JP2006350952A - Medium processor - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent dust from entering into a magnetic head movement mechanism in a medium processor with the magnetic head movement mechanism located under a shutter member. <P>SOLUTION: An opening and closing shutter 13 partially constitutes a conveyance path 12 for a passbook 11. The opening and closing shutter 13 is turnable around a supporting point 16 so as to open downward. A magnetic head carriage 19 is provided under the opening and closing shutter 13 movably along a drive shaft 17 and a guide shaft 18. Dust guards 21a and 21b are positioned above the drive shaft 17 and the guide shaft 18, respectively. Even though dust falls when the opening and closing shutter 13 opens, the dust is prevented from being stuck to the drive shaft 17 and the guide shaft 18. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a medium processing apparatus that performs processing such as writing / reading or printing magnetic data on a medium such as a passbook used in a financial institution or the like.

  Conventionally, in a passbook processing apparatus for writing / reading magnetic data to / from a magnetic stripe provided in a passbook, the magnetic head is moved in a direction perpendicular to the transport direction in which the passbook is transported into the apparatus. Writing / reading is performed. When writing / reading the magnetic data is not performed, the magnetic head is retracted from the passbook transport path in order to prevent the banknote transport jam, and the transport path is closed by an openable / closable shutter member.

  On the other hand, some automatic transaction apparatuses equipped with a bankbook processing apparatus are installed in the field, and in such apparatuses, there is a possibility that dust may enter from an insertion port of the bankbook. Especially in continents such as China, it may be hit by yellow sand. When such dust enters the apparatus having the shutter member described above, there is a risk of damage to components or malfunction.

In order to solve such a problem, for example, in an apparatus disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2003-141452, dust attached to the shutter member is provided on the shutter member by a cleaning member attached to the magnetic head carrier. It is dropped into a dust collecting groove, and further dropped into a dust collecting tray provided on the bottom of the apparatus.
JP 2003-141452 A

  However, as disclosed in the above document, the mechanism for dropping dust from the shutter member to the dust collecting tray provided on the bottom surface of the apparatus has a moving mechanism for moving the magnetic head located below the shutter member. This is not applicable to devices that fall because falling dust falls on the moving mechanism. That is, another solution for preventing dust has been desired for an apparatus in which the magnetic head moving mechanism is located below the shutter member.

  In order to solve the above-described problems, the present invention provides a medium processing apparatus having a processing unit that performs processing on a medium while moving along a shaft member. A guard member that covers the shaft member is provided above the shaft member. It is characterized by providing.

  According to another aspect of the invention, there is provided a shutter member rotatably provided above the shaft member, and a cleaning member that is provided on the shutter member and contacts the shaft member when the shutter member rotates. It is what I did.

  Still another invention is characterized in that a cleaning member is provided which is attached to the processing portion and moves in contact with the shaft member as the processing portion moves along the shaft member.

  According to the present invention having the above-described configuration, the guard member is provided above the shaft member, so that even if the dust falls from above, the dust can be prevented from adhering to the shaft member, thereby preventing damage or malfunction of parts. it can.

  According to another invention, when the shutter member rotates, the cleaning member contacts and cleans the shaft member, so that it can be prevented from adhering to the shaft member, and damage or malfunction of parts can be prevented.

  According to still another invention, when the processing unit moves along the shaft member, the cleaning member contacts and cleans the shaft member, so that it can be prevented from adhering to the shaft member, and damage or malfunction of parts can be prevented. Can be prevented.

  Several embodiments for carrying out the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a side view showing a main part of a bankbook processing apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a system configuration of the bankbook processing apparatus according to the embodiment, and FIG. 3 is a first embodiment. It is a top view which shows the principal part of this bankbook processing apparatus. In the embodiments described below, a bankbook processing apparatus is described as an example of the medium processing apparatus. First, the system configuration will be described with reference to FIG.

  In FIG. 2, a passbook processing apparatus 1 is connected to a control personal computer 2, and a magnetic writing / reading unit 3 and a printing unit 4 are provided therein. Although the details will be described later, the magnetic writing / reading unit 3 includes a magnetic head, and writes or reads magnetic data with respect to the magnetic stripe of the passbook. The printing unit 4 has a print head 5 and a platen 6 and prints transaction data on a passbook. The control personal computer 2 includes a main body unit 7 and a display unit 8, and transmits a control command to the passbook processing apparatus 1 via the connection code 9 to execute processing.

