EP0100962A2 - Bill dispense control system - Google Patents
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- G07D—HANDLING OF COINS OR VALUABLE PAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING, DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING
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- This invention is related to a bill issuing machine wherein some amount of bills requested by a customer are dispensed to a teller who then hands them to the customer and, more particularly, a bill dispense control system in such bill issuing machine operated by the teller.
- a cash issuing machine operated by a teller particularly a bill dispenser
- the requested bill amount which is inputted by the teller through a keyboard responding to a customer's request is generally checked on the balance etc. by a host computer. If the dispensing is allowable, the host computer provides a dispensing command to cause some denomination of bills corresponding to the requested amount to be successively fed out from the cartridges and then to be stacked in a temporary store in a bill feed path.
- the operation of the bill dispenser stops to suppress the subsequent feed-out operation and calls a teller's attention to fill up the exhausted cartridge. Accordingly, the teller or a person in charge can fill up the cartridge. In this case, the insufficient amount of bills stacked in the temporary store are collectively transferred into a reject box.
- the above-mentioned bill feed-out operation is restarted from the beginning.
- FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a banking system including a bill dispenser which can use this invention.
- a host computer 1 installed in the head office of a bank stores the deposit files of customers who have accounts with this bank, checks the balance of a customer in response to request for dispensing bills that is transmitted from a keyboard 4 in a branch through a controller 2 over a communication line 3 and, if the dispensing is permissible, sends a dispensing command to the controller 2.
- the controller 2 indicates on a display 5 the denominations and the numbers of the bills corresponding to the amount to be dispensed.
- the teller may change the combination of the denomination and number of the bills according to the wish of the customer.
- the number of bills on each denomination as determined above are sent to a bill dispenser 6 and a coin dispenser 7 from the controller 2 by a command. Because these dispensers do dispense exactly the amount of cash specified by the command, the teller can hand the dispensed cash to the customer as is without checking.
- Figure 2 shows the bill feed paths schematically in the above-mentioned bill dispenser 6. It has four bill cartridges, each of which can hold any denomination of bills up to a predetermined amount (e.g. 200 bills) respectively.
- a cartridge 8 can hold ten-thousand-yen bills
- a cartridge 9 five-thousand-yen bills
- cartridges 10 and 11 one-thousand-yen and five-hundred-yen bills respectively.
- another cartridge for one-thousand-yen or ten-thousand-yen bills which is frequently dispensed may be provided instead of the cartridge for five-hundred-yen bills. Any combination of cartridges for any denominations may be chosen.
- Each cartridge has a mechanism operable to feed out the specified amount of bills.
- the bill(s) fed from each cartridge passes through a feeding path 14, which consists of belts or rollers, and is stacked in a temporary reservoir or store 15.
- a feeding path 14 which consists of belts or rollers, and is stacked in a temporary reservoir or store 15.
- a feeding path 14 which consists of belts or rollers, and is stacked in a temporary reservoir or store 15.
- an no error condition such as overlapped bills or torn bills is detected by a sensor 16
- all of the bills in the temporary store 15 are collectively transferred to a take-out port 17. If an error condition is detected, all of the bills in the temporary store are transferred into a reject box 18, and the operation for dispensing the bills is repeated for the transaction.
- Each cartridge is also provided with a device 13 for detecting the bill exhaustion in the cartridge. If any of the detecting devices 13 detects an empty cartridge, the bill feed-out operation from the associated cartrigde is immediately stopped.
- Figure 3 shows the construction of the take-out port 17. While a gate 31 is shown in its open state in Figure 3, it is usually in an upright position, namely the closed state.
- the belt 33 is driven by a motor (not shown) to rotate a shaft 34 counter-clockwise to open the gate 31 to the illustrated position. Then, the teller can take out the bills and hand them to the customer.
- the gate 31 is returned to its closed state by a spring 35.
- the teller may open the gate 31 by hand to take out the bills, or may open the gate by driving the belt 33 through the operation of a push button or the like (not shown) to take out the bills.
- the bill dispenser 6 is requested by the controller 2 to dispense one-hundred- thousand- yen, for example, in seven ten-thousand-yen bills, two five-thousand-yen bills, eighteen one-thousand-yen bills, and four five-hundred-yen bills.
- the bill dispenser 6 feeds out seven bills from the cartridge 8 for ten-thousand-yen bills, and then two bills from the cartridge 9 for five-thousand-yen bills to the temporary store 15. Further eighteen bills begin to be fed out from the cartridge 10 for one-thousand-yen bills.
