JP2001067526A - Sales reception machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To omit a means for newly preparing preparation money for the next day by storing a designated reception amount when the desired reception amount is designated, discriminating denomination of a supplied coin, sequentially executing subtraction, executing a reception processing only on the designated amount, sending excessive paper money to a paper money reject part and collecting the coins from a hopper. SOLUTION: When 532,900 yen is inputted as a designated amount, denominations of paper moneys P which are placed on an insertion part 4 and are in a state where the denominations are mixed are discriminated one by one by a pay-out discrimination means 16. Subtraction is executed at every denomination discrimination from the designated amount as the amount operation of balance. It is continued until the amount reaches the designated mount or the paper moneys P placed on the insertion part 4 are eliminated. When the paper money which is sent next is 1,000 yen paper money in the state where the paper money for 531,000 yen are sent to a temporary holding part 17 of the storage means, all paper moneys which are sent later are sent to a paper money reject part 18. A coin processing part 2 also executes a processing following the processing of a paper money processing part 1.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a dedicated money depositing machine, and particularly when a real money and a change reserve are mixed, for example, the actual money is designated and input as a desired money. Accordingly, the present invention relates to a sales depositing machine which can deposit only an input amount, that is, an actual sales amount of the actual sales amount plus a change reserve.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a sales depositing machine having a function of depositing sales in a store, such as a supermarket, a retail store, etc.
Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 266693 discloses a technique.

[0003] The sales depositing machine described in this publication has a bill processing unit and a coin processing unit, and deposits all of the inserted bills and coins.

[0004]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional sales depositing machine, all of the inserted bills and coins are processed for depositing. When change reserves are included in addition to money, it is not possible to respond to a request for depositing only the actual sales amount.

The present invention focuses on the above-mentioned problems of the prior art,
In order to improve this, it was made as a problem, when the desired deposit amount is specified, the designated deposit amount is stored, the denomination of the inserted money is determined, and the subtraction is sequentially performed, It is an object of the present invention to provide a sales depositing machine in which only a designated amount of money is deposited, surplus money is collected to a bill rejecting unit, and coins are collected from a hopper.

[0006]

According to the present invention, as a means for solving the above-mentioned problems, bills placed in a denomination-mixed state are fed out one by one and sent to a bill denomination discriminating means. A bill processing unit for sending bills to the bill storage means for deposit processing, and collectively accepting coins in a denomination mixed state in a hopper, sending the coins one by one to a coin denomination discriminating means, and after completing the denomination, In a sales depositing machine provided with a coin processing unit for sending coins to a coin storage unit and performing deposit processing, a deposit amount specifying unit for designating and inputting a desired deposit amount, and a deposit amount input by the deposit amount specifying unit. When a deposit amount is input by the deposit amount storage unit and the deposit amount specifying unit, a first processing command is first given to the bill processing unit, and the bill denomination unit discriminates the denomination of the bill. Each time the payment is made, The banknote processing unit is allowed to continue processing until the difference becomes zero or the placed banknotes are exhausted by sequentially subtracting from the received deposit amount, and when the difference does not become zero, the coin processing unit is continued. A second processing command is given, and each time the coin denomination discriminating means discriminates the denomination of the coin, the subtraction is sequentially subtracted from the difference, and the difference becomes zero or a predetermined difference remaining state is reached. And control means for controlling to release the second processing command.

[0007] Thus, for example, if the actual sales amount is designated, only the actual sales amount is deposited, and the money corresponding to the change reserve initially prepared is left in the store. Therefore, it is possible to omit a means for preparing a change fund for the next day.

The bill processing unit has a bill rejecting unit, and the control means sends an excess bill when subtracting from the deposit amount stored in the deposit amount storing means to the bill rejecting unit, and Preferably, when the denomination discriminating means determines that the coin is an unsuitable denomination, the coin is controlled to return the coin to the hopper.

In this way, it is possible to easily collect surplus money and increase the probability of reaching the designated amount.

