JP2005266982A - Paper money dispenser - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the following problem: when a paper money dispenser generates an error by remaining of a bill in a customer reception part or a temporary storage part during a transaction of a customer, an attendant cannot immediately decide whether the remaining bill is 'a possession of a financial institution or the like' or 'a possession of the customer' to result in a cause of trouble with the customer. <P>SOLUTION: This paper money dispenser comprises the customer reception part, a discrimination part, the temporary storage part, a denomination-classified cash box, and a reject storage or the like. In the paper money dispenser, the respective units are connected by a carrying path. At least the customer reception part and the temporary storage part are provided with remaining sensors, two kinds of LED lamps having different colors are respectively disposed in visible positions of the respective parts, and it is displayed by the LED lamps whether the remaining bill in the customer reception part or the temporary storage part is 'the possession of the customer' or 'the possession of the financial institution or the like' in time of the error in money payment or money reception, by a matrix of a predetermined blink specification of the LED lamps. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a banknote depositing and dispensing machine mounted in an automatic teller machine installed in a financial institution, a convenience store or the like.

A bill depositing / dispensing machine mounted in a conventional automatic teller machine has a structure as shown in FIG.
The structure includes a customer service section 1 having a banknote deposit / withdrawal port, a depositing section 2 for discriminating that the deposit or withdrawal is inappropriate for depositing / withdrawing, and a temporary holding for temporarily depositing deposited banknotes identified by the discrimination section 2. Part 3, money-type safes 4a to 4d for storing banknotes deposited by customers and banknotes for withdrawal to customers, unsuitable for deposit or withdrawal, or unpaid state from money-type safes, for example, taking out 2 sheets The reject storage 5 or the like for storing banknotes or the like in which banknote handling abnormality is detected is connected, and these units are connected by a transport path 6.

And it can divide into "payment" and "payment" as a main function of a bill depositing and dispensing machine.
“Payment” is a function of paying out banknotes by the amount and number of sheets requested by the customer, and the operation of the banknote depositing and dispensing machine is as shown in FIG. A bill is fed from 4d to the transport path.
The fed banknotes are discriminated as “normal banknotes” or “abnormal banknotes” by the discriminating unit 2, accumulated in the customer service unit 1 in the case of “normal banknotes”, and rejected in the reject storage 5 in the case of “abnormal banknotes”. Accumulated.

The banknote depositing / dispensing machine continues the above processing until the accumulated banknotes in the customer service section 1 reach the amount and the number of sheets as requested by the customer. And the “payment” transaction ends.
During this “payment” transaction, the cash is generally “customer property” when the customer receives the cash (when the device is ready to receive money). Possession ".

“Deposit” is a function of storing cash (banknotes) inserted by a customer in an automatic teller machine, and the operation of the banknote depositing and dispensing machine will be described with reference to FIGS. 6 and 7.
First, a customer inserts banknotes into the customer service section 1. The inserted banknote is fed out from the customer service unit 1 to the conveyance path 6. The fed banknotes are discriminated as “normal banknotes” or “abnormal banknotes” by judging whether the banknotes are true, false, or heavy by the discriminating unit 2. In the case of “normal banknotes”, they are accumulated in the temporary storage unit 3. The “abnormal banknotes” are returned to the customer service unit 1 and accumulated. This is a process generally called “deposit counting” (FIG. 6), and the banknote depositing and dispensing machine notifies the customer of the counting result (amount). If the customer does not agree with the amount, the “payment counting” can be performed again or “cancel”, and the banknote or card can be returned to the customer to complete the “payment” transaction.

When the customer agrees with the amount of the “payment counting” result, the banknote depositing / dispensing machine proceeds to a process of “storage counting”, and as shown in FIG. Store in a banknote safe or money-type safe.
In general, during the “deposit” transaction, the cash is “property of financial institutions” after the customer agrees to the amount of the “deposit count” result. It is.