- the bill dispenser detects it, stops the feed-out operation in the cartridge 10, and informs the teller of the bill exhaustion by turning on a lamp indicating that the cartridge is empty.
- the operation of the bill dispenser is continued to feed out four bills from the next cartridge for five-hundred-yen bills to the temporary store 13.
- the bills stacked in the temporary store 13 are collectively transferred to the take-out port 17 but the gate 31 does not open because the bill exhaustion has been detected in the cartridge 10.
- the bill dispenser 6 sends to the controller 2 the signals representing information on the denominations and numbers of the bills actually fed out, namely seven bills actually fed out, namely seven bills from the cartridge 8, two from the cartridge 9, fifteen from the cartridge 10 and four from the cartridge 11.
- the controller 2 compares the denominations and numbers of the bills to be dispensed with those of the bills actually fed out and, when it is detected that the feeding-out of the bills comes short by three one-thousand-yen bills, the controller issues to the display 5 a command for causing it to display the denominations and numbers for the shortage. Then, the teller opens the gate 31 by hand to take out the bills fed out there and also takes out bills corresponding to the shortage displayed on the display 5 from a safe to hand them together to the customer.
- Figure 4 is a flow chart generally illustrating its operating steps.
- the teller can easily become aware of the bill exhaustion in the cartridge because the gate of the take-out port does not open automatically when such a problem occurs, making an error in handling the wrong amount of bills to the customer can be prevented.
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- This invention is related to a bill issuing machine wherein some amount of bills requested by a customer are dispensed to a teller who then hands them to the customer and, more particularly, a bill dispense control system in such bill issuing machine operated by the teller.
- Generally, a cash issuing machine operated by a teller, particularly a bill dispenser, has a plurality of cartridges each corresponding to a different denomination. The requested bill amount, which is inputted by the teller through a keyboard responding to a customer's request is generally checked on the balance etc. by a host computer. If the dispensing is allowable, the host computer provides a dispensing command to cause some denomination of bills corresponding to the requested amount to be successively fed out from the cartridges and then to be stacked in a temporary store in a bill feed path. After all of the bills corresponding to the requested amount are fed into the temporary store, they are collectively fed to a take-out port and, when a gate of the port is automatically opened, they are taken out by the teller to be handed to the customer. However, if a cartridge does not contain a sufficient amount of bills and therefor cannot feed the bills during the feed-out operation, the operation of the bill dispenser stops to suppress the subsequent feed-out operation and calls a teller's attention to fill up the exhausted cartridge. Accordingly, the teller or a person in charge can fill up the cartridge. In this case, the insufficient amount of bills stacked in the temporary store are collectively transferred into a reject box. At the completion of the fill-up operation, the above-mentioned bill feed-out operation is restarted from the beginning.
- As described above, when the bill in a cartridge is exhausted during the bill feed-out operation, all of the operations until then are cancelled and must be repeated from the beginning after the bill filling-up. Thus, the customer may be kept waiting at the teller counter for a long time. This is undesirable for the bank. This invention permits dispensing.a required amount of bills without keeping the customer waiting even if a cartridge is exhausted, and also prevents the teller from handing an insufficient amount of bills to the customer in error.
- An embodiment of this invention is described below in connection with the appended drawings, in which:
- Figure 1 is a block diagram of a banking system containing the bill dispenser that embodies this invention;
- Figure 2 schematically shows the bill feed system in the bill dispenser;
- Figure 3 is a perspective view showing the construction of the take-out port of the bill dispenser that embodies this invention; and
- Figure 4 is a flow chart illustrating the bill dispense control system of this invention.
