JP2003346213A - Paper money handling device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an outer wall installation type automatic teller machine having a paying-in/out hole exposed to the outside air capable of preventing rainwater from intruding into the inside of the device. <P>SOLUTION: This device is equipped with a shutter 302 provided on the paying-in/out hole for depositing and dispensing the paper money so as to be almost horizontally opened and closed, and a draining means 315 for guiding and draining the rainwater dropped onto the paying-in/out hole to the outside of the device. An aqueous film is coated on a surface of the shutter exposed to the outside air. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a banknote handling apparatus for directly receiving and paying cash.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Among various ATMs, there is an ATM of a wall embedded type in consideration of crime prevention or the like. This wall embedded type ATM
Only the operation surface (front face) where the user performs various transaction operations and inserts cards and passbooks is exposed to the outside of the wall, and all other parts (housing body) are inside the wall. It is installed in. Usually, the housing of an ATM embedded in a wall is a substantially rectangular parallelepiped, and an operation surface is arranged substantially parallel to a vertical surface of the housing.

[0003] As a prior art of the wall-embedded ATM, there is, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. H11-232527. In this prior art, a wall-embedded ATM is generally used as a 6 ATM.
When installed on a 13-inch thick wall which is thicker than an inch-thick wall, a transfer unit with an increased length of 7 inches is provided,
A configuration for transporting the bill from the operation surface to a bill processing unit is disclosed. In the case of this wall-embedded ATM, the front face portion is almost vertical, so when the user withdraws cash, the cash is almost perpendicular to the front face portion, that is, from the user. It is supposed to withdraw money on an almost horizontal operation surface.

[0004] When dispensing cash, it is easy to take out one or a plurality of bills ejected almost horizontally by grasping the bills with a finger and pulling them toward the user. In the case of such a configuration, the size of the opening for dispensing is determined by the maximum number of cash dispensed, for example, in addition to the bill thickness of 50 sheets, the end of the dispensed banknote is not caught. The slit may have a thickness of about 10 mm, for example, a slit having a thickness of about 10 mm. The tip of the bill is 3
If it protrudes from the opening by about 0 mm, it can be easily grasped with a finger and pulled out.

[0005] In the case of an opening that is opened horizontally, the influence of the temperature of the outside air is less likely to reach the inside of the device because the size of the opening is small. However, there is no stagnation of rainwater in the opening, and it is difficult for rainwater to enter the inside of the device from the opening.

[0006] In a depositing and dispensing port in which the shutter is a vertical surface, rain which hits the shutter is collected on a rail portion below the shutter without using a sealing material as disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 6-282724. A configuration is disclosed in which a drain port is provided in a rail to drain water to the outside.

However, the following problems occur when depositing bills into a horizontally opened mouth. For example, when a banknote with a weak waist or a folded banknote is to be deposited, the end portion or the folded portion of the banknote hangs down, so that the banknote is likely to be caught in the opening. In particular, if a large number of banknotes are aligned horizontally and inserted into the opening to try to deposit at one time, it is difficult to insert them with one hand, and it is very inconvenient to deposit with both hands.

On the other hand, as described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2000-172946, a device in which a banknote receiving and dispensing section is arranged so that the banknote is stored in an upright position is conventionally used by a user to deposit money. It is a configuration that can perform both operations of dispensing and dispensing, and is widely and generally used in a form in which the device is installed indoors.

In the automatic cash handling apparatus having the above-described structure, the banknote storing section stores the banknotes in the upright position, so that the shutter of the cash slot (the cash slot door) is substantially horizontal or the front side is lowered. It is in the form inclined. The dimensions of the shutter are slightly larger than the dimensions of the banknote, for example, 100 mm in length, because a dimension that allows easy deposit of banknotes is required.
The width is about 200 mm. In order to open the shutter, for example, the shutter is slid backward.

[0010]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION A wall embedded type ATM
In the deposit or withdrawal processing section, it is desirable that the bills be held upright and their lower ends aligned. However, in the case of such a configuration, a shutter which is a door of the cash slot is provided on the upper surface of the cash slot.

In the automatic cash handling apparatus having the above-described structure, the banknote storing section stores the banknotes in the upright position. Therefore, the shutter of the cash slot is required to be substantially horizontal or inclined so that one of the shutters is lowered. There is. For example, the shutter has a structure in which it is slid to the rear side and opened. However, when the shutter is horizontal or inclined in this way, for example, in the case of rain, rainwater falls on the shutter, so that a large amount of rainwater accumulates on the shutter to prevent the rainwater from entering the inside of the device. It is necessary to discharge rainwater continuously so as to avoid rainfall.

Further, since it is preferable that the amount of water droplets dripping into the apparatus from the lower end of the shutter when the shutter is opened is smaller, the amount of rainwater droplets that can accumulate on the upper surface of the shutter when the shutter is closed in rainy weather is reduced. Less is more desirable.

An object of the present invention is to provide a banknote handling apparatus capable of reducing the amount of water accumulated on the shutter surface due to precipitation or the like on an ATM with an embedded wall in which the shutter is horizontal or inclined.

[0014]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The object of the present invention is to provide a banknote handling apparatus in which a cash slot for inserting and discharging bills is provided, and the cash slot is arranged in contact with the outside air. An opening / closing port door that can be opened and closed substantially horizontally and with an inclined upper surface, and a drainage unit that guides and drains rainwater that has rained to the outside of the apparatus on the opening / closing port door. This is achieved by providing an aqueous film on the surface in contact with the outside air.

Further, the above object is achieved by that the hydrophilic film is formed by applying a paint containing a hydrophilic agent.

