JP2005208944A - Coin handling device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a means for improving the job efficiency of money reception transaction using coins by reducing a period of time for transaction in the case of the money reception transaction using coins. <P>SOLUTION: This coin handling device is provided with a discrimination part for discriminating the denomination of thrown-in coins and counting the number of the coins, a temporary reservation part for batch storing the coins discriminated by the discrimination part, a denomination stacker for storing the coins in the temporary reservation part by each denomination, and an overflow stacker for storing a part of coins in the denomination stacker when the denomination stacker becomes full. In the case of cash transferring transaction, coins thrown-in and sent into the temporary reservation part are stored directly in the overflow stacker. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a coin handling device provided in an automatic teller machine or the like.

A conventional automatic coin transaction device uses a feeding unit to feed out coins inserted into a coin deposit / withdrawal port, discriminates the denomination of the coins in a discrimination unit, and transports the identified coins to a temporary holding unit by a deposit transport unit. store. After the customer confirms the total amount of coins stored in the temporary holding unit, the coin is discharged to the withdrawal transport unit and transported to the coin deposit / withdrawal port. It is stored in a stacker (see, for example, Patent Document 1).
JP 2002-216207 A (2nd page, right column, line 23-2nd page, right column, line 29, FIG. 1)

  However, in the above-described conventional technology, in the transaction of depositing coins, the coins in the temporary holding unit are discriminated again and stored in the money type stacker, which involves a withdrawal operation such as a change of the coins inserted by the customer. In the case, it is necessary to perform the coin withdrawal operation for change after storing the coin of the temporary holding part in the money type stacker, and it takes time until the change is withdrawn to the customer, and the transaction time becomes longer There's a problem.

  The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and aims to provide means for reducing the transaction time in the case of a deposit transaction using coins and improving the business efficiency of a deposit transaction using coins. To do.

  In order to solve the above problems, the present invention, a discrimination unit for counting the type and number of coins entered, a temporary holding unit for temporarily storing coins identified in the discrimination unit, Cash transfer transaction in a coin handling device comprising a denomination stacker for storing the coins of the temporary holding unit in denominations and an overflow stacker for storing a part of the coins when the denomination stacker is full In this case, the coins inserted and sent to the temporary storage unit are directly stored in the overflow stacker.

  Thereby, this invention can skip the time which accommodates a coin in a money classification stacker, can advance the cash transfer transaction as a deposit transaction rapidly, and can improve the business efficiency of the deposit transaction using a coin. An effect is obtained.

  Below, with reference to drawings, the example of the coin handling device by the present invention is described.

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing a coin depositing / withdrawing unit according to the first embodiment, FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an automatic teller machine according to the first embodiment, and FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a control system of the coin depositing / withdrawing unit according to the first embodiment. It is.
In FIG. 2, 1 is an automatic teller machine.
Reference numeral 2 denotes a display input unit having a display screen for displaying input means such as a touch panel, a word for guiding a transaction operation, a coin deposit / withdrawal processing result, and the like.

A card handling unit 3 has an insertion slot for receiving a customer's card, and has a function of reading the contents recorded on the magnetic stripe of the customer's card and printing a transaction statement.
4 is a bankbook handling department. It has a function of reading the contents recorded in the magnetic stripe of the customer's bankbook and recording transaction data such as transaction contents in the customer's bankbook.

Reference numeral 5 denotes a banknote deposit / withdrawal unit that accepts banknotes inserted by customers, discriminates, counts and accumulates them, and discharges banknotes to be paid out to customers.
Reference numeral 6 denotes a coin deposit / withdrawal unit as a coin handling device, which accepts coins input by customers, discriminates, counts and stores them, and discharges coins to be paid out to customers.
7 is a main control part of the automatic teller machine 1, and controls each part of the automatic teller machine 1.

