention, not all embodiments. Based on the embodiments in the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by a person skilled in the art without creative efforts belong to the protection scope of the present invention.

In the embodiment, a bill issuing apparatus is provided.

Specifically, the bill issuing device can identify and detect the printed and issued bill and print and issue the bill information. That is to say, through this bill issuing equipment can realize the automatic printing and the issue of bill, do not need manual operation, improved the convenience of bill issue.

As shown in fig. 1 and 2, fig. 1 and 2 show the structure of a ticket issuing apparatus according to the present embodiment.

Specifically, as shown in fig. 1 and fig. 2, the bill issuing device 10 includes a control module 100 and a bill transmission channel 200 for transmitting bills, a starting end 2001 of the bill transmission channel 200 is provided with at least one bill storage box 300, and an end 2002 of the bill transmission channel 200 is provided with a ticket issuing module 400. The bill is sent to the bill sending module for bill sending through the transmission of the bill transmission channel so as to complete the bill sending.

In this embodiment, the bill storage box 300 further includes a bill distribution motor 301, and the bill distribution motor 301 is configured to distribute the bills in the bill storage box 300 to the bill conveying passage 200.

As shown in fig. 1, the bill issuing device 10 further includes a transport motor 230 connected to the control module 100 for controlling the transportation of bills in the bill transportation path 200.

The bill issuing device 10 further comprises a first image collecting module 201 connected to the control module 100 and disposed in the bill storage box 300, for collecting a first target image of the bill in the bill storage box 300; the control module 100 is further configured to identify a corresponding ticket identification code according to the first target image. The first image collecting module 201 is disposed in the bill storage box, for example, above the bill storage box for storing bills, and can collect images of bills that have not been issued. It should be noted that, in this embodiment, the first image capturing module 201 is disposed inside the bill storage box 300, and may also be disposed outside the bill storage box 300, that is, after the bill is transported to the bill transportation channel, the image of the bill is captured by the first image capturing module 201 disposed in the bill transportation channel. When the first image acquisition module 201 is arranged in the bill storage box, the position of the first image acquisition module is convenient to set, the position in the bill transmission channel is not required to be occupied, and the space position of the bill issuing equipment can be saved. When the first image acquisition module is arranged in the bill transmission channel, only one first image acquisition module needs to be arranged, so that the cost of the image acquisition module can be saved.

In this embodiment, the number of the bill storage boxes is at least 2, and the at least 2 bill storage boxes are stacked and arranged inside the housing of the device; for example, the number of ticket storage bins may be 3, or other numbers. The bills stored in each bill storage box can be the same bill or different bills, and can be set according to the bills which can be issued by the bill issuing equipment.

When the first image acquisition module is arranged inside the bill storage box, as shown in fig. 2, each bill storage box is correspondingly provided with one first image acquisition module, and the first image acquisition module is arranged inside the bill storage box and above the bill storage position of the bill storage box.

It should be noted that, in this embodiment, the first image capturing module may capture an entire image of the ticket, or may capture only an image of the ticket number portion of the ticket, and is only used for identifying the ticket number information of the ticket.

In this embodiment, after the first image acquisition module acquires the first target image of the ticket to be issued, the control module 100 identifies the first target image to acquire ticket number information, which is the ticket number of the ticket to be issued. In this embodiment, the ticket number information identified by the first target image should be matched with the ticket number information in the current ticket issuing task, and only if the ticket number information is matched, the subsequent issuing process can be continued in the ticket transmission channel.

The bill issuing device 10 further comprises a thickness detection module 203, a non-contact card reading module 204, a first printing module 205, a second image sensing module 202 and a second printing module 206 which are sequentially arranged on the bill transmission channel 200; the thickness detection module 203 is used for detecting the thickness of the bill; the non-contact card reading module 204 is used for identifying chip information of the bill; the first printing module 205 is used for printing bill information on a bill; the second image sensing module 202 is configured to collect a second target image of the printed ticket, so that the control module 100 identifies the collected second target image to determine whether the ticket is successfully printed; the second printing module 206 is configured to print the identification information corresponding to the printing failure on the ticket with the printing failure.