  1 and 3, the passbook processing apparatus 1 according to the first embodiment is provided with a passbook insertion port 10 from which a passbook 11 is inserted. A passbook transport path 12 is formed in connection with the insertion slot 10. The passbook transport path 12 is composed of an upper guide 12a, lower guides 12b and 12c, and an opening / closing shutter 13, and a pair of transport rollers 14a and 14b are provided. A magnet plate 15 is provided on the lower surface of the upper guide 12a.

  The open / close shutter 13 is attached to a device frame (not shown) so as to be rotatable about a fulcrum 16 and is rotated at least 90 degrees by a driving means (not shown) to a position indicated by a dotted line in FIG. 1 has a mechanism that can hold the position in the horizontal state and a mechanism that can hold the position in the vertical state shown by a dotted line.

  A drive shaft 17 and a guide shaft 18 are provided below the opening / closing shutter 13, and a magnetic head carriage 19 is slidably attached to both the shafts 17 and 18. The magnetic head carriage 19 carries the magnetic head 20 and moves below the magnetic stripe 11 a of the bankbook 11. The drive shaft 17 is constituted by a screw shaft. When the drive shaft 17 is rotated by a motor (not shown), the magnetic head carriage 19 moves in the direction of arrows AB shown in FIG.

  The magnetic head carriage 19 is formed in an inverted T shape as shown in FIG. 1, and a space is formed above the fitting portions 19a and 19b to the drive shaft 17 and the guide shaft 18, and a dust guard is formed in this space. 21a and 21b are provided. The dust guards 21a and 21b are provided over the entire width of the conveyance path 12, and are fixed to an apparatus frame (not shown). The dust guards 21a and 21b are formed to have a width wider than the diameters of the drive shaft 17 and the guide shaft 18, and prevent dust falling from above from adhering to the shafts 17 and 18. In the present embodiment, the dust guards 21a and 21b are formed of film-like members, but may be formed of other members such as metal members.

  When the magnetic head carriage 19 does not write or read magnetic data, the magnetic head carriage 19 is retracted to a retracted position on the side of the conveyance path 12 of the bankbook 11 as shown in FIG. The magnetic head 20 is provided so as to be able to expand and contract with respect to the magnetic head carriage 19, is in a retracted state when retracted, and expands upward when writing / reading magnetic data.

  Next, the operation of the passbook processing apparatus in the first embodiment will be described. Here, an operation of writing or reading data with respect to the magnetic stripe 11a of the bankbook 11 by the magnetic head 20 will be described. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a magnetic data write / read operation according to the first embodiment, and FIGS. 5, 6, and 7 are operation explanatory views showing the magnetic data write / read operation. This will be described below.

  In FIG. 1, when the bankbook 11 is inserted into the insertion slot 10 of the bankbook processing apparatus 1, the insertion is detected by a detection sensor (not shown), the transport rollers 14a and 14b are rotated, and the inserted bankbook 11 is shown in FIG. As shown, it is conveyed into the apparatus (step 1). In this state, the open / close shutter 13 is held in a horizontal state, and the magnetic head carriage 19 is located at the retracted position shown in FIG.

  When the bankbook 11 is transported to a predetermined position, it is detected by a detection sensor (not shown), the driving of the transport rollers 14a and 14b is stopped, and the bankbook 11 stops at the predetermined position (step 2). At this time, the magnetic stripe 11a of the bankbook 11 is positioned above the open / close shutter 13 in a horizontal state as shown in FIG. Next, the open / close shutter 13 is opened. That is, as shown in FIG. 6, it is rotated 90 degrees downward (step 3).

  Next, the drive shaft 17 is rotated by a motor (not shown), the magnetic head carriage 19 is moved from the retracted position in the direction of arrow A shown in FIG. 3, and the magnetic head 20 is positioned below the magnetic stripe 11 a of the passbook 11. At this time, the magnetic head carriage 19 moves without interfering with the dust guards 21a and 21b. Then, as shown in FIG. 7, the magnetic head 20 is raised using the spring 23 in the magnetic head carriage 19 and pressed against the magnetic stripe 11a (step 4).