A transaction apparatus storage unit 8 stores programs used by the main control unit 7 and information used for control.
1 and 3, reference numeral 10 denotes a coin deposit / withdrawal port, which has a shutter that is opened when a coin is received or dispensed.
Reference numeral 11 denotes a feeding unit, which is disposed below the coin deposit / withdrawal port 10 and has a function of separating and feeding out coins.

A discrimination unit 12 discriminates the denominations of coins fed from the feeding unit 11 and counts the number of coins for each denomination.
Reference numeral 13 denotes a deposit conveyance unit which conveys the coins of the discrimination unit 12 to the temporary holding unit 14 or the denomination stacker 15.
The temporary storage unit 14 temporarily stores the conveyed coins collectively.

The denomination stacker 15 stores coins in denominations.
Reference numeral 16 denotes a withdrawal transport unit that transports the coins fed from the denomination stacker 15 to the coin deposit / withdrawal port 10.
Reference numeral 17 denotes an overflow stacker. When the denomination stacker 15 is full, a part of the coins is transported from the dispensing transport unit 16 and stored.

Reference numeral 18 denotes a guide portion, which is provided below the temporary storage portion 14 and is formed so as to guide the coins released from the temporary storage portion 14 to the overflow stacker 17.
Reference numeral 19 denotes a coin control unit which controls each part of the coin deposit / withdrawal unit 6.
Reference numeral 20 denotes a coin storage unit that stores a program executed by the coin control unit 19 and information used for control.

The operation of the above configuration will be described.
When the customer selects a cash transfer transaction or deposit transaction as a deposit transaction from the transaction selection screen on the display screen of the display input unit 2, the main control unit 7 displays a guidance screen corresponding to the transaction selected by the customer on the display input unit 2. To do.
When the customer finishes a predetermined procedure such as insertion of the customer's card into the card handling unit 3 according to it, the main control unit 7 transmits a coin acceptance command to the coin control unit 19.

Upon receiving the coin acceptance command, the coin control unit 19 opens the shutter of the coin deposit / withdrawal port 10, the coin is inserted by the customer, and when a predetermined time has elapsed, the shutter of the coin deposit / withdrawal port 10 is closed and the coin feeding unit 11. The coins are dropped to the discriminating unit 12 and fed to the discriminating unit 12 to discriminate the coin denominations and to count the number of each denomination.
The coin control unit 19 discriminates the denomination by the discriminating unit 12 and stores the coins counted by the depositing and transporting unit 13 to the temporary holding unit 14 and stores the number of coins for each denomination counted by the discriminating unit 12. To the main control unit 7.

The main control unit 7 that has received the discrimination result displays the number of coins and the total amount of coins for each denomination of the discrimination result and a word prompting confirmation thereof on the display input unit 2.
When the total amount of coins inserted by the customer is confirmed and the confirmation input operation is performed by the display input unit 2, the main control unit 7 detects this and when the change of the transaction selected by the customer is required, the money is required. A storage command with the number of types attached is transmitted to the coin control unit 19.

Below, the operation | movement of the coin storage process of a present Example is demonstrated according to the step shown by S using the flowchart shown in FIG.
S1, Coin control part 19 which received storage directions shifts to Step S2.
S2, the coin control unit 19 branches to step S3 if the customer has selected the cash transfer transaction, and proceeds to step S6 if the deposit transaction has been selected.

S3, the coin control unit 19 that recognizes the transaction with the customer as a cash transfer transaction releases the coins stored in the temporary storage unit 14 onto the guide unit 18 and directly stores them in the overflow stacker 17 by the guide unit 18.
S4, the coin control unit 19 branches to step S5 when change payment is required from the contents of the storage command received at step S1, and proceeds to step S7 when change change is not required.