Specifically, the thickness detection module 203 is configured to detect the thickness of the bill, so as to determine whether the bill transmitted to the bill transmission channel has a double sheet, and if the double sheet exists, it is determined that the bill is abnormal, and the bill is not issued any more; the issuance of the ticket is continued only in the case where there is no overlapped sheet of the ticket.

In a specific embodiment, as shown in fig. 3, when the target bill is transported to the thickness detection module 203, because of the thickness of the target bill, the roller 2031 is lifted, the metal sheet 2032 is lifted, the distance between the sensor 2033 and the metal sheet changes, and when the thicknesses of the bills are different, the distance between the sensor 2033 and the metal sheet also changes, so that the distance detected by the sensor 2033 reflects the thickness of the bill, and whether the target bill has overlapped sheets or not is determined. The sensor 2033 includes, but is not limited to, an infrared sensor, an electric turbo coil, and a hall sensor.

The non-contact card reading module 204 is configured to read chip information of a ticket to be issued, compare the chip information with ticket information in a ticket issuing task, determine that a current ticket is normal only when the read chip information is matched with the ticket information in the ticket issuing task, and otherwise determine that the current ticket is abnormal, and perform no subsequent ticket issuing process. It should be noted that, in this embodiment, if the bill is a non-chip bill, the contactless card reading module 204 is an unnecessary module.

The first printing module 205 is used to print the ticket information on the ticket, where the printed ticket information is from the ticket information in the ticket issuing task, and includes account information, amount information, and the like. It should be noted that in an alternative embodiment, the first print module 205 may be a thermal transfer printing device.

The second image sensing module 202 is used for recognizing the printed contents (e.g., OCR recognition) after the ticket information is printed by the first printing module 205. That is to say, the second image sensing module collects a second target image of the printed bill, then identifies the second target image, and judges whether the printed bill information is matched with the bill information in the bill issuing task. And carrying out image recognition on the second target image to obtain printed bill information, then comparing the printed bill information with the bill information in the bill issuing task, and judging whether the two are consistent.

The second printing module 206 is configured to print a preset word on the ticket, for example, print a "void" word, if the ticket to be issued is determined to have failed to print. In one particular embodiment, the second printing module 206 is an inkjet printing device.

In this embodiment, for the case that there is a double sheet detected by the thickness detection module, or the chip information detected by the non-contact card reading module is not matched, or the printing identified by the second image sensing module fails, the corresponding ticket cannot be normally issued, and in this case, the corresponding abnormal ticket needs to be collected and stored.

As shown in fig. 2, the ticket issuing apparatus 10 further includes a waste ticket storage module 500 disposed at the end 2002 of the ticket transmission channel 200, wherein the waste ticket storage module 500 is disposed adjacent to the ticket issuing module 400; that is to say, in the process of issuing the bill, the normally issued bill needs to be transmitted to the bill issuing module for issuing the bill, but for the abnormal bill in the case of printing failure and the like, the abnormal bill needs to be transmitted to the waste bill storage module for storage, so that the subsequent staff can recover and process the abnormal bill. Note that in one specific embodiment, as shown in fig. 2, the waste ticket storage module and the ticket output module are disposed above the ticket storage module.

The ticket drawing module 400 and the waste ticket storage module 500 are both disposed at the end 2002 of the ticket transmission channel 200, but the tickets are transmitted separately in different situations when the end of the ticket transmission channel is reached. To effect the transport of the bill, a diverter mechanism 2003 is provided at the end 2002 of the bill transport passageway 200. Specifically, the reversing mechanism 2003 is arranged adjacent to the end 2002 of the bill conveying channel 200 and connected with the control module 200, the reversing mechanism 2003 is arranged between the second printing module 206 and the ticket issuing module 400 and between the second printing module 206 and the waste ticket storage module 500, the reversing mechanism 2003 conveys the bills to the ticket issuing module 400 in a first reversing state and conveys the bills to the waste ticket storage module 500 in a second reversing state. That is, according to the condition of detecting and printing the bills, the control module 100 controls the state of the reversing mechanism 2003, thereby realizing the bill transfer to the drawing module 400 or the waste bill storage module 500.