Further, the above object is achieved by that the depositing / dispensing port door is formed of a synthetic resin, and the hydrophilic film is formed by applying a transparent paint containing a hydrophilic agent. You.

Further, the above object is achieved by the fact that the hydrophilic film is formed of a film having a contact angle to water of 60 degrees or less.

[0018] The above object is also achieved by contacting the lower end of the cash inlet / outlet door with a water drop dropped from the lower end of the cash inlet / outlet door and discharging the water drop to the drain means. This is achieved by providing drainage auxiliary means for guiding and flowing out.

[0019]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS As described above, in the deposit / withdrawal port in which the shutter is substantially horizontal or inclined, when the shutter is applied to an external wall installation type and is installed in an environment in contact with the outside air,
For example, in the case of rain, rainwater rains on the shutter. Therefore, it is necessary to continuously discharge the rainwater to avoid accumulation of a large amount of rainwater on the shutter. The drainage volume needs to be large enough to discharge the expected maximum rainfall. If rainwater enters the inside of the device, the inside of the device gets wet, for example, the rubber roller for transporting banknotes gets wet and the coefficient of friction changes more than when dry, making it impossible to secure banknote transport performance or iron parts It must be avoided because it may cause rust.

Further, when depositing or dispensing during rainy weather or immediately after the rain stops, rainwater that has been raining or that has already rained is accumulated on the upper surface of the depositing and dispensing door (shutter). Therefore, when the shutter is opened to deposit or withdraw money, the raindrops drip into the apparatus from the edge (lower end) of the shutter. Therefore, it is needless to say that the amount of dripping of the raindrop is desirably as small as possible.

In order to reduce the amount of raindrops, it is desirable that rainwater is easily drained from the upper surface of the shutter to the outside of the apparatus through the drainage means, and that the amount of rainwater droplets that can accumulate on the upper surface of the shutter is smaller.

Next, in the inside (lower side) of the deposit / withdrawal port, the bill is accepted at the time of deposit, and the bill is discharged at the time of withdrawal.
The configuration and operation of the cash deposit processing unit and / or cash dispensing processing unit will be described. The payment processing unit and / or the payment processing unit
A storage unit that can accept deposited banknotes and accumulate bills to be dispensed, a separation mechanism that separates banknotes deposited in the storage unit one by one and performs a depositing process, and dispenses during the dispensing process And a stack mechanism for collecting and stacking bills to be stacked.

In the cash depositing and / or withdrawing processing section, the cash to be deposited is fed into a deposit / withdrawal port, which is a bill depositing section, by the user, and is then fed out and processed one by one. You. Such a configuration is disclosed in
This is disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Publication No. 99795, and a storage section for discharging bills to a user is disposed substantially upright. In this way, when a user deposits a banknote, the banknote is received in an upright position, so that even if the banknote is inserted in a state where the banknotes are not aligned, the lower end of the banknote is utilized using gravity. Therefore, it is suitable to feed out and separate these bills one by one by a separating mechanism. Further, by holding the bills in the upright position, when the sheets are separated one by one by the separating mechanism, the force applied to the separating mechanism can be made constant by the pressing mechanism regardless of the number of inserted bills. In addition, it is possible to avoid double feed in which two sheets are overlapped at the time of separation, thereby improving reliability.

On the other hand, when dispensing bills to the user,
By stacking banknotes in a vertical position in the stacking mechanism, even if the size of the banknotes differs greatly depending on the denomination, such as banknotes in Asian countries and European countries, the lower ends of the banknotes are aligned, so users who receive banknotes It is also suitable.

When large and small banknotes are mixed, the storage area for the banknotes is larger than the size of the largest banknote. Variation within the width and height of the part. Here, if the storage unit is in the upright position, the lower ends of the banknotes are aligned by gravity, so when the banknotes are separated by the separation mechanism for deposit processing, the lower ends are separated one by one regardless of the size of the banknotes can do.

As described above, the wall-embedded type ATM in which the shutter portion is exposed to the outside has an important problem that rainwater accumulation on the shutter due to precipitation must be reduced as much as possible. Therefore, the inventors of the present invention have studied the following improvements.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the automatic cash transaction apparatus of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an external appearance of a wall-mounted automatic cash transaction apparatus to which the present invention is applied. In FIG. 1, a front face portion 10, which is a user operation surface, is provided on a main body housing 30 of the cash transaction apparatus 101 so as to be substantially upright and protrude from the main body housing 30. It is installed so as to be fitted in a hole opened in the wall surface W (shown in FIG. 3) of the building, and an ATM user can perform various cash handling operations such as depositing and withdrawing while standing in front. The amount of protrusion is the thickness of the wall surface of the building, for example, about 5 inches. The front face unit 10 communicates with the card slot 102a, processes a user's card, prints a transaction statement, and discharges it.
2, a passbook processing mechanism 103 that communicates with the passbook slot 103a, processes the user's passbook, prints out the contents of the transaction, and discharges it.
And

The deposit and withdrawal port 20 through which a user inserts and removes banknotes is provided substantially on a horizontal surface opened on the front face portion 10 or on a surface inclined so that the side of the front face 10 is lowered. Shutter. On this surface, there are further provided a display means 107 for displaying the details of the transaction and a customer operation means 108 for inputting.

The bill storage section below the bill depositing / dispensing means 1 is surrounded by a safe casing 116 made of a thick iron plate of several tens mm different from the apparatus casing 101b. Device housing 10
1b also has a rigid casing structure, but the safe casing 116 has a more rigid structure and enhances security. The automatic teller machine 101 can perform processing such as deposit, payment, and transfer of a user by using a card, a bill, a statement slip, and a passbook as a medium.

