JP2002008098A - Automatic transaction device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automatic device capable of storing also a newly issued two thousand-yen bill without increasing a stacker. SOLUTION: The stacker is divided into an upper part and a lower part, and a bill accumulation part (a) moving downward corresponding to the accumulation number of bills is installed in the upper part, and plural bill accumulation parts d moving upward successively every time the accumulation number of bills reaches a prescribed number, are installed in the lower part.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an automatic transaction apparatus, and more particularly to a stacker of a banknote pay-in / pay-out machine for storing or feeding out banknotes one by one.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally known automatic transaction apparatuses include a system shown in FIG.
Are provided. Banknotes used in automated teller machines generally have many thousands and thousands of bills. Therefore, the banknote pay-in / pay-out machine has one stacker 3 containing a thousand bills and two stackers containing a million bills. 4 and 5 are provided.

When a bill is inserted from a bill depositing / dispensing port (not shown) provided in the automatic transaction apparatus main body, a customer service unit 1 of the bill depositing / dispensing machine separates the bills one by one, and a transport path 8 is formed. The paper currency is conveyed to the recognizing unit 2, the recognizing unit 2 recognizes each of the bills, and conveys the bills to the stackers 3, 4, and 5 via the conveyance path 8. When the conveyed bill is a thousand bill, the stacker 3 takes in and stores it. When 5,000 bills other than the banknotes set in the stackers 3, 4, and 5 are deposited, they are conveyed to the reject box 7. Conversely, when withdrawing, stackers 3, 4, 5
The banknotes are fed out from the server and conveyed to the customer service unit 1 via the recognition unit 2. When the number of bills in the stackers 3, 4, 5 drops below a certain amount, the replenishment / collection cassette 6 replenishes the bills. Conversely, the bills in the stackers 3, 4, 5 become full. If it is, it is transported to the replenishment / collection cassette 6. Further, when an error such as a poor separation of banknotes occurs in the stacker 4 of the banknotes at the time of dispensing, the banknotes are fed from the stacker 5 in which the same type of banknotes are stored.

[0004]

By the way, as a matter of course, the above-described conventional automatic transaction apparatus has not been provided with a stacker for storing 2,000 bills to be newly issued. In order to enable depositing and withdrawing of 2,000 bills with this kind of automatic transaction apparatus, a new stacker for 2,000 bills is prepared, or any of the two stackers 4, 5 prepared for thousands of bills is used. Is used as a stacker for 2,000 tickets.In the former case, there is no space to add a stacker because the automatic transaction device is downsized due to installation space, etc., and in the latter case, 2,000 tickets Can be withdrawn and withdrawn,
If there were few transactions with 2,000 tickets, the stacker could be wasted.

[0005] When one stacker for thousands of tickets is used as a stacker for two thousand tickets, particularly when an error such as poor separation occurs in the stacker for many transactions, it is necessary to recover the error. Paying out the stacker bills,
On the contrary, there is a problem that it cannot be stored.

[0006]

An automatic transaction apparatus according to the present invention is an automatic transaction apparatus having a stacker for storing or feeding out bills in accordance with a transaction with a customer, wherein the stacker is divided into an upper part and a lower part. , The upper part is provided with a bill stacking part that moves downward according to the number of bills stacked,
In the lower part, a plurality of bill stacking units are provided which sequentially move upward each time the number of stacked bills reaches a predetermined number.

In the present invention, a bill stacking section is provided at the upper portion of the stacker, the bill stacking section moving downward according to the number of bills stacked,
Since a plurality of banknote stacking units which move sequentially upward each time the stacking number of banknotes reaches a predetermined number is provided at the lower portion of the stacker, it is possible to store or feed out the same type of banknotes or different types of banknotes. Therefore, it is possible to use newly issued 2,000 bills without increasing the number of stackers.

[0008]

FIG. 1 is a side view showing a configuration of a stacker of a bill receiving / dispensing machine in an automatic transaction apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a bill of the automatic transaction apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the structure of the depositing / dispensing machine, and FIG. In addition,
The same or corresponding parts as in the conventional example described with reference to FIG. The automatic transaction apparatus according to the present embodiment is provided with a passbook insertion / ejection port 21, a card insertion / ejection port 22, a coin deposit / withdrawal port 23, a banknote deposit / withdrawal port 24, a customer operation unit 25, and the like as shown in FIG. Has a banknote pay-in / pay-out device having a block configuration shown in FIG.