[0010]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described below with reference to embodiments shown in the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows the external appearance of an embodiment of a sales depositing machine according to the present invention. FIG. 2 (A) schematically shows the bill processing unit 1 and FIG. 2 (B) schematically shows the coin processing unit 2. It is shown as a sectional view.

A bill insertion part 4 having a feeding mechanism for inserting and mounting bills P in a denomination-mixed state and separating and feeding the bills one by one is provided at the back side of the upper surface of the machine body 3 of the sales depositing machine. On one side of the bill insertion part 4, a journal part 5 is provided.
On the other side, a power switch 6 is provided.
A display operation unit 7 is provided in front of these, and a card reader 8 for reading an operator's ID card is further provided in front of them.
A coin hopper 9 for inserting coins is provided.

A bill rejecting port 10 for discharging rejected bills is provided on one side of the front upper part of the machine body 3, and a coin return port 11 is provided on the other side. The lower body front surface can be opened and closed by a front door 12 so that a bill cassette 13 and a coin cassette 14 in the body 3 can be taken in and out.

The display operation unit 7 has a deposit amount designating means for designating a desired deposit amount, and has a deposit amount storing means for storing the deposit amount inputted by the deposit amount designating means.

As shown schematically in FIG. 2A, the banknote processing unit 1 has a transport path 15 for transporting the banknotes P fed from the banknote insertion unit 4, and a paper path 15 in the middle of the transport path 15. A bill discriminating means 16 for discriminating the denomination of the bill P, a bill temporary holding unit 17 branched from the downstream side of the discriminating means 16 to temporarily hold the discriminated bill, and a bill reject port branched to the other side. A bill rejecting unit for returning rejected bills to the bill storage unit; and a bill storage cassette for collectively receiving the bills from the bill temporary storing unit based on a storage command. The cassette 13 constitutes a bill storage means.

As shown schematically in FIG. 2B, the coin processing unit 2 includes a rotating disk 19 in the hopper 9 for coin insertion.
(See FIG. 3), a coin escrow unit 20 for receiving and temporarily storing coins C, a coin return box 21 below the escrow unit 20 for receiving returned coins, and a temporarily stored coin C based on a storage command. And a coin cassette 14 for receiving the coin.
And constitute coin storage means.

The coin escrow unit 20 includes a bottomless frame-shaped escrow box 23 for receiving coins C from the rotating disk 19 through the coin passage 22. The escrow box 23 is a driving means (not shown) on the bottom plate 24. The bottom plate 24 is made blind at a receiving position (a central position shown by a solid line in FIG. 2B) for receiving the coin C from the rotating disk 19, and the coin cassette 14 Openings 25 and 26 are formed in the bottom plate 24 immediately above the return box 21 so as to be aligned with the temporary storage box 23.
When the coin C moves up, the coin C inside falls down,
The coin is stored in the coin cassette 14 or the return box 21.

From the rotating disk 19 to the temporary storage box 23
The transport path for sending the coin C to the coin path 22 includes a coin path 22 and a belt 27 for pressing the upper surface of the coin C sent out onto the coin path 22 to transport the coin C. Is provided with coin discriminating means 28 for discriminating the denomination of coin C. When discrimination of the denomination determines that the coin is an unsuitable denomination, the belt 27 is reversed to discard the coin C. Is returned to the rotating disk 19 to perform a retry operation.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing the control contents of the control unit 30 for controlling each of the above operations, and FIG. 5 is a flowchart.

The above-described control will be described with reference to this flowchart. The designated payment mode is selected (step S
₁ ) Press the designated deposit button of the display / operation unit 7 (step S ₂ ), read the ID card of the operator, or input a password (step ₃ ) as necessary, and then use the display / operation unit 7 to set the designated amount. Input (step ₄ ). Thereby, the input deposit amount is stored in the deposit amount storage means.

Next, press the star and button (step
₅ ) The difference amount is calculated (step ₆ ), and it is determined whether or not the bill P is present in the insertion section 4 (step ₇ ). If the bill P is present, the payout mechanism is operated to dispose the bill. The discrimination means 16 starts discrimination counting (step S ₈ ).