FIG. 2 is a control block diagram showing the control relationship of the present apparatus. In FIG. 2, the automatic teller machine 101
Card / statement processing means 102, passbook processing means 103, banknote deposit / withdrawal means 1, customer operation means 108,
The deposit / withdrawal port 20 and the display means 107 are connected to the main body control means 106 via a bus 109, and the main body control means 1
Necessary operations are performed under the control of 06. Main body control means 10
In addition to the above, the interface 10b, the clerk operation unit 106c, and the external storage unit 106d are also connected to the bus 10
9 for exchanging necessary data, but the detailed description is omitted because it is not directly related to the features of the present invention. In addition, 101 d shown in FIG. 2 is a power supply unit that supplies power to the above-described units and components.

FIG. 3 is a side view showing the structure of the automatic teller machine 101 according to the present invention shown in FIG. In FIG. 3, the banknote depositing / dispensing means 1 stores a deposit / withdrawal port 20 through which a user inserts / extracts a banknote, a banknote discriminating unit 30 which discriminates a banknote, and temporarily accepts a deposited banknote until a transaction is established. A temporary storage 40, one deposit box 60 for storing banknotes for which transactions have been made at the time of deposit, one deposit box 70 for storing banknotes for withdrawal, a recycle box 80 for both deposit and withdrawal, and recycling. A loading / recovery box 81 for storing bills to be refilled into the box 80 and bills collected from the recycle box;
Pass through 0, deposit and withdrawal port 20, temporary storage 40, deposit safe 6
0, Outbox 70, Recycle box 80, Loading / Recovery box 81
On the other hand, it comprises a bill transport path 50 for transporting bills, and a control unit (not shown).

The banknote depositing / dispensing means 1 is, as shown in FIG.
The deposit / withdrawal port 20, the bill discriminating unit 30, the temporary storage 40, the upper transport mechanism 1a including the bill transport path 50, the deposit safe 60, the deposit safe 70, the recycle warehouse 80, the loading / collecting warehouse 81, It comprises a lower bill mechanism 1b, which is arranged on the front of the storage and comprises a transport path 90 which can be opened and closed. Further, the lower bill mechanism 1b is mounted in a safe housing 116 formed of a thick iron plate of about 50 mm, and the transport path between the upper transport mechanism 1a and the lower bill mechanism 1b is a connecting transport path 501h. It is connected.

The connecting transport path 501h is connected to the lower bill mechanism 1b.
The transport path 501g of the upper transport mechanism 1a and the transport path 9 of the lower bill mechanism 1b that face the upper surface iron plate of the safe housing 116 surrounding the
01a is provided at the connecting position. The slit formed in the upper iron plate has a length for passing a bill and a width of a conveying roller attached so as to pinch and feed the bill conveyed to the slit. In the case where the lower bill mechanism 1b is not surrounded by the safe housing, the upper transport mechanism 1a is directly mounted on the lower bill mechanism 1b, so that the connecting transport path 501h is not necessarily required. The drive source (motor) of the transport path may be provided separately in the transport path of the upper transport mechanism and the transport path of the lower bill mechanism. However, a single drive source is used, and the driving force is supplied to the transport paths 501g-501h-90.
The transmission may be performed by a gear provided between 1a.

The bill conveying path 50 is connected to the bill discriminating section 30.
In both directions, arrows 501a-501h and 90
1a to 901d, the deposit and withdrawal port 2
0, a temporary storage 40, an incoming safe 60, an outgoing safe 70, a recycle store 80, and a loading / collecting store 81 are connected. The one-way arrow of each arrow is a one-way bill transport path that transports a banknote only in the direction of the arrow, and the two-way arrow is a two-way transport path that transports a banknote by switching between two directions for each transaction operation. It is.

In the bill transport path 50, the lower bill mechanism 1b
In, there is a safe 60, a safe 70, a recycle box 8
The five banknote transport paths 901a to 901e at the front of the loading / recovery box 81 constitute an open / close transport path 90 that can be opened and closed integrally.

The rainwater that has rained on the deposit / withdrawal port 20 is
15 and discharged to the outside of the apparatus through the vertical drain 317.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing the control relationship of the bill handling means of the automatic teller machine provided with the present invention. In FIG. 4, the control means 35 is a main body control means 10 of the apparatus.
6 via a bus 109, and the main body control means 106
It controls the banknote depositing / dispensing unit 1 in response to a command from the server and the state detection of the banknote depositing / dispensing unit 1, and sends the state of the banknote depositing / dispensing unit 1 to the main body control unit 106 as necessary.
In the banknote depositing / dispensing means 1, each unit (the depositing / dispensing port 2)
0, bill discriminating means 30, temporary storage 40, bill transport path 5
0, a safe 60, a safe 70, a recycle box 80, and a loading / collecting box 81), which are connected to drive motors, electromagnetic solenoids and sensors, and control the drive of the actuators while monitoring the state with the sensors according to the transaction. .

FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing the appearance of the automatic teller machine provided with the present invention when the back door is opened.

In FIG. 5, the rear door 101d of the apparatus 101
And the rear door 116b of the safe housing 116 can be opened and closed, and as shown, both doors 101d and 116d
When b is opened, storage boxes with handles appear.
The staff can use this handle to pull out and operate each storage box. By adopting the above configuration,
The operation of replenishing and collecting banknotes, the operation of removing jammed banknotes when an abnormality occurs, and the like are facilitated, and the operability is improved. If a rail is provided for each storage, the storage can be pulled out smoothly.

Next, an example of the structure of the deposit and withdrawal port 20 provided in the bill processing means 1 will be described with reference to FIGS.