This banknote pay-in / pay-out device has the same customer service section 1, recognition section 2, replenishment / collection cassette 6, reject box 7, and transport path 8 as described above, and the same or different banknotes at the upper and lower parts. Stackers 11, 1 stored
2 and 13 and a memory 14 and a control unit 15 which will be described later. As shown in FIG. 1, each of the stackers 11, 12, and 13 is provided with a banknote stacking unit a that moves downward in accordance with the number of banknotes stacked, and a lower portion each time the number of stacked banknotes reaches a predetermined number. A plurality of banknote stacking units d that sequentially move upward are provided.

At the upper part of each of the stackers 11, 12, and 13, the bill accumulating unit a moves upward and the bills are fed one by one when the bills come into contact with each other. When it is fed out, it is sent to the conveyance path 8,
When the banknote arrives via the transport path 8, a feed roller c that takes in the banknote and accumulates it in the banknote accumulating unit a is provided. In the lower part, when the lowest banknote stacking unit d among the plurality of banknote stacking units d in which the banknotes are stacked has risen to a predetermined position, the lowermost banknote stacking unit d moves to a position above the banknote stacking unit d and contacts the banknotes one by one. A feeding roller e for feeding bills and a feed roller f having the same function as the upper feed roller c are provided.

Each of the stackers 11, 12, 13 is provided with an upper storage section m and a lower storage section n. Among them, the upper storage section m is composed of the bill stacking section a and the lowest bill stacking section d.
Has a space capable of accommodating the remaining banknote stacking section d except for the above, and the lower storage section n has a space capable of housing all of the banknote stacking section d. When the banknote stacking units a and d are stored in the upper storage unit m, the feeding roller b moves to a position indicated by a broken line.

Further, various sensors (not shown) are provided on the upper and lower portions of each of the stackers 11, 12, and 13, for example, feed rollers b and e and feed rollers c and f.
A sensor for detecting the operating state of each motor (not shown)
A sensor for detecting a feeding failure of the banknotes by the feeding rollers b and e, a sensor for detecting a stop position of the banknote stacking units a and d, a sensor for detecting a full state of the banknotes stacked on the banknote stacking units a and d, and the like are arranged. Have been.

The upper banknote stacking unit a has a vertical moving area set in accordance with the frequency of entering and exiting banknotes, and the lower banknote stacking unit d has a quantity (number of sheets) according to the moving area of the upper banknote stacking unit a. ) Is set.

Each of the stackers 11, 12,
A plurality of error codes in which various errors that may occur in the upper and lower parts of the code 13 are stored.
The types of banknotes accumulated in the upper banknote stacking section a and the lower banknote stacking section d of each of the stackers 11, 12, 13 are stored as data. Further, the memory 14 stores a control program for controlling the transport path 8 and the stackers 11, 12, 13 and the like in accordance with bill depositing and dispensing, replenishment and collection of bills, and the like.

The control unit 15 comprises, for example, a microcomputer,
The control program is executed in accordance with the deposit and withdrawal of bills. When a bill is inserted into the bill depositing / dispensing port 24 of the automatic transaction apparatus, it is controlled so as to be stored in the upper or lower part of the corresponding stacker from the customer service unit 1 via the recognition unit 2, Recognition unit 2 from the top or bottom of the stacker
Is controlled to be conveyed to the customer service unit 1 via the storage unit, and when the bill at the top or bottom of the stacker becomes full, the recognition unit 2
Through the replenishment / collection cassette 6, and when the bill in the upper or lower part of any of the stackers is in a shortage state, it corresponds from the replenishment / collection cassette 6 via the recognition unit 2. The stacker is controlled to be stored in the upper or lower part of the stacker, and when a counterfeit note is detected through the recognition unit 2 during bill conveyance, the bill is conveyed to the reject box 7 or the customer service unit 1.