  Next, the drive shaft 17 is rotated by a motor (not shown) to move the magnetic head carriage 19, and the magnetic head 20 reads magnetic data from the magnetic stripe 11a or writes magnetic data (step 5). When the reading operation or writing operation is completed, the magnetic head 20 is lowered to a position based on the magnetic head 20, and the drive shaft 17 is rotated by a motor (not shown) to move the magnetic head carriage 19 to the retracted position (step 6). Next, the opening / closing shutter 13 is rotated counterclockwise from the state shown in FIG. 7 by driving means (not shown) to return to the horizontal state shown in FIG. 5 (step 7).

  The opening / closing shutter 13 is close to the insertion opening 10 of the bankbook 11, and dust that has entered from the insertion opening 10 tends to accumulate on the opening / closing shutter 13. As described above, since the opening / closing shutter 13 opens and closes when reading / writing magnetic data, there is a possibility that dust accumulated in the upper part adheres to the drive shaft 17 or the guide shaft 18. However, in the present embodiment, since the dust guards 21a and 21b are provided, the dust falling from the open / close shutter 13 adheres to the dust guards 21a and 21b and does not adhere to the drive shaft 17 and the guide shaft 18.

  As described above, according to the first embodiment, since the dust guards 21a and 21b are provided, it is possible to prevent the dust falling from the open / close shutter 13 from adhering to the drive shaft 17 and the guide shaft 18. . Therefore, the dust can be prevented from adversely affecting the reading / writing of the magnetic data.

  Next, a second embodiment will be described. FIG. 8 is a side view showing a main part of the bankbook processing apparatus according to the second embodiment. In FIG. 8, the opening / closing shutter 13a of the second embodiment is provided with a cleaning tool 25 at the tip as viewed from the rotation fulcrum 16. The length of the cleaning tool 25 is set to such a length that at least the tip of the cleaning tool 25 contacts the drive shaft 17 and the guide shaft 18 when the open / close shutter 13a rotates. The cleaning tool 25 is formed in a brush shape, and is provided over the entire length of the opening / closing shaft 17 (the length in the direction of arrows AB shown in FIG. 3). Other configurations are the same as those in the first embodiment. In the second embodiment, the dust guards 21a and 21b are not provided.

  Next, the operation of the second embodiment will be further described with reference to FIG. FIG. 9 is an operation explanatory diagram showing the operation of the second embodiment. The open / close shutter 13a is in a horizontal state as shown in FIG. 8 until the bankbook 11 is inserted from the insertion slot 10 and conveyed to a predetermined position. When the bankbook 11 is conveyed to a predetermined position, as shown in FIG. 9, the open / close shutter 13a rotates 90 degrees in the clockwise direction.

  At this time, as indicated by a dotted line in FIG. 9, the distal end portion 25 a of the cleaning tool 25 comes into contact with the drive shaft 17 to clean the dust adhering to the drive shaft 17. When the opening / closing shutter 13a further rotates, the distal end portion 25a of the cleaning tool 25 comes into contact with the guide shaft 18, and the dust adhering to the guide shaft 18 is cleaned. Then, the rotation is stopped at a position indicated by a solid line in FIG. Next, as described in the first embodiment, the magnetic head carriage 19 moves to read or write magnetic data with respect to the magnetic stripe 11 a of the bankbook 11.

  As described above, since the drive shaft 17 and the guide shaft 18 are cleaned by the cleaning tool 25 immediately before the magnetic head carriage 19 starts to move, even if dust is attached to the drive shaft 17 or the guide shaft 18, the magnetic data Can be prevented from being adversely affected.

  Further, when the opening / closing shutter 13a is opened, the opening / closing shutter 13a may be reciprocated so that the cleaning tool 25 contacts the drive shaft 17 and the guide shaft 18 from both directions. In this way, even when dust that has fallen from the open / close shutter 13a after the cleaning tool 25 passes through the drive shaft 17 or the guide shaft 18 adheres to the drive shaft 17 or the guide shaft 18, the adhering dust is cleaned. Can do. If the reciprocating operation is performed a plurality of times, the cleaning effect is further improved. The material of the cleaning tool 25 is not limited. A rubber material or other material may be used.