In the case of bill abnormality detected by the first image acquisition module 201, bill abnormality detected by the thickness detection module 203, or bill abnormality detected by the non-contact card reading module 204, no bill information is printed on the bill, and the problem of leakage or insecurity of the bill information does not exist. And the bill information is already printed on the bill under the condition that the printing abnormality detected by the second image sensing module 202 and the preset pattern is printed on the bill by the second printing module 206, and if the bill information is optionally invalidated, the bill information may be leaked, which affects the account security of the user. In the embodiment, in the former case, only the ticket needs to be recycled (in some cases, recycling can also be performed), and in the latter case, the ticket needs to be processed to avoid data leakage (for example, to crush the ticket).

In this embodiment, in order to distinguish between the two types of abnormal bills, the bill transfer path may be divided into a front path (first transfer path) from which the first type of abnormal bill is received and a rear path (second transfer path) from which the second type of abnormal bill is received.

Specifically, as shown in fig. 4, the bill conveying path 200 includes a first conveying path 210 and a second conveying path 220 connected to each other, the thickness detection module 203, the contactless card reading module 204, and the first printing module 205 are disposed in the first conveying path 210, and the second image sensing module 202 and the second printing module 206 are disposed in the second conveying path 220.

As shown in fig. 2, the first transport path 210 is disposed to one side of the at least one note storage bin 300; the second transport path 220 is disposed on one side of the ticket dispensing apparatus 10 and the ticket storage bin and the first transport path 210. Through the position arrangement of different channels, the space position design of the bill issuing equipment can be saved as far as possible, and the size of the bill issuing equipment is reduced.

In this embodiment, the first image capturing module may be a camera; the second image sensing module 202 is a CIS image sensor, and the CIS image sensor collects a second target image of the bill, so that the accuracy of image recognition can be improved.

In a specific embodiment, for detecting whether the bill is printed successfully, images are collected and identified on the front side and the back side of the bill. The second image sensing module 202 comprises a first sensing module 2021 and a second sensing module 2022 which are oppositely arranged, and the first sensing module 2021 and the second sensing module 2022 are respectively used for collecting images of the front side and the back side of the bill as the second target image. In the identification process of whether the bill is successfully printed, images on the front side and the back side of the bill are respectively identified, so that the accuracy of bill identification is guaranteed.

Further, in this embodiment, in the process of identifying the bill through the second target image, it is necessary to detect whether the bill information is printed successfully, and it is also necessary to detect whether the bill is stained or damaged, and only when the bill is not stained or damaged, the bill is determined as a normal bill, otherwise, the bill is determined as an abnormal bill, and the word "invalid" needs to be printed and transmitted to the waste bill storage module for storage.

In the present embodiment, the bill issuing apparatus 10 is further provided with a function of storing relevant data, for example, storing the second target images of the front and back sides of the bill collected by the second image sensing module 202.

Specifically, as shown in fig. 1, the ticket issuing apparatus further includes a storage module 1001 connected to the control module 100 and the second image sensing module 202, where the storage module 1001 is configured to store a second target image captured by the second image sensing module. It should be noted that, in this embodiment, the second target image stored in the storage module 1001 may also be printed by a connected printing device, so as to archive a paper document.

The ticket issuing task can be one or more than one ticket corresponding to the ticket to be issued, and the ticket can be issued after the ticket corresponding to the ticket issuing task is completely printed. In this embodiment, as shown in fig. 2, whether the printed ticket is issued or not needs to be controlled by a ticket gate 401 disposed in the ticket issuing module 400, and the control of the ticket gate 401 needs to be controlled by a gate motor 402 connected to the control module 100 for controlling the opening and closing of the ticket gate 401. That is, after the ticket printing is completed, the gate motor 402 is controlled by the control module 100 to open the ticket gate, thereby completing the ticket drawing.

In another embodiment of the present invention, a method for issuing bills is also provided.