The control section 15 has an error stacker discriminating section 16 and an alternative stacker discriminating section 17 according to the present invention. When an error signal is input during the feeding, an error code is set from the error signal. This error code is set corresponding to various error signals, and is stored in the memory 14. After the error code is set, the memory 14 is accessed to determine whether the same error code is stored. If the same error code does not exist, it is determined that the signal is not a signal from the activated stacker 11. If the same error code exists when the feeding of bills is continued, the memory 14 is accessed again to determine whether there is another stacker containing bills of the same type. When there is no stacker in which the same type of banknotes are stored, the upper or lower portion of the activated stacker is stopped, and the feeding of the banknotes is terminated. Further, when there is a stacker in which the same type of bills are stored, the upper or lower part of the stacker that caused the error is stopped, and the upper or lower part of the corresponding stacker is activated to continue feeding the bills.

When an error is detected while bills are being collected from either the upper part or the lower part of the stacker, control is made so that the bills are paid out from the other side, and the bill paying-out position (upper or lower). (Lower), empty banknote stackers a and b are stored in either the upper storage m or the lower storage n.

For example, when an error is detected while all the bills (first and second bills) in the stacker 11 are being conveyed from the lower portion to the replenishment / collection cassette 6, the lower feed roller e is driven. The banknote is stopped and the upper feeding roller b is activated so that the banknotes are fed from the uppermost banknote stacking section where the banknotes are stacked. When the banknotes on the banknote stacking unit become empty, the feeding roller b is moved to the position shown by the broken line to store the banknote stacking unit in the upper storage unit m, and all the banknotes in the stacker 11 are collected. It repeats in order until it is done. In the reverse case, the feeding roller e is activated to feed the bill from the lowest bill stacking unit, and when the bill is empty, the feeding roller e is moved to a predetermined position (FIG. 1).
(A)) The empty banknote stacking unit is stored in the lower storage unit n.

When all the banknotes in the stackers 11, 12, 13 are transported to the replenishment / collection cassette 6, it can be carried out from either the upper part or the lower part.
It is set in advance so that bills are fed out from the upper part or the lower part for each of 12 and 13. This is designed to pay out bills from the side where the distance of the transport path 8 to the replenishment / collection cassette 6 is short, and to shorten the collection time.

Here, the flow of bills at the time of deposit and withdrawal, and at the time of replenishment and collection will be described with reference to FIGS.
FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the path of a bill at the time of deposit, and FIG.
Is a flowchart showing the path of the banknote at the time of dispensing, FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the path of the banknote at the time of replenishment, and FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the path of the banknote at the time of collection.

When bills are inserted into the bill depositing / dispensing port 24 in accordance with the guidance message of the customer operation unit 25 of the automatic transaction apparatus, the bills are separated one by one by the customer service unit 1 as shown in FIG. Is transported to the recognizing unit 2.
At this time, the conveyed bill is recognized, and when the bill is a thousand bill, it is conveyed to the upper portion of the stacker 11 and is accumulated in the bill accumulating portion a. The bills are accumulated in the bill accumulation section d being accumulated. When the bill is 5,000 bills, the bill is conveyed to the lower portion of the stacker 12 and is accumulated in the bill accumulating unit d in the same manner as described above. When the bill is a banknote, for example, the stacker 13 activated by the control unit 15 is used.
Is conveyed to the upper portion of the bill stacking section a. The counterfeit banknote is conveyed to the customer service section 1 as shown by the broken line, discharged from the banknote deposit / withdrawal port 24, and returned to the customer.

At the time of withdrawal by operation of the customer operation unit 25, bills are fed by the feeding rollers b or e of the corresponding stacker (see FIG. 5). For example, when a bill is instructed, the bill is fed from the bill stacking unit a at the top of the stacker 11,
When two thousand notes are instructed, the bill is fed from the lowermost banknote stacking unit d of the banknote stack provided at the lower part of the stacker 11, and
When a 5,000 ticket is instructed, it is fed out from the lower portion of the stacker 12 in the same manner as described above. Further, when the user designates a ticket, the ticket is fed from either the upper portion of the stacker 12 or the upper or lower portion of the stacker 13. Then, the fed banknote is recognized by the recognition unit 2, and if the banknote is instructed, the banknote is conveyed to the customer service unit 1. If not, the banknote is conveyed to the reject box 7 as indicated by a broken line.

