JP2009093302A - Bill counter - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a low-profile and power-saving bill counter counting many kinds of bills so that a bundle of bills placed on a hopper are automatically positioned at one longitudinal end by their own weight. <P>SOLUTION: The bill counter A comprises: a hopper 2 for placing a bundle B of bills thereon; a conveyance path 9 for conveying bills (b) hopping out of the hopper 2; a sensor unit 10 for verifying the bills (b) and identifying their kind, etc.; diverters 11, 12 for sorting and guiding the bills according to commands identified; impellers 3, 4 for delivering the sorted bills (b); stackers 5, 6 for stocking the bills (b); and a bill counting means. The hopper 2 forms both V-shaped inclined faces 2b that descend to a positioning end at one longitudinal end of each bill (b). Further, an upper conveyance path 13 for the bills sorted by the diverter 11 at an upper end leads to a reject box 14. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a banknote counter used for counting each denomination by discriminating the authenticity and denomination of banknotes in an industry that handles a large amount of banknotes.

A banknote counting processing technique for counting the true denomination by discriminating the authenticity and denomination of banknotes from a bundle of banknotes in which various types of banknotes are mixed is disclosed in JP-A-11-316869 (Patent Document 1), JP-A-2003-296801 (Patent Document 2), JP-A-2005-165806 (Patent Document 3) and the like are all proposed, but the hopper for placing a bill places the bill in a horizontal state. Therefore, since positioning means are required and the arrangement of the impellers is one system for each stage, the stacker is disposed only on one side and the height is increased.
JP-A-11-316869 JP 2003-296801 A JP-A-2005-165806

  Therefore, in view of the above, the present invention is designed so that the banknotes placed on the hopper are automatically positioned at one end in the longitudinal direction by the action of their own weight, and the height of the banknotes is lowered and various kinds of denominations are selected. Provided is a banknote counter capable of counting and labor-saving in an easy posture.

The banknote counter according to claim 1 of the present invention includes a hopper on which banknotes are placed, a transport path for transporting banknotes kicked out of the hopper, and the authenticity and denomination of banknotes disposed on the transport path. A diverter that guides the final transport destination based on the determined command, an impeller that carries out the sorted banknotes, a stacker that stocks the banknotes carried out by the impeller, and a banknote count A bill counter comprising:
The said hopper has a V-shaped inclined surface descend | falling to the positioning end of one end along the longitudinal direction of a banknote.
Moreover, the banknote counter described in claim 2 is the banknote counter described in claim 1,
In the diverter in which a plurality of the diverters are arranged above and below, the carry-out path sorted by the required diverters up and down is communicated with the left and right impellers for carrying out bills to the left and right stackers, respectively.
Furthermore, the banknote counter described in claim 3 is the banknote counter described in claim 2,
The carry-out path sorted by the upper end diverter is connected to the reject box.

  According to the banknote counting machine of the present invention, the hopper on which the banknote bundle is placed descends toward the positioning end at one end in the longitudinal direction of the banknote, so that the banknote bundle is automatically positioned by its own weight. Since one end is aligned with the end, manual positioning is not required regardless of the bill length, and the denominations sorted to the left and right stackers can be stocked, so the overall height can be lowered and workability can be reduced. Has the effect of improving.

  Both V-shaped inclined surfaces of the hopper descend along the inclined line of a required angle toward the positioning end at one end in the longitudinal direction, but the conveyance path is also formed along the inclined line. The mounting surface is selected from an inclined surface parallel to the inclined line to a horizontal surface, and a diverter distributes bills conveyed by one diverter to left and right impellers, 2 For example, the bills conveyed by each diverter are distributed to the left and right impellers, and the impellers arranged opposite to the left and right are arranged with a phase difference in the front-rear direction between the blades. The thing which provided the conveyance path (conveyance space) between both blades from what does not provide space is mentioned.

