JP2001014511A - Paper money receiving and paying device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the placing efficiency of a customer service part and to miniaturize a paper money receiving/paying device. SOLUTION: A customer service part 2 consists of a bundle transport part 10 where the input paper money P can be inputted and then transported in a bundle, the drawing parts 14 and 15 which are placed in parallel to each other and draw out the money P in every sheet and an accumulating part 18 which is prepared above the parts 14 and 15 and accumulates the money P. The part 18 consists of a paper money holding part which holds the money P at its both end parts and moves up and down the money P. Furthermore, a store part 13 is formed by separating the upper and lower conveyer belts 11 and 12 of the part 10 from each other to store the money P that is sent from a carrier path. In such a constitution, the part 2 is effectively placed in terms of space and accordingly the space of the part 2 can be reduced.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a banknote pay-in / pay-out device for performing a banknote deposit / withdrawal transaction by a customer operation.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a banknote pay-in / pay-out device, when performing a depositing transaction, when a customer operates an operation unit and inserts bills into a customer service unit, the inserted bills enter the transport path one by one from the customer entrance. It is fed out and transported to the discrimination section. The discrimination unit performs counting and discrimination such as authenticity and the result is notified to the customer,
When the customer approves, the transaction is completed. The banknote determined to be abnormal as a result of the discrimination is sent back to the customer service section and returned to the customer.

In the case of a withdrawal transaction, when a customer operates the operation unit and designates a withdrawal amount, bills are paid out from a safe of the designated denomination, and the designated amount is counted by the discrimination unit and designated. Is sent to the customer service department. In the customer service section, bills sent one by one are bundled to make it easy for the customer to take out.

[0004]

As described above, the customer service section of the banknote depositing / dispensing apparatus includes a bill input section into which deposited banknotes are inserted, a feeding section for feeding out inserted banknotes one by one, and unacceptable banknotes. Are required to perform various functions, such as a storage unit for storing the bills and a stacking unit for stacking bills to be dispensed. It is important to arrange these parts efficiently in order to reduce the size of the device.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention is to feed out input bills one by one to a transport path, accumulate bills sent from the transport path, and transport the bills to a receiving position. In the bill receiving and dispensing device having a customer service section,
The customer service unit is provided on the transport path side of the bundle transport unit, in which a deposited banknote can be inserted and transports the banknotes in a bundle, and the bills input to the bundle transport unit are transported one by one in the transport path. Feeding section, a storage section for storing bills, and a bundle section, provided near the upper portion of the bundle transport section and the payout section, for receiving bills sent from the transport path and storing the bills in the storage section. And an accumulating unit.

[0006] The bundle transport section is constituted by rotatable belts arranged in particular above and below, and the lower belt is movable in the direction of approaching to and separating from the upper belt, and the lower belt serves as a storage section. Constitute. The stacking unit is provided on both sides of the bundle transporting unit and the feeding unit so as to be vertically movable, and moves upward to store bills in the storage unit. At this time, it is preferable to provide a pressure lever for knocking the bills accumulated in the accumulation section into the storage section.

[0007]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram showing a banknote pay-in / pay-out device according to an embodiment. In FIG. 1, a bill receiving / dispensing device 1 includes a customer service unit 2 that receives a deposited bill and pays out a withdrawn bill, an escrow unit 3 that temporarily holds deposited bills, a discriminating unit 4 that counts and discriminates bills, Banknote storage units 5 and 6 for storing banknotes are provided, respectively.
A bill transport path 7 for transporting bills is provided between these units. The banknote transport path 7 is branched at several points, and blades 8a to 8e for switching the banknote transport direction are rotatably provided at those branch points.