- Figure 1 is a block diagram of a banking system including a bill dispenser which can use this invention. A host computer 1 installed in the head office of a bank stores the deposit files of customers who have accounts with this bank, checks the balance of a customer in response to request for dispensing bills that is transmitted from a
keyboard 4 in a branch through acontroller 2 over a communication line 3 and, if the dispensing is permissible, sends a dispensing command to thecontroller 2. Thecontroller 2 indicates on adisplay 5 the denominations and the numbers of the bills corresponding to the amount to be dispensed. The teller may change the combination of the denomination and number of the bills according to the wish of the customer. The number of bills on each denomination as determined above are sent to abill dispenser 6 and acoin dispenser 7 from thecontroller 2 by a command. Because these dispensers do dispense exactly the amount of cash specified by the command, the teller can hand the dispensed cash to the customer as is without checking. - Figure 2 shows the bill feed paths schematically in the above-mentioned
bill dispenser 6. It has four bill cartridges, each of which can hold any denomination of bills up to a predetermined amount (e.g. 200 bills) respectively. For example, acartridge 8 can hold ten-thousand-yen bills, a cartridge 9 five-thousand-yen bills,cartridges feeding path 14, which consists of belts or rollers, and is stacked in a temporary reservoir orstore 15. When all of the bills to be dispensed are fed out from the cartridges an no error condition such as overlapped bills or torn bills is detected by asensor 16, all of the bills in thetemporary store 15 are collectively transferred to a take-out port 17. If an error condition is detected, all of the bills in the temporary store are transferred into areject box 18, and the operation for dispensing the bills is repeated for the transaction. Each cartridge is also provided with adevice 13 for detecting the bill exhaustion in the cartridge. If any of the detectingdevices 13 detects an empty cartridge, the bill feed-out operation from the associated cartrigde is immediately stopped. - Figure 3 shows the construction of the take-
out port 17. While agate 31 is shown in its open state in Figure 3, it is usually in an upright position, namely the closed state. When the bills are transferred onto thebill receiving plate 32 of the take-out port from the temporary store, thebelt 33 is driven by a motor (not shown) to rotate ashaft 34 counter-clockwise to open thegate 31 to the illustrated position. Then, the teller can take out the bills and hand them to the customer. When the driving force is removed from thebelt 33, thegate 31 is returned to its closed state by aspring 35. Also, when thebelt 33 is not driven even if the bills are fed to the take-out port, the teller may open thegate 31 by hand to take out the bills, or may open the gate by driving thebelt 33 through the operation of a push button or the like (not shown) to take out the bills. - Now it is assumed that the
bill dispenser 6 is requested by thecontroller 2 to dispense one-hundred- thousand- yen, for example, in seven ten-thousand-yen bills, two five-thousand-yen bills, eighteen one-thousand-yen bills, and four five-hundred-yen bills. The bill dispenser 6 feeds out seven bills from thecartridge 8 for ten-thousand-yen bills, and then two bills from the cartridge 9 for five-thousand-yen bills to thetemporary store 15. Further eighteen bills begin to be fed out from thecartridge 10 for one-thousand-yen bills. For example, if the bills are exhausted when fifteen bills are fed out, the bill dispenser detects it, stops the feed-out operation in thecartridge 10, and informs the teller of the bill exhaustion by turning on a lamp indicating that the cartridge is empty. However, the operation of the bill dispenser is continued to feed out four bills from the next cartridge for five-hundred-yen bills to thetemporary store 13. When the feeding-out from the specified cartridges are completed, the bills stacked in thetemporary store 13 are collectively transferred to the take-outport 17 but thegate 31 does not open because the bill exhaustion has been detected in thecartridge 10. In addition, thebill dispenser 6 sends to thecontroller 2 the signals representing information on the denominations and numbers of the bills actually fed out, namely seven bills actually fed out, namely seven bills from thecartridge 8, two from the cartridge 9, fifteen from thecartridge 10 and four from thecartridge 11. Thecontroller 2 compares the denominations and numbers of the bills to be dispensed with those of the bills actually fed out and, when it is detected that the feeding-out of the bills comes short by three one-thousand-yen bills, the controller issues to the display 5 a command for causing it to display the denominations and numbers for the shortage. Then, the teller opens thegate 31 by hand to take out the bills fed out there and also takes out bills corresponding to the shortage displayed on thedisplay 5 from a safe to hand them together to the customer. - The above operation is controlled by a microprocessor in the
bill dispenser 6. Figure 4 is a flow chart generally illustrating its operating steps. - According to this invention, the teller can easily become aware of the bill exhaustion in the cartridge because the gate of the take-out port does not open automatically when such a problem occurs, making an error in handling the wrong amount of bills to the customer can be prevented.
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JP57136403A JPS5930185A (en) | 1982-08-06 | 1982-08-06 | Paper money dump control system |
JP136403/82 | 1982-08-06 |
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EP0100962A2 true EP0100962A2 (en) | 1984-02-22 |
EP0100962A3 EP0100962A3 (en) | 1987-07-15 |
EP0100962B1 EP0100962B1 (en) | 1991-02-27 |
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EP0100962A3 (en) | 1987-07-15 |
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