As a result, it is determined whether or not the difference amount has been reached (step ₉ ). When the difference amount has been reached, subsequent bills are sent to the bill rejecting section 18 (step ₁₀ ). Yet when not reach the feed to the storage means (step _11), where it is checked whether the bill insertion portion 4 (step _12), step if the banknote is present ₉
To return, counting of bills is stopped in the absence (step S _13).

Here, the difference is subtracted (step ₁₄ ).
When the difference reaches a fraction in bills, the bill depositing process ends.

On the other hand, when the confirmation button in the display operation unit 7 is depressed (step _15), the receipt is issued (step _{S 16),} the deposit operation is completed.

With respect to coins, upon completion of the bill deposit processing, the coins C inserted into the coin hopper 9 are fed out one by one from the rotating disk 19, and discrimination counting is started by the discriminating means 28 (step). S ₁₇ ), it is determined whether or not the difference amount has been reached (step ₁₈ ). If reached, the coin batch is stopped (step S ₁₉ ). If not, the coin batch is sent to the storage means (step ₂₀ ). .

[0026] Then the presence or absence of the coin on the rotary disk 19 is checked (step S _21), returns to step S ₁₈ in the case of coins Yes, in the case of coins no coin counting is stopped (Step S ₂₂₎ .

Next, a specific example of the above operation will be described.

It is assumed that the daily sales of the store in which the above-mentioned sales depositing machine is installed is 532,900 yen, and one of various denomination configurations in which this sales amount is deposited as a designated amount. A typical example will be described. In this case, the total amount of bills and coins to be put into the deposit machine is
Since the sum of the actual sales amount and the change reserve amount originally prepared at the store side is always “input amount> specified amount”.

[0029] In step _{S 4} 53 million in 29
Enter 00 yen.

By pushing down the start button in step S ₅ , the banknotes P in the denomination mixed state placed on the insertion section 4 are fed out one by one, and the denomination is determined by the determination means 16.

Along with the discrimination of the denomination, subtraction is performed from the designated amount for each denomination as the calculation of the amount of the difference, and the calculation is continued until the designated amount is reached or the bills P placed in the insertion section 4 are exhausted. (In this example, the designated amount is not reached because there is a fraction of 900 yen in a bill unit.)

In the state where the difference is 1900 yen, that is, in the state where 531,000 yen of bills have already been sent to the temporary holding section 17 of the storage means, the next bill sent to the discriminating means 16 is 1000 yen. If it is a bill, the difference is 900 yen. If the continuation is longer than this, the specified amount will be exceeded, so that all bills subsequently sent to the discriminating means 16 will be sent to the bill rejection unit 18.

In the state where the difference is 1900 yen, when the next bills sent to the discriminating means 16 are not 5,000-yen bills but 5,000-yen bills and ten-thousand-yen bills, these bills are rejected by the bill rejection unit. 18 and this operation is repeated until a 1,000-yen bill is sent. If the bill placed in the insertion section 4 before the 1,000-yen bill is exhausted, the processing in the bill processing unit 1 ends with the difference of 1900 yen.

When the processing in the banknote processing unit 1 ends in a state where the difference is 900 yen, the processing in the coin processing unit 2 is started in order to allocate the 900 yen to the coins (step S _17). ).

When the processing in the banknote processing section 1 is completed with the difference of 1900 yen as described above, this 19
00 yen will be allocated with coins.

The coin processing unit 2 also includes the bill processing unit 1
The processing according to the processing in is performed. However, the difference is that the banknote processing unit 1 performs rejection processing, while the coin processing unit 2 performs retry processing.
The retry process is a process of returning the coin denomination to the rotating disk 19 in the coin hopper 9 without rejecting the coin when the coin denomination is not appropriate when the coin denomination is determined.

For example, when the difference reaches 100 yen, the denomination of the coin sent to the coin discriminating means 28 is 500
If the coin is a yen coin, if it is accepted, the specified amount of money will be exceeded. In this case, the retry process is performed and the 500 yen coin is returned to the rotating disk 19.