S5, the coin control unit 19 delivers the coins to be paid out as change from the denomination stacker 15 to the dispensing transport unit 16, transports it to the coin deposit / withdrawal port 10, opens the shutter of the coin deposit / withdrawal port 10, and the customer deposits / withdraws the coin. After a coin is taken out from the slot 10, when a predetermined time has elapsed, the shutter of the coin deposit / withdrawal slot 10 is closed and the process proceeds to step S7.
S6, the coin control unit 19 that recognizes the transaction with the customer as a deposit transaction discharges the coin stored in the temporary holding unit 14 to the withdrawal transport unit 16 and transports it to the coin deposit / withdrawal port 10 by the withdrawal transport unit 16. To do. Then, the coins conveyed to the coin deposit / withdrawal port 10 are dropped again into the dispensing unit 11 and fed to the depositing / conveying unit 13, conveyed to the denomination stacker 15 via the discrimination unit 12, and stored in denominations.

S7, the coin control unit 19 transmits to the main control unit 7 as an end notification that the coin storage process has ended.
The main control unit 7 that has received the end notification displays a screen for notifying the end of the transaction on the display input unit 2 and discharges the transaction statement together with the card inserted by the customer. And after a customer receives these, a transaction selection screen is displayed on the display input part 2, and it waits.

  As described above, in this embodiment, since the coin is directly stored in the overflow stacker when performing the cash transfer transaction as the deposit transaction, the time for storing the coin in the denomination stacker is omitted and the cash transfer transaction is performed. Since it is possible to shorten the waiting time of the customer until the change is paid out, it is possible to improve the efficiency of the deposit transaction using coins.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the coin storage process of the second embodiment.
In addition, the same part as the said Example 1 attaches | subjects the same code | symbol, and abbreviate | omits the description.
The operation of the above configuration will be described.
When the customer selects a cash transfer transaction or a deposit transaction from the transaction selection screen and performs a procedure such as card insertion according to the guidance screen displayed on the display input unit 2 as in the first embodiment, the main control unit 7 A coin acceptance command is transmitted to the control unit 19.

  Upon receipt of the coin acceptance command, the coin control unit 19 opens the shutter of the coin deposit / withdrawal port 10 and a coin is inserted by the customer. When a predetermined time elapses, the coin control unit 19 closes the shutter of the coin deposit / withdrawal port 10 and The denomination is discriminated by the discrimination unit 12, the number of each denomination is counted, temporarily stored in the temporary storage unit 14, and the number of coins for each denomination identified by the coin discrimination unit 12 is used as the discrimination result as the main control unit. 7 to send.

The main control unit 7 that has received the discrimination result displays the number of coins and the total amount of coins for each denomination of the discrimination result and a word prompting confirmation thereof on the display input unit 2.
In the present embodiment, when the total amount of coins inserted by the customer is confirmed and the confirmation input operation is performed by the display input unit 2, the main control unit 7 detects this and the change for the transaction selected by the customer is required. Transmits a storage command with the number of denominations to the coin control unit 18.

Below, the operation | movement of the coin storage process of a present Example is demonstrated according to the step shown by SA using the flowchart shown in FIG.
In this embodiment, it is assumed that a deposit transaction is selected.
SA1, the coin control unit 19 that has received the storage command proceeds to step SA2.
SA2 and the coin control unit 19 branch to step SA3 when change change is required, and shift to step SA6 when change change is not required.

  SA3, the coin control unit 19 which has recognized that it is necessary to pay out change, stores the inserted coin in the money type stacker 15 or the overflow stacker 17, and in order to determine which one to store, A reference number (for example, 15) is determined in advance, and with reference to this, if the number of coins stored in the temporary storage unit 14 is equal to or less than the reference number, it is determined that the coin is stored in the overflow stacker 17. The process branches to step SA4, and if the number of coins stored in the temporary storage unit 14 exceeds the reference number, it is determined that the coins are stored in the temporary storage unit 14, and the process proceeds to step SA6.

SA4, the coin control unit 19 that recognizes that the number of coins stored in the temporary storage unit 14 is equal to or less than the reference number releases the coins onto the guide unit 18 and directly stores it in the overflow stacker 17 by the guide unit 18. .
SA5, the coin control unit 19 carries the change to the coin deposit / withdrawal port 10 and opens the shutter in the same manner as in Step S5 of the first embodiment, and after the customer has taken out the coin from the coin deposit / withdrawal port 10, the predetermined time has passed. When the time has elapsed, the shutter is closed and the process proceeds to step SA7.