FIGS. 6 to 18 illustrate the schematic structure of the shutter 201 as the door of the deposit and withdrawal port 20 and the effect of the hydrophilicity of the surface. FIGS. 6 and 7 show a state in which water droplets 114 adhere to the surface of a horizontally placed base material having different hydrophilicity, and FIG. 6 shows the state of a hydrophobic base material 110 having no hydrophilicity. FIG. 7 shows a state where water droplets are attached, and FIG. 7 shows a state where water droplets are attached to the surface of the hydrophilic film 111 having hydrophilicity.

Here, the base material shown in FIG. 6 is a base material formed by, for example, injection molding a plastic molding material. The surface of the base material has hydrophobicity due to the adhesion of the release material, Is assumed to be θ1, the contact angle θ1 is, for example, 70 degrees or more. Water droplets 114 are formed on the surface of the hydrophobic substrate 110 having such a contact angle.
If water adheres, the water droplets 114 try to maintain a spherical shape due to surface tension.

On the other hand, in the example shown in FIG. 7, a hydrophilic film 111 having hydrophilicity is attached to the surface of a base material 115 formed by injection molding of a plastic molding material. Assuming θ2, this contact angle θ2
Is, for example, 50 degrees or less. Therefore, the water droplets spread along the surface, and the adjacent water droplets fuse to form a water film. Thereby, the raindrops attached to the surface of the hydrophilic film 111 can quickly adapt to the hydrophilic film 111 to form a water film. The hydrophilic film 111 according to the present invention may be configured as a coating film formed by applying a paint containing a hydrophilic agent.

In this manner, a hydrophilic film can be easily formed on the outer surface of the shutter simply by applying the paint containing the hydrophilic agent to the outer surface of the shutter.

Further, preferably, the hydrophilic film 111 according to the present invention may be formed by applying a clear paint containing a hydrophilic agent on the surface of the substrate as a top coat. Thus, the hydrophilic film 111 can be formed on the outer surface of the shutter simply by including the hydrophilic agent in the transparent clear paint that forms the top coat. In particular, when the base material is molded from plastic, by molding the plastic material with a material having a predetermined hue, the top coat is a clear paint, so the hue of the base material appears as it is. It can respond freely.

Next, with reference to FIGS. 8 to 11, an example of the structure of the deposit / withdrawal port door having the hydrophilic surface-treated shutter surface plate shown in FIGS. .

FIGS. 8 and 10 show the shutter surface plate 302.
Shows the case where the surface is hydrophobic, and FIGS. 9 and 11 show the case where the surface is hydrophilic. When the surface is hydrophobic, the rainwater 112 that has rained on the surface becomes a large number of round water droplets 114 on the surface as in FIG. 6, and the size of each water droplet increases as the amount of rainfall increases. When the size of the water droplet increases and the gravity due to the inclined surface becomes larger than the system stopping force due to surface tension, the water droplet descends along the inclined surface of the shutter front plate 302 and reaches the lower end 302A of the shutter. At the shutter lower end 302A, some of the water drops fall, but part of the water drops accumulates along the edge of the shutter lower end due to surface tension,
Water droplets 113 larger than the shutter surface are formed. That is, when rainfall continues, the water droplets 114 adhere to the entire shutter front plate 302, and the larger water droplets 113 adhere to the lower end 302A of the shutter while dropping from the lower end. In such a state, an amount substantially equal to the amount of rainwater that has rained becomes the raindrop 115 and drops sequentially, so that the amount of waterdrops accumulated on the shutter front plate 302 is maintained at a substantially constant amount. Water droplets dropped from the lower end 302A of the shutter as raindrops 115 are accumulated in a drain 315, and the drain 31
5, flows in the direction of arrow 234, and is further discharged to the outside of the apparatus through the vertical drain 317.

FIGS. 9 and 11 show the shutter surface plate 302.
Indicates that the surface is hydrophilic. When the surface is hydrophilic, the rainwater 112 that has rained on the surface spreads on the surface, so that adjacent water droplets are connected to each other to form a thin water film 114a.
The thinly spread water film 114a descends along the inclined surface of the shutter surface plate 302, and the water droplet 11a falls on the shutter lower end 302A.
3, and reaches the shutter lower end 302A. The water film that has reached the shutter lower end 302A is in a state of being accumulated at the lower end 302A due to the surface tension of water. Shutter lower end 30
If the amount of water drops that can be held by the surface tension at 2A exceeds the amount of water drops, the water drops corresponding thereto become rain drops 115 and drop from the shutter lower end 302A. Even if the shutter surface plate 302 is hydrophilic, if the amount of water droplets held by the surface tension has reached the limit, the amount of water substantially equal to the amount of the rainwater 112 that has rained drops sequentially, so that the water is accumulated on the shutter surface plate 302. The amount of water droplet to be kept will be almost constant. Water drops dropped from the lower end 302A of the shutter as raindrops 115 are accumulated in the drainage channel 315, flow in the direction of the arrow 234 along the slope of the drainage channel 315, and are discharged outside the apparatus through the vertical drainage channel 317.

Here, comparing the amount of water accumulated on the shutter surface plate 302 between the case where the surface is hydrophobic and the case where the surface is hydrophobic, a large number of water droplets are widely distributed over the entire surface due to the surface tension when the surface is hydrophobic. On the other hand, in the case of hydrophilicity, only a water film is accumulated at the lower end 302A of the shutter, so that the amount of water accumulated on the shutter surface is smaller in the case of hydrophilicity.