The present invention will be described with reference to embodiments. As shown in FIGS. 1 to 6, the plan view is circular, and the design aesthetics have a required inclined form from the front view to the left and right side views. It presents.
As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the center of the hopper 2 placed on the upper surface of the case 1 having a width of 280 mm, a height of 301 mm, and a depth of 341 mm and placing the banknote bundle B is left from the center of the case 1. Both V-shaped inclined surfaces 2b are formed along the inclined line 2a descending from the front side toward the positioning end on the rear side with a 40mm displacement, and further downward from the center to the left. A pair of left and right impellers 3 and 4 are pivotally pivotally supported by a motor (not shown in the figure) on the left and right sides of the center line shifted by 15 mm. The left stacker 5 and the right stacker 6 are arranged for stocking the banknotes b carried out by the blades 3a and 4a, except for a part of the blades 3a and 4a of the impellers 3 and 4, respectively.
Explaining the main part disposed inside the case 1, as shown in FIG. 7, the banknote bundle B placed on the hopper 2 is kicked out by the kick roller 7 with the banknotes b kicked out one by one. The bills b are sandwiched between the lower feed roller 8 and the upper separation roller 8a, and are transported by the transport path 9 turning from the right end toward the lower side further to the left. The sensor unit 10 including the front sensor 10a, the intermediate sensor 10b, and the rear sensor 10c is used to determine the authenticity and denomination of the bill b, and the conveyance path 9 is further extended downward in an S shape at the left end. A teardrop-shaped upper diverter 11 and a lower diverter 12 driven by a rotary solenoid (not shown) are respectively supported in the vicinity of the left end and the lower end of the conveyance path 9, and are supported by the upper diverter 11. The upper carry-out path 13 that is opened communicates with a reject box 14 provided on the upper left side, and the left carry-out path 15 that is distributed by the lower diverter 12 communicates with the left stacker 5 via the left impeller 3, The right carry-out path 16 communicates with the right stacker 6 via the right impeller 4, and the kick roller 7 and the feed roller 8 are driven by a motor (not shown) separate from the drive of the left and right impellers 3 and 4. The last feed rollers 17 and 17 closest to the lower diverter 12 are also driven by a motor (not shown) of a system different from the motors.
As shown in FIG. 3, the left impeller 3 for carrying out the bill b to the left stacker 5 has a narrow space between the front and rear, and the pair of front and rear right impellers 4 for carrying out the bill b to the right stacker 6 is shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. 2, since the pair of left impellers 3 are arranged at a wide interval so as to sandwich the left and right impellers 3, the two support shafts are spaced so that the blades 3a and 4a of the two impellers 3 and 4 intersect each other. It is supported in a space-saving manner by making it as narrow as possible. One of the left impeller 3 and the right impeller 4 is rotated in the hour hand direction and the other is rotated in the counter hour hand direction, thereby deepening the overlap of the rotation trajectories of the blades 3a and 4a, thereby facilitating the removal of the bill B.

In the bill counter A constructed as described above, the bill bundle B is placed on the hopper 2 and kicked out by the one addressed kick roller 7, and the kicked first bill b is constituted by various rollers. The signal obtained from the sensor unit 10 that is transported on the transport path 9 and disposed in the middle of the transport path 9 is pattern-recognized by the control board 18 and, for example, when the denomination P is determined, the lower diverter 12 is turned to the right, the right carry-out path 16 is closed, the banknote b is stocked in the left stacker 5 by the left impeller 3 through the left carry-out path 15, and the second banknote b is determined as the denomination Q. The lower diverter 12 is rotated to the left to close the left carry-out path 15, and the bill b sandwiched between the blade 4 a of the right impeller 4 from the right carry-out path 16 is stocked in the right stacker 6, If the third banknote b is denomination P, as above However, when it is determined that the denomination R is other than the denominations P and Q, the transport path 9 is closed by the upper diverter 11 and the upper unloading path 13 is Opened, unloaded from the upper unloading path 13 to the reject box 14 and stocked.
In this way, the denomination P or Q banknote b is stocked in the left stacker 5 and the right stacker 6 and counted by the banknote counting means, but denominations R and denominations S other than denominations P and Q are included. , T and other bills b are stocked in the reject box 14 in the same manner as the processing of the denomination R bills b.
In other words, depending on the scale of denomination processing, all banknotes b other than denominations P and Q are stocked in the reject box 14 and are controlled in advance rather than commanding the denomination stock location from the outside (key operation or the like). It is executed by an efficient program that automatically discriminates based on pattern recognition (information) built in the substrate 18.
When the banknote bundle B stocked in the reject box 14 is also placed on the hopper 2 and counted, the banknote b is placed on the left as described above based on the pattern recognition of the first banknote b. When it is stocked on the stacker 5 and counted, and the pattern recognition of the second banknote b is different from the pattern recognition on the first sheet, it is stocked on the right stacker 6 and counted, and other pattern recognition is performed. The bills b are stocked in the reject box 14. In this way, the same processing is repeated.
The outer shape of the case 1 can be selected in various ways. For example, the outer shape of the case 1 is provided having a planar shape shown in FIG. 8 and a bottom shape shown in FIG.