It should be noted that if the above retry processing is repeatedly performed unnecessarily, the time until the processing ends becomes long. Therefore, in this example, the upper limit of the number of retries is set to three times.

If the difference does not become "0" even after performing the retry processing three times, the processing ends at that point, and
The remaining difference will be replenished manually.

As described above, a typical example has been described. However, if the deposit processing is completed only with the banknote processing that has reached the designated amount using only the banknotes, the coin processing is naturally not performed. Further, in the present embodiment, the surplus bills are sent to the reject unit 18 and collected, but, for example, the feeding of the insertion unit 4 may be stopped and the surplus bills may be collected from the insertion unit 4. Further, a case has been described in which processing with bills is continued up to a fraction in bills.
00 yen may be allocated with coins.

The above-described sales depositing machine naturally has a normal depositing mode for depositing all of the inserted bills and coins without designating the deposit amount.

The designated deposit mode in the present embodiment is a mode in which when the amount to be deposited is input to the machine, the deposit is automatically made in accordance with the designated amount and stopped.
As an application of the designated payment mode, for example, there is a case where it is desired to collectively pay the daily sales. In the case where the sales are to be paid in small amounts each time, the normal payment mode is used instead of the designated payment mode. The use of the designated deposit mode eliminates the necessity of sorting the sales at the store, that is, the operation of sorting the actual sales and the change reserve.

[0043]

As described above, according to the present invention, since an amount corresponding to a part of the total amount of money to be inserted is designated and the deposit processing can be performed, for example, the actual sales amount is designated. In that case, only the actual sales amount will be deposited, and the amount of money equivalent to the originally prepared change reserve will be left at the store side, so it is necessary to prepare a change reserve for the next day again Is eliminated, and an effect that the trouble for that can be saved is produced.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing the appearance of an embodiment of the present invention.

2A is a schematic sectional view of a bill processing unit in FIG. 1, and FIG. 2B is a schematic sectional view of a coin processing unit.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged plan view showing a rotating disk portion in the coin hopper in FIG. 2 (B).

FIG. 4 is a control block diagram.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Banknote processing part 2 Coin processing part 4 Banknote insertion part 7 Display operation part 9 Coin hopper 10 Banknote reject port 11 Coin return port 13 Banknote cassette 14 Coin cassette 16 Banknote discriminating means 17 Banknote temporary holding part 18 Banknote rejection part 19 Rotating disk Reference Signs List 20 coin holding unit 21 coin return box 23 holding box 28 coin discriminating means 30 control unit

Claims (2)

[Claims] A bill processing unit for feeding out bills placed in a denomination mixed state one by one and sending them to bill denomination discriminating means, and sending the bills to bill storage means after completion of the denomination discrimination processing; A coin processing unit for collectively receiving coins in a denomination mixed state into a hopper, sending the coins one by one to a coin denomination discriminating unit, and sending the coin to a coin storage unit after completion of the denomination discrimination processing; In the receivable depositing machine provided with, a deposit amount specifying means for designating and inputting a desired deposit amount, a deposit amount storing means for storing the deposit amount input by the deposit amount specifying means, and a deposit amount storing means for storing the deposit amount input by the deposit amount specifying means. When the amount is input, the first processing instruction is first given to the bill processing unit, and each time the bill denomination discriminating unit discriminates the denomination of the bill from the deposit amount stored in the deposit amount storage unit. Whether the difference is reduced to zero and The banknote processing unit is made to continue processing until the loaded banknotes are exhausted. If the difference does not become zero, a second processing command is subsequently given to the coin processing unit. Control means for sequentially subtracting from the difference each time the denomination is determined, and controlling to release the second processing command when the difference becomes zero or a predetermined difference remaining state is reached. A sales depositing machine characterized by the following. 2. The bill processing unit has a bill rejecting unit, and the control unit sends an excess bill when subtracting from the deposit amount stored in the deposit amount storing unit to the bill rejecting unit, 2. The sales according to claim 1, wherein when the coin denomination discriminating means judges that the coin is an unsuitable denomination when the coin is denominated, control is performed to return the coin to the hopper. Money deposit machine.