[0008] The customer service section 2 will be described. At the entrance of the customer service section 2, a shutter 9 is provided so as to be movable in the vertical direction. By moving the shutter 9 upward, bills can be inserted into the customer service unit 2 or taken out of the customer service unit 2. A bundle transport unit 10 is provided behind the shutter 9. The bundle transport unit 10 includes an upper transport belt 11 and a lower transport belt 12, and both transport belts 11,
At 12, the banknotes are transported in a bundle. The lower conveyor belt 12 is movable in the vertical direction, and approaches and separates from the upper conveyor belt 11. The upper part of the lower conveyor belt 12 forms a storage unit 13 in which bills are stored.

A feed roller 14 is rotatably disposed behind the upper conveyor belt 11, and a lower conveyor belt 12.
A bill press 15 is arranged on the back side of. Building press 1
5 is pressed in the direction of the feeding roller 14 by the spring 16, and when the bill is sent from the customer side, the bill is pinched by the feeding roller 14. When the pay-out roller 14 is rotated clockwise while the bills are held, the bills are fed one by one in the direction of the transport path 7. The bill press 15 can be separated from the feeding roller 14. The feeding roller 14 and the bill press 15 constitute a bill feeding section. A transport roller 17 is provided behind the feeding roller 14.

[0010] The customer service unit 2 is also provided with an accumulation unit 18. FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing the accumulation unit, and is a diagram of the customer service unit 2 as viewed from the left side of FIG. FIG. 3 is a side view showing the stacking unit. 2 and 3, the stacking unit 18 is constituted by a pair of U-shaped banknote receiving units 19 and 20.
The bill receiving portions 19 and 20 are rotatably mounted on arms 21 and 22, respectively, and the arms 21 and 22 are fixed to a shaft 23. The post 30 integrated with the arms 21 and 22 is pushed up by the bill receiving portions 19 and 20 which are moved up and down by a drive motor (not shown), and the arms 21 and 22 are pushed up.
Reference numeral 22 rotates around a shaft 23, and the rotation causes the bill receiving portions 19 and 20 to move up and down from a position indicated by a dotted line to a position indicated by a solid line in FIG.

A shaft 2 is attached to the ends of the arms 21 and 22.
The pressure levers 26 and 27 are rotatably attached to the shafts 24 and 25, respectively. The pressure levers 26 and 27 are mounted on a shaft 28 and rotate about the shaft 28. As shown in FIG. 2, the pressure levers 26 and 27 are disposed inside the bill receiving portions 19 and 20 so that they do not interfere with each other. That is, the arms 21 and 22 are rotated by the up and down movement of the bill receiving portions 19 and 20, and accordingly, the pressure levers 26 and 27 are also rotated about the shaft 28 in the opposite direction of the arms 21 and 22. Banknote receiving unit 19,
When the banknote 20 is raised, the pressure levers 26 and 27 are lowered as shown in FIG. 3, but as shown in FIG. 4, when the banknote receiving portions 19 and 20 are lowered, the pressure levers 26 and 27 are raised. Pressure lever 2
A top plate 29 is arranged between 6 and 27. FIG. 4
FIG. 4 is a side view showing an accumulation unit.

Referring to FIG. 1, the stacking unit 18 includes a bundle conveying unit 10.
And is disposed immediately above the feeding section, so that the arrangement is efficient in terms of space. Thereby, the space for the customer service section 2 is reduced.

FIG. 5 is an arrangement diagram showing the arrangement of the sensors in the customer service section 2. In FIG. 1 and FIG.
Insertion detection sensors 31 and 32 for detecting insertion of a bill, a discharge sensor 33 for detecting that a bill has been taken out, a residual detection sensor 34 for detecting that a bill has remained,
35 and a separation sensor 36 for detecting that the bill has been separated are provided. The two insertion detection sensors 31 and 32 are arranged at the same position with respect to the bill conveyance direction A.