In addition to the above, the banknote counter A that handles many denominations is provided with a left and right left impeller 3 and a right impeller 4 provided in multiple stages and a large number of left stackers 5 and right stackers 6 arranged. Can be done.
That is, as shown in FIG. 10 as an example, when the left impeller 3 and the right impeller 4 are configured in two upper and lower stages, the left carry-out path 15 communicating with the upper left impeller 3 and the right impeller The left diverter 19 and the right diverter 20 for distributing and guiding the bill b to the right carry-out path 16 communicating with 4 are arranged on the left and right, and when the bill b is guided to the left carry-out path 15, the right diverter 20 is When the left diverter 19 rotates to the right and is positioned at the positioning end and guides the bill b to the right carry-out path 16, the left diverter 19 rotates to the left and escapes. The left diverter 20 is rotated to the left and positioned at the positioning end, and the left carry-out path 15 communicating with the lower left impeller 3 is used without using the upper left and right carry-out paths 15 and 16. And the right communicating with the right impeller 4 When the banknote b is guided to the exit path 16, the left diverter 19 and the right diverter 20 are respectively retracted to the left rotation escape end and the right rotation escape end, respectively, and accompanied by a feeding means such as air supply. A cylindrical transport path 21 is formed, and the bill b passing through the transport path 21 is operated by the left and right impellers 3 and 4 by the operation of the lower diverter 12 according to a command from the control board 18 as described above. Each bill b of the stacker 6 is stocked, counted by a bill counting means (not shown), and displayed on a display device (not shown).
As described above, the banknote counter A of the present invention automatically aligns the banknote bundle B placed on the hopper 2 with the positioning end, so that positioning cost is unnecessary and the detection sensitivity range can be narrowed. Moreover, since the bills b of various denominations are stocked on the left and right stackers 5 and 6, the overall height is kept as low as possible, and the counting operation of the bills b is facilitated.

  The banknote counting machine of the present invention is used in the financial industry, large mass retailers, playgrounds and other industries that handle large amounts of denominations, and it is easy to place banknote bundles on a hopper, and does not require positioning costs. A lot of demand is expected in that it can be tabulated with easy work.

The front view of the banknote counter A of this invention. The top view of FIG. The left view of FIG. The right view of FIG. The rear view of FIG. The bottom view of FIG. The internal explanatory drawing of case 1 by the AA arrow of FIG. FIG. 6 is a plan view of another outer shape of the case 1. The bottom view of FIG. Explanatory drawing in the case of arrange | positioning the left impeller 3 and the right impeller 4 in two steps up and down.

Explanation of symbols

1: Case 2: Hopper 2a: Inclined line 2b: Inclined surface 3: Left impeller 3a: Blade 4: Right impeller 4a: Blade 5: Left stacker 6: Right stacker 7: Kick roller 8: Feed roller 8a: Separate roller 9: Transport path 10: Sensor unit 10a: Front sensor 10b: Intermediate sensor 10c: Rear sensor 11: Upper diverter 12: Lower diverter 13: Upper carry-out path 14: Reject box 15: Left carry-out path 16: Right carry-out path 17: Feed roller 18: Control board 19: Left diverter 20: Right diverter 21: Conveying path A: Bill counter B: Bill bundle b: Bill P, Q, R, S, T: Denomination

Claims (3)

A hopper for placing banknote bundles, a transport path for transporting banknotes kicked out of the hopper, a sensor unit arranged on the transport path for determining the authenticity and denomination of banknotes, and the determined command In a banknote counter consisting of a diverter for guiding to a final transport destination, an impeller for carrying out sorted banknotes, a stacker for stocking banknotes carried out by the impeller, and banknote counting means,
The banknote counter in which the said hopper has a V-shaped inclined surface which descends to the positioning end of one end along the longitudinal direction of a banknote.   The diverter comprises a plurality of upper and lower diverters, and an unloading path distributed by upper and lower required diverters is connected to left and right impellers for unloading bills to left and right stackers, respectively. 1 is a bill counter.   3. The bill counter according to claim 2, wherein the carry-out path sorted by the upper end diverter is communicated with the reject box.

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