At the time of replenishment, bills are fed out of the replenishment / collection cassette 6 as shown in FIG. Then, the sheets are conveyed to the corresponding stackers 11, 12, and 13. When replenishment is completed at the time of recognition of the bill, the bill is conveyed to the replenishment / collection cassette 6. When the bill is recognized as a counterfeit note, it is conveyed to the reject box 7 as shown by the broken line.

At the time of collection, for example, as shown in FIG. 7, bills are fed from a preset position (upper or lower) for each of the stackers 11, 12, and 13. In the stacker 11, first, the bills of one thousand bills stacked in the bill stacking unit a are fed out from the upper part, and then the two thousand bills stacked in each bill stacking part d are sequentially fed out from the upper part. When the dispensing of two thousand notes is completed, first five thousand notes are dispensed sequentially from the lower part of the stacker 12, and then ten thousand notes are dispensed from the lower part. At the time of completion, the banknotes in the stacker 13 are sequentially fed out from the bottom in the same manner as the stacker 12. The fed-out banknotes are recognized one by one by the recognition unit 2, and when the banknotes are genuine, they are conveyed to the replenishment / collection cassette 6, and when the banknotes are counterfeit, the reject box is passed through a conveyance path 8 indicated by a broken line. 7.

When the banknotes on the banknote stackers a and d provided in each of the stackers 11, 12, and 13 become full, the banknotes are collected in the replenishment / collection cassette 6 each time.
For example, in the stacker 11, when each of the two thousand bills on the bill stacking unit d becomes full, the bills are fed from the bill on the lowest bill stacking unit d, and this is sequentially repeated for each bill stacking unit d. Done.

Next, the operation when an error occurs in the stacker will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing the operation when an error occurs in the stacker. For example, when an error signal is input while the lower part of the stacker 11 is activated to pay out 2,000 bills (S1), an error code is set from the error signal (S2). Then, the memory 14 is accessed to search whether the same error code is stored (S
3). If the same error code does not exist in the memory 14 (S4), it is determined that the error signal is not an error signal from the lower part of the activated stacker 11, and the payout of 2,000 tickets is continued, and this operation ends. If the same error code exists (S4), the memory 14 is accessed again to determine whether or not there is another stacker containing the same type of banknote (two thousand bills) (S5). In this case, since 2,000 bills are stored only in the lower part of the stacker 11, it is determined that there is no stacker storing the same kind of bills, and the activated lower part of the stacker 11 is stopped ( S
9) End the feeding of the bill.

When an error signal is input while the upper part of the stacker 12 is activated to feed out a banknote (S1), an error code is set from the error signal (S2), and the memory 14 is set. To search whether the same error code is stored (S3).
If the same error code does not exist in the memory 14 (S4), it is determined that the error signal is not an error signal from the upper portion of the stacker 12 as in the above, and the payout is continued, and this operation ends. If the same error code exists (S4), the memory 14 is accessed again to determine whether or not there is another stacker containing the same type of bill (10,000 notes) (S5). If there is no stacker containing the same kind of banknotes, the feeding operation from the upper portion of the activated stacker 12 is stopped in the same manner as described above (S
9) When there is a stacker in which the same kind of banknotes are stored, the feeding operation of the upper portion of the activated stacker 12 is stopped, and the upper or lower portion of the corresponding stacker is activated (S6, S7). In this case, the stacker 13
Since the banknotes of the banknotes are stored in the upper part and the lower part of the banknote, one of them is activated to feed out the banknotes of the banknote. At this time,
When the stacker 13 is activated, it is determined whether or not an error signal has been input (S8). When the error signal is detected, the same operation is repeated from step 2 when the error signal is input. The operation on the stacker 13 side is held, and this operation ends.

Further, for example, when an error is detected while all the bills (million bills) in the stacker 13 are being conveyed from below to the replenishment / collection cassette 6, not shown,
The driving of the lower feeding roller e is stopped, and the upper feeding roller b is started. Then, the uppermost banknote stacking section on which the banknotes are stacked is moved upward to bring the banknotes into contact with the feeding roller b, and the banknotes are again fed. When the banknotes on the banknote stacking unit become empty, the feeding roller b is moved to the position shown by the broken line to store the banknote stacking unit in the upper storage unit m, and all the banknotes in the stacker 13 are collected. It repeats in order until it is done.