Next, the relationship between hydrophilicity and water content will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 12 shows 100 mm × 2
Surface treatment with different contact angles is performed on a flat plate of 00 mm, and the short side is arranged so that θ = about 18 ° is inclined to spray water droplets on the surface, and the contact angle of the flat plate surface and the amount of water droplets remaining on the flat plate FIG. The vertical axis in FIG. 12 represents the ratio with the amount of residual water droplets as 100 when the contact angle is about 60 °. The plots with white circles in the figure are the actually measured values, and the solid line indicates the tendency. Thus, it can be seen that the smaller the contact angle, the smaller the amount of water droplets remaining on the flat plate surface. By making the shutter surface hydrophilic, the amount of water droplets that accumulate on the shutter surface during rainy weather can be reduced. As is clear from FIG. 12, the contact angle is desirably 60 ° or less, and more preferably, the contact angle is about 40 °. The plot of the black circle and the broken line will be described later.

Next, the structure of the drainage auxiliary member will be described. As described with reference to FIGS. 10 and 11, water droplets attached to the shutter surface during rainy weather collectively collect on the lower end 302A of the shutter due to surface tension. In particular, when the surface is hydrophilic, the shutter surface becomes a thin water film, so that most of the moisture on the shutter surface is removed from the shutter lower end 3.
Focus on 02A.

Therefore, as shown in FIGS. 13 and 14, when the drainage auxiliary member 340 is brought into contact with the tip of the shutter lower end 302A, the water droplets 114 accumulated at the shutter lower end 302A flow out in the direction of arrow E along the drainage auxiliary member 340. Drops of water can be discharged. This drainage auxiliary member 340
For example, a cloth or a nonwoven fabric made of a fiber which is easily wetted by water is more preferable.

Alternatively, the present invention is not limited to cloth or nonwoven fabric. For example, a part of the drainage channel 315 may be formed in a projecting shape, and the part may be configured to abut on the shutter lower end 302A.

FIG. 13 shows a case where the surface of the shutter 302 is hydrophobic. By contacting the drainage assisting member 340, water droplets accumulated at the lower end 302A of the shutter can be drained.
The water droplets 114 on these surfaces cannot be drained because water is adhered, and as a result, most of the water droplets remain on the shutter surface, and the effect of the drainage assisting means 340 is small.

On the other hand, when the surface is hydrophilic as shown in FIG. 14, most of the thin film 114a of water is concentrated on the lower end 302A of the shutter. Water can be drained, and the effect of the drainage assisting means 340 is great.

Although the drainage assisting means 340 contacts the lower end 302A of the shutter, there may be a gap of about 1 mm or less.
If the water droplets accumulated in A protrude from the shutter lower end 302A by the surface tension and come into contact with the surface of the drainage assisting means 340, the water can be drained along the drainage assisting means 340.

The plots and broken lines of the black circles shown in FIG. 12 indicate the contact angle when the drainage auxiliary member 340 contacts the shutter lower end 302A and the surface of the shutter 302 as described with reference to FIGS. It shows the amount of remaining water droplets. By comparing the solid line and the broken line, the provision of the drainage auxiliary member 340 allows the shutter lower end 3
It can be seen that since water droplets accumulated in 02A can be drained, the amount of water droplets remaining on the shutter front plate 302 is reduced. In particular, when the contact angle is as small as 40 ° or less, it can be seen that most of the water droplets are drained by the drainage assisting means 340.

As described above, the shutter front plate 302 is provided with the hydrophilic film and the drainage auxiliary means 340 is provided.
Abuts on the shutter lower end 302A, the amount of water droplets accumulated on the shutter surface can be reduced. Therefore, even when the shutter is opened for deposit or withdrawal in rainy weather or immediately after rain has risen. In addition, the amount of water dropped from the shutter to the inside of the apparatus can be reduced.

Next, with reference to FIGS. 15 to 18, an example of the structure of the cash-in / pay-out port door provided with the drainage assisting means 340 while performing the hydrophilic treatment on the surface of the shutter 302 described above will be described in detail.

FIG. 15 is a perspective view showing a state where the shutter 201 (payment door) is closed. FIG. 16 shows the shutter 2
It is the perspective view which showed the state which 01 opened. 15 and 16
In FIG. 16, the shutter 201 slides in the direction of the arrow 217a to open and close, moves to the state shown in FIG. 16A and opens, and allows the user to take out the bill at the time of dispensing from the bill insertion slot and insert the bill at the time of deposit. To do.

FIG. 17 is a sectional view taken along the line BB of FIG. FIG. 18 is a sectional view taken along the line CC in FIG.
17 and 18, a slide member 310 is movably supported between slide rails 311a and 311b in the directions of arrows 217a and 217b. A shutter surface plate 302 of a shutter 201 has a hydrophilic film 1 on its surface.
11 and is mounted on the slide member 310. The drainage assisting means 340 is in contact with the shutter lower end 302A, and can drain rainwater from the shutter lower end 302A along the arrow 333 to the drainage channel 315.

When the slide member 310 moves in the directions of the arrows 217a to 332, the shutter 201 is moved.
Is opened, the deposit / withdrawal port 202 is opened, and the user can deposit or withdraw money. Reference numeral 320 denotes a shutter cover, which is housed inside the shutter cover 320 when the shutter 201 is opened, and assumes a state shown in FIG.

Next, an example of a mechanism for opening and closing the shutter will be described with reference to FIGS.

The shutter 201 is supported by the slide member 310, and the shutter front plate 302 is attached to the slide member 310 by the support member 325 shown in FIG. The slide member 310 is slidably fitted in a groove provided in a guide rail 239 made of, for example, a synthetic resin as shown in FIG. 18, and is movably supported in the direction of an arrow 217a. The other end of the slide member 310 is supported by a guide 238 made of synthetic resin. Slide member 3
Since both ends are supported by a synthetic resin having a low friction coefficient, 10 can be smoothly moved in the direction of arrow 217a.