  SA6, the coin control unit 19 that recognizes that there is no need for change change or that the number of coins stored in the temporary storage unit 14 exceeds the reference number, issues the coins stored in the temporary storage unit 14 It discharges | releases to the gold | metal conveyance part 16, and it conveys to the coin deposit or withdrawal port 10 by the payment | withdrawal conveyance part 16. FIG. Then, the coins conveyed to the coin deposit / withdrawal port 10 are dropped again on the dispensing unit 11 and delivered to the depositing / conveying unit 13, conveyed to the denomination stacker 15 via the discrimination unit 12, and stored in denominations to step SA 7. Transition.

SA7, the coin control unit 19 transmits to the main control unit 7 as an end notification that the coin storage process has ended.
The main control unit 7 that has received the end notification displays a screen for notifying the end of the transaction on the display input unit 2 and discharges the transaction statement together with the card inserted by the customer. And after a customer receives these, a transaction selection screen is displayed on the display input part 2, and it waits.

In the above description, a deposit transaction as a deposit transaction has been described as an example, but the same applies to a cash transfer transaction.
As described above, since the coins inserted when the number of inserted coins is equal to or less than the reference number are directly stored in the overflow stacker, the time required for the deposit transaction can be shortened.
In addition, although it demonstrated as a reference value being set with the number of coins in a present Example, the reference value is set with the total amount of coins or the number of coins of denominations used at a high frequency included in inserted coins as a reference value. Also good.

In addition, a reference number of customers waiting for customers who are lined up to use an automatic teller machine is set, and a customer number detection unit is provided in the automatic teller machine, and the number of customers detected and the reference number The coin storage location may be determined by comparing the two.
In addition, when the coins in the denomination stacker of each of the above embodiments are reduced and the coins used as change are insufficient, the coins in the overflow stacker may be paid out and distinguished again and stored in the denomination stacker.

  In each of the above embodiments, the coin handling device provided in the automatic teller machine has been described as an example, but the same effect can be obtained by applying it to an automatic dealing device that handles coins such as a ticket vending machine.

Explanatory drawing which shows the coin deposit and withdrawal part of Example 1. The block diagram which shows the automatic teller machine of Example 1 The block diagram which shows the control system of the coin deposit or withdrawal part of Example 1. The flowchart which shows the coin storage process of Example 1. The flowchart which shows the coin storage process of Example 2.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Cash automatic transaction apparatus 2 Display input part 3 Card handling part 4 Passbook handling part 5 Banknote depositing / withdrawing part 6 Coin depositing / withdrawing part 7 Main control part 8 Transaction apparatus memory | storage part 10 Coin depositing / withdrawing port 11 Feeding part 12 Discrimination part 13 Depositing conveyance Part 14 Temporary Reservation Part 15 Money Type Stacker 16 Withdrawal Transport Part 17 Overflow Stacker 18 Guide Part 19 Coin Control Part 20 Coin Storage Part

Claims (2)

A discrimination part for counting the type and number of coins entered, a temporary holding part for temporarily storing coins discriminated in the discrimination part, and storing the coins of the temporary holding part in denominations In a coin handling apparatus comprising a denomination stacker and an overflow stacker for storing a part of the coins when the denomination stacker is full,
A coin handling apparatus that stores coins that are inserted and sent to the temporary storage unit directly into an overflow stacker during a cash transfer transaction. A discrimination part for counting the type and number of coins entered, a temporary holding part for temporarily storing coins discriminated in the discrimination part, and storing the coins of the temporary holding part in denominations In a coin handling apparatus comprising a denomination stacker and an overflow stacker for storing a part of the coins when the denomination stacker is full,
A coin handling apparatus for storing coins in the temporary storage unit directly into an overflow stacker when the number of inserted coins is equal to or less than a reference number.