The length from the insertion detecting sensors 31 and 32 to the residual detecting sensor 35 is set to be slightly shorter than the length of the bill to be handled in the longitudinal direction and sufficiently longer than the length of the bill in the transverse direction. This apparatus is of a so-called vertical transport system for transporting bills in the longitudinal direction. As shown in FIG. 1, the transport belt 1 almost reaches the position of the residual detection sensor 35.
The banknotes 1 and 12 are provided. For example, when the tip of the banknote inserted in the deposit transaction is near the residual detection sensor 35, the banknote can be sufficiently conveyed by the conveyor belts 11 and 12.

The customer service section 2 is provided with input guides 37 and 38 for guiding the insertion of bills at the time of payment and side guides 39 and 40 for guiding the bills at the time of bundle transport.

FIG. 6 is a control block diagram of the customer service section according to the present embodiment. 6, a control unit 41 controls the entire operation of the banknote pay-in / pay-out device 1, and a sensor group 42 and a motor drive circuit 43 are connected to the control unit 1. The sensor group 42 is the sensors 31 to 36 shown in FIG. The motor drive circuit 43 drives a bundle transport motor 44 for driving the bundle transport unit 10, a delivery motor 45 for driving the delivery roller 14, and an accumulation motor 46 for rotating the shaft 23 of the accumulation unit 18.

Next, the operation will be described. First, the deposit operation will be described. When the customer presses a deposit key (not shown), the banknote pay-in / pay-out device 1 switches the internal state to the payment mode. At this time, if the lower belt 12 of the bundle transport unit 10 is not in a state of being lowered, it is lowered. In addition, the stacking unit 18 is positioned at an intermediate position (payment standby position) between the position indicated by the dotted line and the position indicated by the solid line in FIG.
That is, the banknote take-in sections 19 and 20 and the pressure levers 26 and 27 of the stacking section 18 are positioned so as not to hinder the payment of banknotes. When the mode is switched to the deposit mode, the shutter 9 is opened, and bills can be inserted.

When the banknote P is inserted by the customer, the insertion is detected by the discharge sensor 33, and the lower belt 12 of the bundle transport unit 10 moves upward, and holds the inserted banknote P together with the upper belt 11. . In this state, the bundle transport motor 44 is driven, and the banknote P is transported leftward as shown in FIG. The control unit 41 checks whether or not the rear end of the bill P has passed the insertion detection sensors 31 and 32 after a lapse of a fixed time after the residual detection sensor 35 has detected the leading end of the bill P. Even if the passage of the trailing end of the bill P is not confirmed by the insertion detection sensors 31 and 32, it is determined that the inserted bill is abnormal and the bundle conveying motor 44 is rotated in the reverse direction to return the bill P to the customer.

The above-mentioned abnormal banknote is a case where the banknote is too long, but the abnormal detection when the banknote is folded in the longitudinal direction and shortened in the transport direction will be described. The insertion detection sensors 31, 3
If the remaining detection sensor 35 does not detect the leading end of the inserted banknote P even after the detection in step 2, the control unit 41 determines that the banknote is too short and in this case also reversely rotates the bundle transport motor 44 to transfer the banknote P. Return to customer. As described above, in this embodiment, an abnormal banknote is detected while the inserted banknote P is being conveyed, so that when an abnormal banknote is detected, it can be immediately returned to the customer.

If no abnormality is detected, the banknote P is sent to the feeding section. Here, the bill P is pressed against the feeding roller 14 by the bill press 15, and when there are a plurality of bills P, the bills P are separated one by one and sent out to the transport path 7 by the transport rollers 17. The fed banknote is sent from the transport path 7a to the discrimination section 4 through the transport path 7b, where the denomination, authenticity, correctness, front / back and transport state are detected, and then sent to the escrow section 3. .

The discriminating unit 4 sends a counterfeit or abnormally transported ticket, that is, a banknote determined to be unacceptable, to the transport path 7d as a rejected banknote and returns it to the customer service unit 2. If the discrimination section 4 determines that the bill is rejected, all bills fed after the determined bill are sent to the feeding section of the customer service section 2 and then fed again one by one to the transport path 7a. If the same bill is rejected a predetermined number of times,
It is sent to the customer service section 2 and returned to the customer.