As shown in FIG. 17, a rack 240 is provided at one end of the slide member 310, and the slide member 310 is moved by the rack 240 when the gear 241 rotates. A guide roller 242 is pressed against the slide member 310 on the side facing the gear 241.
The gear 241 and the rack 240 are not disengaged from each other. As shown in FIG.
Are supported by a guide roller shaft 243 and a guide roller support plate 244. The gear 241 is connected to a reduction gear 246 via a shaft 245, and the reduction gear 246 meshes with a pinion gear 248 connected to a motor 247 shown in FIG. When the motor 247 rotates, the speed is reduced via the reduction gear 246, the gear 241 rotates, the rack 240 operates, and the shutter 201 moves in the direction of the arrow 217. To open the shutter from the shutter closed state in FIG. 15, the motor 247 may be rotated counterclockwise. To close the shutter 201 from the shutter open state shown in FIG. 16, the motor 247 may be rotated clockwise. Good.

Next, FIGS. 15 to 18 show a configuration for draining rainwater that has fallen on the shutter during rainy weather to the outside of the apparatus.
This will be described with reference to FIG. 15 and 16, a rainwater cover described later is omitted.

The drainage channel 315 has a structure capable of receiving and flowing rainwater. Since the drainage channel 315 is inclined so that the portion (b) is lower than the portion (a) in FIGS. Flows in the direction of arrow 234 from the part A in the direction of the part B.

The drainage assisting means 340 includes the shutter surface plate 30
2 is arranged so as to be in contact with the end face (lower end) 302 </ b> A on the near side, and is configured so that water droplets flowing along the drainage assisting means 340 drop into the lower drainage channel 315.

The vertical drain 317 is a pipe for draining rainwater flowing to the lower drain 315 in the direction of arrow 318. The vertical drain 317 drains rainwater to the outside of the device. The side drainage channels 316a and 316b are arranged along both side surfaces of the shutter 302, and the lower end of the side drainage channel is connected to the lower drainage channel 315, and the side drainage channel 316a is provided.
Or 316 b flows into the lower drain 315. It is convenient to form the side drainage channel in a V-shape with a sharp bottom because the flow rate is increased even when the amount of flowing water is small, so that sediment contained in rainwater can be prevented from settling. The sealing material 321 is provided between the shutter cover 320 and the rainwater cover 312 and the lower drainage channel 31.
5 and a rainwater cover 313, and between the side drainage channel 316 and the rainwater cover 314, for example, a flexible rubber member arranged to be pressed against each other to prevent rainwater and outside air from entering the inside of the apparatus. To prevent.

As shown in FIG. 17, the lower end of the tip 312t of the rainwater cover 312 arranged on the upstream side of the shutter 201 is connected to the upstream end of the shutter surface plate 302 or a projection 302a arranged near the end. Nested downstream of and below the upper end of the shutter 201 to prevent rainwater flowing in the direction of arrow 330 or rainwater falling on the surface of the shutter 201 from entering.

As shown in FIG. 18, the lower ends 314at and 314bt of the rainwater cover 314 disposed on the side surface of the shutter 201 are formed at the end portions of the side surface of the shutter surface plate 302 or the projections 302b and 302c disposed near the end portion.
Nested inside and lower than the upper end of the shutter to prevent the inflow of rainwater flowing in the direction of arrows 334 to 335 or rainwater raining on the shutter surface.

As shown in FIG. 17, the shutter surface plate 3
A gap is provided between the rainwater cover 313 and the shutter surface on the downstream side of the shutter 02 so that rainwater that has rained on the shutter surface plate 302 or rainwater that has rained around the shutter and flows over the shutter in the direction of arrow 332 can pass through. Configuration.

Further, it is desirable to reduce the amount of moisture accumulated on the upper surface of the shutter, because it is desired to prevent the moisture accumulated on the shutter surface plate 302 from dropping into the inside of the apparatus when opening the shutter 201 of the deposit and withdrawal port. Therefore, the hydrophilic film 111 is added to the shutter surface plate 302 as shown in FIG.
17, the water droplets on the shutter surface are caused to flow out along the drainage assisting means 340 into the drainage channel 315 along the arrow 333 as shown in FIG. 17, and as a result, the amount of water accumulated on the surface of the shutter surface plate 302 This is a configuration capable of reducing the number.

Next, the operation of the automatic cash handling apparatus provided with a cash slot having the above-described shutter structure will be described with reference to FIG.
9 and FIG.

As shown in FIGS. 19 and 20, when the user deposits a bill during a deposit transaction, the slide member 3
10, the shutter 201 is moved in the direction of arrow 217a to open it, the deposit / withdrawal port 20 is opened, and the bill 210 is inserted in the direction of arrow 222 between the front plate 204, the push plate 203, and the rear plate 205. I do.

Next, as shown in FIG. 21, when the deposited bill is fed, the shutter 201 is closed by moving the shutter 201 in the direction of arrow 217b.
, Ie, in the direction of arrow 403,
a, the state of the front plate 204a and the feed roller 206
The gate roller 207 which is fed by the rotation operation of (2) and does not rotate in the feeding direction prevents two sheets from being fed. In this way, the bill 210 of the deposit / withdrawal port 20 is paid out in the direction of the arrow 208, merges with the bill transport path 50, and is taken into the apparatus.