In such a bill depositing / dispensing machine, as means for notifying an error such as a state in which bills are jammed in the customer service section, temporary holding section, etc., sensors and lamps are attached to their entrances, and the staff is notified by flashing the lamps. There is a technique for removing banknotes jammed by an attendant. (For example, refer to Patent Document 1).
JP 2000-103544 A

However, in the above-described conventional technology, as shown in FIGS. 8 and 9, due to an error or the like during the transaction of the customer, if the banknote remains in the customer service section or the temporary storage section, the remaining banknote is “financial institution or the like. The problem is that the staff cannot immediately determine whether it is "owned property" or "customer property", which causes trouble with the customer.
The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide means for immediately displaying whether the remaining banknotes are “owned by a financial institution” or “owned by a customer”. .

  Therefore, the present invention is composed of a customer service section, a discrimination section, a temporary storage section and a money type safe, etc., and these units are connected by a conveyance path, and in a banknote depositing and dispensing machine capable of at least depositing and dispensing transactions between a customer and a financial institution, At least a bill remaining sensor is provided in the customer service section and the temporary storage section, and a plurality of lamps having different colors are arranged at their visible positions, respectively. The lamp displays whether the customer's property or the property of the financial institution of the remaining banknote in the customer service section and the temporary storage section at the time of depositing is an error.

  As a result, when an error occurs, the present invention can immediately display whether or not the remaining banknote at the occurrence location is “customer's property” or “property such as a financial institution” with the color of the lamp, and can be visually checked. Can be prevented, and the remaining banknotes can be taken out.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration.
The figure shows a banknote depositing / dispensing machine, which is similar to the conventional structure described above, a customer service unit 1 having a banknote depositing / withdrawing port, and a discrimination unit 2 for discriminating that it is inappropriate for depositing / withdrawing at the time of depositing / withdrawing. Temporary holding unit 3 for temporarily holding the deposited banknotes identified by the discrimination unit 2, denomination safes 4a to 4d for storing banknotes deposited by customers and banknotes for withdrawal to customers, and unsuitable for depositing or withdrawing. Or a reject storage box 5 for storing banknotes in which an abnormality in banknote handling such as taking out two sheets is detected, etc., and these units are connected by a transport path 6. Yes.

  While the customer service unit 1, the discrimination unit 2, the temporary storage unit 3, the denomination safes 4a to 4d, and the reject storage 5 are provided with banknote remaining sensors 7-1 to 7-n at predetermined portions of the transport path 6, respectively. Green LED lamps 8-1 to 8-n and red LED lamps 9-1 to 9-n are arranged as lamps at positions where the clerk can easily see each of the customer service unit 1, the temporary storage unit 3, and the like. .

  The LED driver circuits 10-1 to 10-n and 11-1 to 11-n of the green LED lamps 8-1 to 8-n and the red LED lamps 9-1 to 9-n are AD converters. 12, a CPU 13, and the like, and a firmware that is a memory that controls the detection of the presence / absence of bills by the respective sensors as “lighting”, “lighting off”, and “flashing” of each LED lamp by the CPU 13. A wear program 14 is provided.

The operation at the time of depositing and withdrawing in the above configuration will be described with reference to the matrix of FIG. 3 with respect to the “lighting”, “lighting off”, and “flashing” states of the lamps in the customer service section 1 and the temporary storage section 3.
When the bill depositing / dispensing machine becomes an error and the operation is stopped, the CPU 13 determines the execution state when the error occurs.
First, it is determined whether the error occurs “when depositing” or “withdrawing”. That is, the temporary holding unit is a unit that is used at the time of “payment” and is not used at the time of “withdrawal”.

Next, “the presence / absence of banknotes remaining in the customer service unit” and “the presence / absence of banknotes remaining in the temporary storage unit” are determined.
Based on the determination, it is determined whether it is “ownership of the customer” or “ownership of a financial institution”.
According to the determination result, one of the 16 patterns of the matrix is selected, and the green LED lamp and the red LED lamp of each of the customer service unit 1 and the temporary storage unit 3 are turned on, turned off, or Blink ". In this case, “lighting” and “blinking” are used as the same meaning, and either one of them may be set. In this matrix, only blinking is used.