The counting result counted by the discriminating unit 4 is displayed on a display unit (not shown). When the customer is confirmed, the bills in the escrow unit 3 are fed out one by one to the transport path 7c and sent to the discriminating unit 4. Can be The banknote whose denomination is determined by the discrimination unit 4 is:
The paper money is sent to and stored in the banknote storages 5 and 6 by denomination through the transport paths 7e and 7f.

Next, the dispensing operation will be described. When a withdrawal key (not shown) is pressed by the customer, the banknote deposit / withdrawal device 1 switches the internal state to the withdrawal mode. At this time, the bundle transport unit 1
0 lower belt 12 is lowered downward. In addition, the accumulation unit 1
8 is positioned at the position indicated by the solid line in FIG. That is, the banknote receiving positions of the banknote receiving units 19 and 20 of the stacking unit 18 are positioned so as to be at the same height as the transport path 7a. The bill press 15 in the feeding section is separated from the feeding roller 14. When the withdrawal amount is input after the identity of the customer is confirmed, the withdrawal operation is started.

The bill is fed out from the bill storage 5 or 6 and sent to the discriminating section 4, where it is discriminated. As a result of the discrimination,
The banknote determined to be normal has a customer service section 2 via the transport path 7d.
Sent to the escrow unit 3
Sent to As shown in FIG. 2, both ends of the bills sent to the customer service section 2 enter the bill receiving sections 19 and 20 from the transport path 7d.

When it is confirmed that the banknote P has entered the single banknote receiving units 19 and 20, the accumulation motor 46 is driven to move the banknote receiving units 19 and 20 upward to the position shown by the dotted line in FIG. I do. At the same time, pressure lever 2
6 and 27 rotate downward inside the bill receiving portions 19 and 20. The banknotes P rise at the same time as the banknote receiving units 19 and 20 move upward, but the banknotes P hit the top plate 29 and both ends of the banknotes P are separated from the banknote receiving units 19 and 20. Thereby, the bill P falls into the storage unit 13.

Further, as the pressure levers 26 and 27 rotate downward, the banknotes P that cannot be completely dropped by the top plate 29 are beaten down. Thereby, the banknote P is securely stored in the storage unit 13.

When one banknote P is dropped into the storage unit 13,
The accumulating motor 46 is driven to move the banknote receiving units 19 and 20 from the dotted line position to the solid line position shown in FIG. When the next bill P is sent, both ends of the bill P are taken in the bill taking-in section 19, as described above.
20 and then the bill accepting units 19 and 20 move upward. In this way, each time one bill P is sent, the bill taking-in sections 19 and 20 rise, and the accepted bill is
The bundle is stored in the storage unit 13 on the lower belt 12 of the bundle transport unit 10.

When the number of banknotes designated by the customer is stored in the storage unit 13, the banknote receiving units 19 and 20
Is positioned at an intermediate position (payment standby position) between the position indicated by the dotted line and the position indicated by the solid line. Thereafter, the lower belt 12 of the bundle transport unit 10 moves up, and holds the banknote P together with the upper belt 11. Thereafter, the shutter 9 is opened, the bundle transport motor 44 is driven, and the banknotes P stored in the storage unit 13 are moved.
Are bundled and paid out to customers.

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment, and various modifications are possible. For example, the following modifications can be made to the configuration of the accumulation unit.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a modification of the stacking unit. In FIG. 7, the stacking unit 51 includes a bill accepting unit 52 that takes in a plurality of bills, a direction switching unit 53 that sequentially switches a bill conveying direction to the bill accepting unit 52, and a drop-in member 54 that drops bills from above. . The bill taking-in section 52 is the bill taking-in section 19 of the above embodiment,
As in the case of 20, the bill is configured to hold only both ends, and the position is fixed.