As described above, in the present embodiment, the same or different types of banknotes can be entered and exited from the upper and lower portions of the stacker. Therefore, 2,000 bills to be newly issued without increasing the number of stackers. There is an effect that can also be used. In addition, if an error occurs in the stacker while the banknotes are being fed or stored, another stacker storing the same type of banknotes can be activated to feed out or store the same type of banknotes. There is an effect that the pause rate can be reduced. Furthermore, since the upper storage section m for storing the banknote stacking section is also provided on the upper side of the stacker, even if an error occurs during the collection of banknotes in the stacker, all banknotes can be fed from the other side. effective.

In the above-described embodiment, when an error occurs in the stacker while the banknote is being fed, only the activation of another stacker storing the same type of banknote has been described. Also, when an error occurs in the stacker during the operation, another stacker storing the same kind of bill can be selected and activated based on the flowchart of FIG.

[0031]

As described above, according to the present invention, the stacker is divided into an upper part and a lower part, and a bill stacking part which moves downward according to the number of bills to be stacked is provided at the upper part, and the number of bills to be stacked is set at the lower part. Since a plurality of bill stacking units are sequentially moved upward each time a predetermined number is reached, it is possible to store or feed out the same kind of bill or different kinds of bills. There is an effect that 2,000 bills to be issued can be used.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side view showing a configuration of a stacker of a banknote pay-in / pay-out device in an automatic transaction apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a banknote pay-in / pay-out device of the automatic transaction apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing an appearance of the automatic transaction apparatus according to the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a path of a bill at the time of deposit.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a path of a bill at the time of dispensing.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a path of a bill at the time of replenishment.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a path of a bill at the time of collection.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart illustrating an operation when an error occurs in the stacker.

FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a banknote pay-in / pay-out device of a conventional automatic transaction apparatus.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11, 12, 13 Stacker 14 Memory 15 Control unit 16 Error stacker discriminating unit 17 Alternative stacker discriminating unit a, d Bill stacking unit b, e Feeding roller c, f Feeding roller m Upper storage unit n Lower storage unit

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Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. An automatic transaction apparatus having a stacker for storing or feeding out banknotes in accordance with a transaction with a customer, wherein the stacker is divided into an upper part and a lower part, and the upper part is provided with a lower part according to the number of stacked banknotes. An automatic transaction apparatus is provided with a banknote stacking unit that moves upwardly and a plurality of banknote stacking units that sequentially move upward each time the number of stacked banknotes reaches a predetermined number. 2. A vertically moving area of a bill stacking section is set at an upper portion of the stacker in accordance with a bill entering / exiting frequency.
2. The automatic transaction apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the number of the bill stacking unit is set in the lower part according to a moving area of the upper bill stacking unit. 3. 3. The automatic transaction apparatus according to claim 1, wherein storage units for storing respective banknote stacking units are provided at an upper portion and a lower portion of the stacker. 4. The contents of various errors that can occur in the upper and lower portions of the stacker are set in advance as data, and when an input of an error signal is detected, the error contents are determined from the error signal, and the error contents are determined by the error signal. An error stacker determination unit that determines whether or not the data is present in the data, and determines that an error has occurred in the driving stacker when the data is present in the data. Set as data, it is determined from the data whether a banknote of the same type as the banknote stored in the upper or lower part of the stacker determined as an error by the error stacker determination unit is stored in the upper or lower part of another stacker. ,
4. An alternative stacker discriminating section for activating the upper or lower part of the stacker in which the same kind of banknotes are stored when the upper or lower part of the stacker is present. Automatic transaction equipment. 5. The alternative stacker discriminating unit, when a bill is collected from any one of an upper portion and a lower portion of the stacker, and when an error is detected through the error stacker discriminating unit, the banknote is discarded from the other one. The automatic transaction apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the automatic transaction apparatus is controlled so that the banknotes are fed out, and an empty banknote stacking section is stored in any of the storage sections according to a banknote payout position.