Further, bills dispensed from the inside of the apparatus and bills rejected because they cannot be distinguished at the time of deposit are conveyed from the inside of the apparatus in the direction of arrow 501j and rotated, as shown in FIG. It is fed between the stack roller 211 and the backup roller 213. The brush roller 212 is on the same axis as the backup roller 213, and the elastic members 212a are radially arranged as shown in the figure.
And rotate independently. The bill fed between the stack roller 211 and the backup roller 213 comes into contact with the elastic member 212a of the stopped brush roller 212, and the elastic guide 212 elastically deforms the stack guide 2.
14, the sheet passes through while receiving the frictional resistance force, temporarily stops at the banknote position indicated by a broken line 215 in the drawing where the nipping conveyance force between the stack roller 211 and the backup roller 213 is lost, and immediately thereafter, the brush roller 212 is rotated. And
It is accumulated in the space between the push plate 203a and the rear plate 205a. As the number of stacked banknotes 210 increases, the pressing plate becomes 203b.
, Whereby the bills 210 can be moved in the storage space without jumping upward without brush rollers 212.
By simply scraping in the horizontal direction, bills conveyed continuously do not interfere with each other,
It is organized and organized. The accumulated bills 210 are placed on the rear plate 20.
The shutter is moved to the position shown in FIG.
And the preparation for removal is completed. Therefore,
The user can take out the bill 210.

Next, the procedure of processing the bill 210 in the bill processing means 1 will be described with reference to FIGS. 3 and 4 again. Although not shown in detail, the bill discrimination unit 30
A two-sheet detecting unit that detects displacement of the rollers when a bill is conveyed between a pair of rollers and detects whether two sheets are overlapped;
It comprises a discriminating unit that detects printing or the like of a bill by an image sensor or the like and discriminates the denomination and authenticity of the bill, and reports the discrimination result of each passing bill to the control unit 35.

The temporary storage 40 stores the banknotes which have been deposited through the deposit / withdrawal port 20 and whose denomination has been determined by the banknote discriminating unit 30 in the course of a deposit transaction, temporarily suspends the transaction until the transaction is completed, It has the function of releasing sequentially.

In this embodiment, at the time of withdrawal transaction, the bill discriminating section 3
It has a function of storing rejected banknotes of which the denomination is not determined at 0, temporarily suspending the banknotes until the dispensing operation is completed, and discharging the rejected banknotes during the dispensing reject storing operation after the operation is completed.

Referring again to FIG. 3, one inbox 60 is mounted in this embodiment. Bills stored in the deposit box 60 are conveyed from a bill conveying path (arrow 901a) by a switching gate (not shown) in the direction of arrow 902a, and bills continuously conveyed into the deposit box 60 do not interfere with each other. Collect. In this embodiment, one cash box 70 is mounted, and banknotes for dispensing are arranged and set by a person in charge, and are conveyed one by one in the direction of arrow 902e, in the direction of arrow 901d in the banknote conveyance path. Transported to

In the present embodiment, one recycle box 80 is mounted, and the recycle box 6 stores the above-mentioned bills continuously.
This storage box has the function of an output safe 70 for continuously separating and feeding out 0 and bills, and is capable of storing and separating and feeding.

The loading / collecting box 81 has the same configuration as the recycling box 80, and is not used for deposit / withdrawal transactions as described later, but may be operated as a recycling box.

Next, the operation of the bill receiving / dispensing means of this embodiment will be described. At the time of the deposit transaction, a deposit counting operation that counts the bills deposited by the user, and a deposit that stores in a separate storage for each denomination after the user approves the counted amount and enters “confirmation”. The storage operation is distinguished. If the user selects “Cancel” to stop the deposit transaction,
Perform cancellation return operation.

At the time of the deposit counting operation, the bills inserted into the deposit / withdrawal port 20 are separated one by one, and arrows 501a, 501
After passing through b, the banknote discriminating unit 30 determines the denomination and authenticity of the banknote. The discriminated banknote is switched by a switching gate (not shown), conveyed in a direction from arrow 501c to 501d, and temporarily stored in temporary storage 40. The banknotes that could not be determined by the banknote determination unit 30 or the deposit reject banknotes in which the inclination or the interval between the banknotes became abnormal were not taken into the temporary storage 40, and the switching gate (not shown) was switched to pass the arrow 501f. Then, it is stored in the deposit / withdrawal port 20 and returned to the user.

At the time of the deposit storage operation, the rotating drum 401 of the temporary storage 40 is rotated in the opposite direction to that at the time of storage, and the wound banknotes are moved in the reverse direction of the storage at the arrow 501d in the reverse direction.
, And conveyed to 501c and 501b, passed through the bill discriminating unit 30, switched a switching gate (not shown), passed through 501g, 501h, 901a, and entered
0, and a switching gate (not shown) of any one of the recycle boxes 80 is switched and stored in a designated storage box. At this time,
The banknote discriminating unit 30 may again determine the denomination, authenticity, etc., and designate a storage. However, the banknote determination unit 30 has means for storing the determination results of all the banknotes stored in the temporary storage 40 at the time of deposit counting. The storage may be specified based on the stored contents. In the latter case, the processing time required for specifying the storage can be shortened, and the portions indicated by arrows 501g, 501h, and 901a in the bill conveyance path can be shortened.

When the user selects "cancel" and performs the cancel return operation, the rotating drum 401 of the temporary storage 40 is rotated in the opposite direction to the storage, and a switching gate (not shown) is switched to take up the drum. The bills that have been conveyed are conveyed by arrows 501e and 501f in the reverse order of storage, stored in the deposit / withdrawal port 20, and returned to the user.

At the time of a withdrawal transaction, a predetermined number of coins are withdrawn from the safes for each denomination in the withdrawal safe 70 and the recycle box 80, and arrows 901d, 901c, 901b, 901a, 501
h, 501g, the bill type discrimination unit 30 discriminates the denomination, and via the arrows 501c, 501f, the cash slot 20.
And paid to the user. When a withdrawal rejection that cannot be discriminated by the bill discriminating unit 30 occurs, the bill is switched to a switching gate (not shown) and the temporary storage 4
In the same way as at the time of payment counting, the content is temporarily stored at 0 via arrows 501c and 501d. Insufficient banknotes are added and fed from the outbox 70 or the recycle box 80.