In this modification, every time a bill P is sent, as shown in FIG. 8, the direction switching unit 53 sequentially switches the inlets of the bill accepting unit 52, and the direction of the bill accepting unit 52 is changed.
Are fully filled (5 sheets in FIG. 7), the dropping member 54 descends from above. Thereby, the bills in the bill taking-in section 52 are stored in the storage section (not shown).

FIG. 9 is a view showing another modification of the stacking unit. In FIG. 9, the stacking unit 61 includes a pair of impellers 62,
63. Each of the impellers 62 and 63 is formed with two blades 64 and 65, respectively.
Reference numerals 4 and 65 are formed from elastic members having a certain degree of rigidity.

In the modification shown in FIG. 9, when a bill P is sent, the bill P is placed on one of the blades 64 of each of the impellers 62 and 63. When the bill P is placed, each impeller 6
2, 63 rotate in the direction of the arrow. The blade portion 64 on which the banknote P is placed is rotated downward and retreats, and the other blade portion 65 is retracted.
Strikes the banknote P from above. By this operation, the bill is securely stored in the storage section (not shown).

[0034]

As described above in detail, according to the present invention, a bundle transporting unit that can receive deposited banknotes and transports banknotes in a bundle and a payout unit that feeds out banknotes one by one are arranged in parallel. A stacking section is provided at the top to accumulate banknotes, and a storage section for storing banknotes sent from the transport path is formed by the bundle transport section, resulting in a space-efficient arrangement. The space of the unit can be reduced.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram showing a banknote pay-in / pay-out device according to an embodiment.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram illustrating an accumulation unit.

FIG. 3 is a side view showing an accumulation unit.

FIG. 4 is a side view showing an accumulation unit.

FIG. 5 is a layout diagram showing an arrangement of sensors in a customer service unit.

FIG. 6 is a control block diagram of a customer service unit according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a modified example of an accumulation unit.

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating a modified example of an accumulation unit.

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating another modification of the accumulation unit.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Banknote pay-in / pay-out apparatus 2 Customer service part 7a Conveyance path 10 Bundle conveyance part 11 Upper conveyance belt 12 Lower conveyance belt 13 Storage part 14 Feeding-out roller 18 Stacking part

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A bill receiving and dispensing apparatus having a customer service unit for feeding out input bills one by one into a transport path one by one, accumulating bills sent from the transport path, and transporting the banknotes to a receiving position. A bundle transport unit capable of receiving deposited banknotes and transporting the banknotes in a bundle; and a delivery provided on the transport path side of the bundle transport unit and feeding out the banknotes input to the bundle transport unit one by one to the transport path. A storage unit for storing banknotes, an accumulation unit provided near the upper part of the bundle transport unit and the feeding unit, and receiving the banknotes sent from the transport path and storing the banknotes in the storage unit. A banknote pay-in / pay-out device comprising: 2. The bundle conveying section is constituted by rotatable belts arranged vertically, a lower belt is movable in a direction approaching and separating from an upper belt, and the lower belt is The bill receiving / dispensing device according to claim 1, which constitutes a storage unit. 3. The stacking section is provided on both sides of the bundle transport section and the feeding section so as to be movable in a vertical direction, and moves upward to store bills in the storage section.
The banknote pay-in / pay-out device described in the above. 4. The bill receiving / dispensing apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising a pressure lever for knocking down the bills accumulated in the accumulation section into the storage section. 5. The banknote depositing and dispensing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the stacking unit can stack a plurality of banknotes simultaneously. 6. The banknote according to claim 2, wherein the stacking unit has a blade on which the banknote is placed, and the blade is configured by an impeller that, when rotated, knocks the banknote into the storage unit. Deposit and withdrawal device. 7. A plurality of sensors are arranged so as to cross the bundle transport section, and the plurality of sensors detect an abnormality of the bill before the inserted bill exits the bundle transport section.
The banknote pay-in / pay-out device described in the above.