  Next, a third embodiment of the present invention will be described. FIG. 10 is a front view showing a main part of a bankbook processing apparatus according to the third embodiment. In FIG. 10, in the third embodiment, cleaning tools 26 and 27 are attached before and after the moving direction of the magnetic head carriage 19. The cleaning tools 26 and 27 are formed in a brush shape, and are respectively provided on the drive shaft 17 and the guide shaft 18 on which the magnetic head carriage 19 is fitted. When the magnetic head carriage 19 moves on the drive shaft 17 and the guide shaft 18, it is formed so as to contact at least the upper portions of the drive shaft 17 and the guide shaft 18. Other configurations are the same as those of the first embodiment. In the third embodiment, the dust guards 21a and 21b are not provided.

  Next, the operation will be described. When the inserted bankbook 11 is conveyed to a predetermined position, the opening / closing shutter 13 (not shown) is opened, and the magnetic head carriage 19 is moved from the retracted position in the direction of arrow A shown in the drawing. When the open / close shutter 13 is opened, dust attached to the upper part of the open / close shutter 13 may fall. The fallen dust adheres to the upper part of drive shaft 17 or guide shaft 18 (portions 18a and 17a shown in FIG. 10).

  When the magnetic head carriage 19 moves in the direction of arrow A, the cleaning tool 26 at the head in the moving direction cleans the upper portions 17a and 18a, and dust enters between the drive shaft 17 or the guide shaft 18 and the magnetic head carriage 19. Do not. When the magnetic head carriage 19 moves in the direction of arrow B, the cleaning tool 27 cleans the upper portions 17a and 18a of the shafts 17 and 18.

  As described above, according to the third embodiment, the dust attached to the drive shaft 17 or the guide shaft 18 is cleaned by the cleaning tools 26 and 27 when the magnetic head carriage 19 is moved. It is possible to prevent an adverse effect on the movement operation.

  The present invention is not limited to the above embodiments. For example, the dust guard and the cleaning tool in each of the above embodiments may be provided in a replaceable manner. In addition, the material of these dust guards and cleaning tools is not limited.

It is a side view which shows the principal part of the bankbook processing apparatus of the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the system configuration | structure of the bankbook processing apparatus of embodiment. It is a top view which shows the principal part of the bankbook processing apparatus of 1st Embodiment. It is a flowchart which shows the writing / reading operation | movement of the magnetic data in 1st Embodiment. FIG. 6 is an operation explanatory diagram illustrating magnetic data write / read operations according to the first embodiment. FIG. 6 is an operation explanatory diagram illustrating magnetic data write / read operations according to the first embodiment. FIG. 6 is an operation explanatory diagram illustrating magnetic data write / read operations according to the first embodiment. It is a side view which shows the principal part of the bankbook processing apparatus of 2nd Embodiment. It is operation | movement explanatory drawing which shows operation | movement of 2nd Embodiment. It is a front view which shows the principal part of the bankbook processing apparatus of 3rd Embodiment.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Passbook processing apparatus 3 Magnetic writing / reading part 11 Passbook 13 Opening / closing shutter 19 Magnetic head carriage 20 Magnetic head 21a, 21b Dust guards 25, 26, 27 Cleaning tool

Claims (3)

In a medium processing apparatus having a processing unit that performs processing on a medium while moving along a shaft member,
A medium processing apparatus, comprising a guard member that covers the shaft member above the shaft member. In a medium processing apparatus having a processing unit that performs processing on a medium while moving along a shaft member,
A shutter member rotatably provided above the shaft member;
A medium processing apparatus comprising: a cleaning member that is provided on the shutter member and contacts the shaft member when the shutter member rotates. In a medium processing apparatus having a processing unit that performs processing on a medium while moving along a shaft member,
A medium processing apparatus, comprising: a cleaning member attached to the processing unit and moving in contact with the shaft member as the processing unit moves along the shaft member.

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