When a reject occurs during the dispensing transaction and the reject is stored in the temporary storage 40, the dispensing reject storing operation is performed. In this embodiment, all of the withdrawal reject bills are stored in the safe 60 from the temporary storage 40. Alternatively, when passing through the bill discriminating unit 30, the denomination and authenticity are discriminated again, and the discriminable bills of the denominations that can be stored in the recycle box 80 are stored in the recycle box 80. The number of rejected bills can be reduced, and the funding efficiency can be improved.

By providing the pay-in / pay-out port and the shutter having the above configuration, it is possible to prevent rainwater that has rained on or around the shutter from flowing into the inside of the apparatus, and to discharge the rainwater outside the apparatus. This has the effect.

Further, a hydrophilic film is provided on the shutter surface,
Further, by providing the drainage assisting means, the amount of water accumulated on the shutter surface can be reduced. Therefore, even when the shutter is opened for deposit or withdrawal in rainy weather or immediately after the rain has risen, the device can be opened from the shutter. This has the effect of reducing the amount of water dropped inside.

[0092]

According to the present invention, the shutter of the cash slot can operate stably even in a rainy environment, and the amount of water accumulated on the shutter surface can be reduced. Equipment can be provided.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an external appearance of an embodiment of an automatic cash transaction apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a control relationship of the automatic teller machine according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a sectional view showing a configuration of an embodiment of an automatic cash transaction apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a control relationship of bill handling means of the automatic teller machine of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing an appearance of the automatic teller machine of one embodiment of the present invention when a back door is opened.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a state of water droplets when the cash slot door surface of the automatic teller machine of the present invention is hydrophobic.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a state of water droplets when the cash slot door surface of the automatic teller machine of the present invention is hydrophilic.

FIG. 8 is a perspective view showing a state of water droplets when the cash slot door surface of the automatic teller machine of the present invention is hydrophobic.

FIG. 9 is a perspective view showing a state of water droplets when the cash slot door surface of the automatic teller machine of the present invention is hydrophilic.

FIG. 10 is a side view showing a state of water droplets when the cash slot door surface of the automatic teller machine of the present invention is hydrophobic.

FIG. 11 is a side view showing a state of water droplets when the cash slot door surface of the automatic teller machine of the present invention is hydrophilic.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing the relationship between the contact angle of the surface of the cash slot door and the amount of residual water droplets in the automatic teller machine of the present invention.

FIG. 13 is a side view showing a state of water droplets when the cash slot door surface of the automatic teller machine of the present invention is hydrophobic and provided with a drainage assisting means.

FIG. 14 is a side view showing a state of water droplets when the cash slot door surface of the automatic teller machine of the present invention is hydrophilic and provided with a drainage assisting means.

FIG. 15 is a perspective view showing the structure of a cash slot of the automatic teller machine of the present invention.

FIG. 16 is a perspective view showing another configuration of the cash slot of the automatic teller machine of the present invention.

FIG. 17 is a sectional view showing the structure of a cash slot of the automatic teller machine of the present invention.

FIG. 18 is a cross-sectional view in another direction showing a structure of a cash slot of the automatic teller machine of the present invention.

FIG. 19 is a side view (during standby) of the cash slot according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 20 is a side view (at the time of deposit) of a deposit and withdrawal port according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 21 is a side view of the cash slot according to the embodiment of the present invention (during a pay-out operation).

FIG. 22 is a side view (at the time of withdrawal) of the cash slot according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 23 is a side view of the cash slot according to the embodiment of the present invention (withdrawal, when the shutter is open).

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Banknote receiving / dispensing means, 10 ... Front face part, 20
... Deposit and withdrawal port, 30 ... Bill determination unit, 40 ... Temporary storage, 5
0: Banknote transport path, 60: Safe box, 70: Safe box, 80:
Recycle box, 101: Automatic teller machine, 102: Card / statement processing mechanism, 107: Display means, 108: Customer operation means, 201: Shutter, 302: Shutter surface plate, 310: Slide member, 312-314: Rainwater Cover, 315: Lower drainage channel, 316 ... Side drainage channel, 317
... vertical drainage channel, 321 ... sealing material, 340 ... drainage auxiliary means.

   ────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of front page    (72) Inventor Masanori Terao             120 Co., Ltd., 120 Sachimachi, Inazawa, Aichi Prefecture             Inside Chubu Hitachi Electric F-term (reference) 3E040 AA01 BA07 FA04 FA05

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A deposit and withdrawal port for inserting and discharging bills,
In the banknote handling apparatus in which the deposit and withdrawal port is disposed in contact with the outside air, the deposit and withdrawal port is substantially horizontal and can be opened and closed with a tilted upper surface. Drainage means for guiding the rainwater that has rained to the outside of the device and draining it,
A bill handling device, wherein an aqueous film is applied to a surface of the deposit / withdrawal door that comes into contact with outside air. 2. The banknote handling apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the hydrophilic film is formed by applying a paint containing a hydrophilic agent. 3. The depositing and dispensing door is made of a synthetic resin, and the hydrophilic film is formed by applying a transparent paint containing a hydrophilic agent. A bill handling device according to claim 1. 4. The hydrophilic film has a contact angle with water of 60.
The bill handling apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the bill handling apparatus is formed of a film having a degree of temperature or less. 5. A dispenser which is disposed in contact with the inclined lower end of the cash inlet / outlet door, comes into contact with a water drop dropped from the lower end of the cash inlet / outlet door, and guides the water drop to a drainage means to flow out. The bill handling device according to claim 1, further comprising a drainage assisting unit.