The clerk can confirm the blinking state of the LED lamp, and can quickly process the banknotes remaining in the customer service unit 1 and / or the temporary storage unit 3. In the case of this matrix, the green LED lamp indicates a customer, and the red LED lamp indicates a financial institution or the like.
For example, in the case of the blinking pattern 2 in the matrix of FIG. 3, the customer service portion is “with banknote of customer” and the temporary storage portion is “no banknote”, and the green LED lamp indicating the customer side is blinked. It is possible to determine that there is a customer's banknote by turning off the red LED lamp on the same side, and "no banknote in the temporary holding part" indicates that there is no banknote in the temporary holding part by turning off both the green LED lamp and the red LED lamp. It can be judged that there is no.

In addition, as described above, the temporary holding section is used at the time of “withdrawal” and is not used at the time of “withdrawal”. When it is determined that the processing is “gold”, both the green and red LED lamps of the temporary storage unit 3 are extinguished.
The unknown banknote is, for example, a banknote in a case where the banknote is broken and divided.
In this way, by using lamps with different colors for the customer side and the financial institution side, both lamps are installed in the customer service unit 1 and the temporary storage unit 3, respectively, and stored in the customer service unit 1 and the temporary storage unit 3 respectively. Whether the banknote is from a customer or from a financial institution can be immediately confirmed by "Who is it?"

In the above description, the customer service unit 1 and the temporary storage unit 3 have been described. For example, a sensor, a green LED lamp, and a red LED lamp are arranged on the conveyance path between the customer service unit 1 and the temporary storage unit 3. By doing so, it is possible to visually check whether the banknote due to an error at that location is that of a customer or a financial institution.
Further, in the above configuration, for example, a schematic configuration diagram of the banknote depositing / dispensing machine is displayed on a staff operation unit provided in a maintenance door of the automatic teller machine, and each configuration unit or transport path displayed in the schematic configuration diagram is displayed. It is also possible to make it possible to visually check whether the banknote due to the error at each location is that of the customer or that of a financial institution by arranging a green LED lamp and a red LED lamp respectively. May be displayed as, for example, “All banknotes between the customer service section and the temporary storage section belong to the customer”.

Note that the color of the LED lamp is not limited to green and red, and any color may be used as long as it emits multicolor light. It is sufficient that the customer side and the financial institution side can display at least different colors.
Although the above explanation was given as a bill depositing / dispensing machine, it can naturally be applied to a coin depositing / dispensing machine.

Explanatory drawing which shows an Example Block diagram showing the configuration Flashing specification matrix Explanatory drawing showing a conventional example Explanatory drawing at the time of payment Explanatory drawing at the time of deposit counting Explanatory drawing during storage counting Illustration of a situation where it is difficult to distinguish owners Illustration of a situation where it is difficult to distinguish owners

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Customer service part 2 Discrimination part 3 Temporary reservation part 4a-4d Money-type safe 5 Reject storage 6 Transport path 7-1-7-n Banknote residual sensor 8-1-8-n Green LED lamps 9-1-9-n Red LED lamp 10-1 to 10-n LED driver circuit 11-1 to 11-n LED driver circuit 12 AD converter 13 CPU
14 Firmware program

Claims (2)

In the banknote depositing and dispensing machine, which consists of a customer service section, a discrimination section, a temporary storage section, a denomination safe, etc., and these units are connected by a conveyance path, and at least deposit and withdrawal transactions can be performed at a customer and a financial institution,
A bill residue sensor is provided in each of the above units and the conveyance path, and a plurality of lamps having different colors are arranged at their visible positions, and an error at the time of dispensing and depositing is determined by a predetermined combination of blinking of these lamps. -A bill depositing / dispensing machine, wherein the lamp indicates whether the remaining bills are "customer's property" or "financial property's property" in each unit.     The bill depositing / dispensing machine according to claim 1, wherein the unit for installing the lamp is a customer service unit and a temporary storage unit.