Specifically, the ticket issuing method includes the following steps:

receiving a bill printing instruction;

acquiring a first target image of a bill to be issued in a bill storage box through a first image acquisition module, and acquiring a bill identification code according to the first target image;

distributing the bills to be issued to a bill transmission channel through a bill distribution motor, and controlling the bills to be issued to be transmitted in the bill transmission channel through a transmission motor;

acquiring thickness information of the bill to be issued through a thickness detection module to determine that no overlapped sheets exist in the bill to be issued;

reading the chip information of the bill to be issued through a non-contact card reading module to determine whether the chip information of the bill to be issued is matched with the bill printing instruction or not;

printing bill information on a bill to be issued through a first printing module, collecting a second target image of the printed bill to be issued through a second image sensing module, and identifying the second target image to judge whether the bill to be issued is printed successfully;

when the printing is successful, the bill to be issued is transmitted to a bill issuing module for issuing a bill;

and when printing fails, printing identification information corresponding to the printing failure on the to-be-issued bill through the second printing module, and transmitting the to-be-issued bill to the waste bill storage module.

It should be noted that, in the present embodiment, the execution of the ticket issuing method is based on the aforementioned ticket issuing apparatus 10, and the steps of the ticket issuing method are executed by the modules of the ticket issuing apparatus 10.

The bill printing instruction may be sent by receiving an upper computer connected to the bill issuing device 10, and is used to instruct the bill issuing device 10 to execute the bill printing task in the corresponding bill printing instruction, thereby completing issuing of the bill.

The steps of the bill issuing method are described in the above description when the bill issuing device is a function of each module, and are not described herein again.

Implement the embodiment of the utility model provides a, will have following beneficial effect:

The above disclosure is only for the purpose of illustrating the preferred embodiments of the present invention and is not to be construed as limiting the scope of the invention, which is defined by the appended claims.

Claims

1. The bill issuing equipment is characterized by comprising a control module and a bill transmission channel for transmitting bills, wherein the starting end of the bill transmission channel is provided with at least one bill storage box, and the tail end of the bill transmission channel is provided with a bill issuing module;

the thickness detection module is used for detecting the thickness of the bill;

the first printing module is used for printing bill information on a bill;

2. The ticket dispensing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the number of ticket storage bins is at least 2, the at least 2 ticket storage bins being stacked within the housing of the apparatus; each bill storage box is correspondingly provided with a first image acquisition module, and the first image acquisition module is arranged inside the bill storage box and above the bill storage position of the bill storage box.

3. The ticket dispensing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the ticket storage bin further comprises a ticket dispensing motor for dispensing tickets from the ticket storage bin to the ticket transport passageway.

4. The bill issuing device according to claim 1, wherein the bill transport path comprises a first transport path and a second transport path connected with each other, the thickness detection module, the non-contact card reading module and the first printing module are disposed in the first transport path, and the second image sensing module and the second printing module are disposed in the second transport path;

the first transmission channel is arranged on one side of the at least one bill storage box; the second transmission channel is arranged on one side of the equipment, the bill storage box and the first transmission channel.

5. The ticket dispensing apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a waste storage module disposed at an end of the ticket transport passageway, the waste storage module being disposed adjacent to the ticket exit module.

6. The ticket dispensing apparatus of claim 5, further comprising a reversing mechanism coupled to the control module and disposed adjacent an end of the ticket transport path, the reversing mechanism being disposed between the second printing module and the ticket ejection module and between the second printing module and the waste ticket storage module, the reversing mechanism transporting tickets to the ticket ejection module when in a first reversing state and transporting tickets to the waste ticket storage module when in a second reversing state.

7. The ticket dispensing apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a transport motor coupled to the control module for controlling transport of tickets through the ticket transport passageway.

8. The bill issuing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second image sensing module comprises a first sensing module and a second sensing module which are arranged oppositely, and the first sensing module and the second sensing module are respectively used for acquiring images of the front side and the back side of the bill as the second target image.

9. The ticket issuing device according to claim 1, further comprising a storage module connected to said control module and said second image sensing module, said storage module being configured to store a second target image captured by said second image sensing module.

10. The ticket issuing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a ticket gate provided to the ticket issuing module, and a gate motor connected to the control module for controlling the opening and closing of the ticket gate.