JP2009211653A - Bill processing apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a means for correcting bend of piled-up bills when they are bent before sealing them. <P>SOLUTION: In a step S3, bills are separated and fed one by one and are conveyed to a bill discrimination part through a conveyance path. In a step S4, bills are discriminated and are piled up per denomination. In a step S5, a control part counts bills conveyed to each piling-up part and positions the piled-up bills so that they are interposed between an upper plate part and a fixing plate, and photographs an image of the piled-up bills by a bill monitoring part. In a step S6, the control part analyzes the image of piled-up bills to recognize a bending state of the piled-up bills and clips the piled-up bills by lowering the upper plate part to press the piled-up bills and moves a bill clipping part toward a hand part base side to extract the piled-up bills. In a step S7, a bend correcting plate part of the upper plate part is moved to depress bend in accordance with the state of piled-up bills recognized in the step S6. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a banknote handling apparatus installed in a financial institution or the like, and particularly corrects the curvature of stacked banknotes to be sealed.

When a conventional banknote handling apparatus transports a sealed banknote bundle to a storage, the banknote bundle detection sensor detects a bundled state of banknote bundles and determines whether the detected state is within regulation. The banknote bundle which is detected and is out of regulation based on the detection result is conveyed and stored in a non-contained bill storage (see, for example, Patent Document 1).
Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 07-73353 (paragraph “0036”, FIG. 3)

  However, in the above-described conventional technique, the sealed banknote bundle is stored in a non-standard banknote storage, but both ends of the stacked banknotes before sealing are rolled up. Stacked banknotes with a curved upper surface, such as those that are raised or those with a raised central part, will be conveyed out of regulation if they can be corrected and pressed to seal and sealed. There is a problem that the bundled state is improved and even the banknote bundle within the regulation is conveyed to the non-payment storage, and the efficiency of the sealing process is deteriorated.

  An object of the present invention is to provide means for solving the above problems.

  In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides a transport path, a stacking section that stacks banknotes transported by the transport path, a sealing section that seals a fixed number of banknotes stacked in the stacking section, A banknote processing apparatus including a hand unit that sandwiches and transfers the banknotes stacked in the stacking unit to the sealing unit, and includes a banknote state recognition unit that recognizes the state of banknotes stacked in the stacking unit. The portion of the hand portion that holds the banknote is a fixed plate that receives the lower surface of the banknote, and a curvature correcting plate that is movable in the width direction of the banknote along the upper surface of the banknote and that can move toward and away from the fixed plate. The banknote state recognition part recognizes the raised part by the curve of the accumulated banknote, moves the curve correction plate to the raised part of the banknote, and presses the banknote.

  As a result, the present invention corrects the curvature of the banknote by moving and pressing the curvature correcting plate to a place that is curved from an image taken before sealing the accumulated banknote and is raised from other places. The effect that it is possible to prevent the bill bundle from being out of regulation and being sent to the banknote storage by being curved can be obtained.

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

FIG. 1 is an external view showing the banknote handling apparatus of the first embodiment, and FIG. 2 is an explanatory view showing the inside of the banknote handling apparatus of the first embodiment.
1 and 2, reference numeral 1 denotes a banknote processing apparatus.
Reference numeral 2 denotes a display operation unit, which is provided on the top of the housing of the banknote processing apparatus 1 and displays a processing selection screen on which various processing selection keys such as banknote sealing are arranged, an operation guidance screen, and the like. The function of receiving the contents of the key input on the process selection screen is provided.

Reference numeral 3 denotes a banknote receiving unit, which has a storage space for accumulating and storing banknotes, and accepts and stores banknotes inserted in a banknote insertion slot (not shown) provided in the housing of the banknote processing apparatus 1. To do.
The bill receiving unit 3 is provided with a bill press in the storage space, and is provided with a feeding roller arranged so that a part protrudes in the storage space, so that the bill press and the feeding roller constitute a separation mechanism. And it has a function which feeds a banknote to the conveyance path 4 by pressing the stored banknote with a bill press to a feeding roller, and rotating a feeding roller.

Reference numeral 4 denotes a conveyance path, which conveys the banknotes fed out from the banknote receiving unit 3 to each unit of the banknote processing apparatus 1. A plurality of blades are provided in the middle, and the conveyance direction of the banknotes is switched by moving the blades. It is like that.
In addition, a plurality of detection sensors such as optical sensors are provided at various locations on the transport path 4 to detect bills being transported by the detection sensors and to detect transport errors such as double feeding and transport jams.

Reference numeral 5 denotes a bill discriminating unit, which has a function of discriminating the authenticity, correctness, denomination, etc. of the bills being conveyed and counting the number of discriminated bills.
Reference numeral 6 denotes a banknote return unit, which accumulates banknotes to be returned, such as reject banknotes identified as counterfeit bills or unknown denominations by the banknote discrimination unit 5 or banknotes fed to the transport path 4 when a transport error occurs.
Reference numeral 7 denotes an open pocket, which is provided on the upper surface of the banknote handling apparatus 1 and accumulates banknotes of denominations not to be bound.

Reference numerals 8a to 8e denote stacking units, which are provided in the housing and arranged in a vertical row, and each stacks a predetermined number of banknotes of predetermined denominations. In this embodiment, the number is five, but it is needless to say that the number is not limited thereto.
Reference numeral 9 denotes a hand portion which is provided in the housing and moves in the vertical direction and the horizontal direction, and transfers bills such as withdrawal and delivery between the stacking portions 8a to 8e and the sealing portion 12. Has the function to perform.

Reference numeral 12 denotes a sealing unit, which has a function of picking up banknotes from the hand unit 9 and bundling the banknotes with a band for sealing with a paper tape or the like to make a banknote bundle.
FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating the banknote handling apparatus according to the first embodiment.
A control unit 13 controls the operation of each unit according to a control program stored in the storage unit 14.

Reference numeral 14 denotes a storage unit that stores the control program and the processing result of the control unit 13.
Reference numeral 15 denotes a bill monitoring unit, which has a function of photographing the stacked banknotes before sealing, which are extracted from the stacking units 8a to 8e by the hand unit 9, with a camera.
In addition, the control part 13 functions as a banknote state recognition part for recognizing the accumulation | stacking state of a stack | stuck banknote from the image image | photographed with the camera of the banknote monitoring part 15 with the control program by the control means and the memory | storage part 14. FIG.

Here, FIG. 4 is explanatory drawing which shows the structure of a hand part, (a) shows the top view, (b) has shown the side view.
In FIG. 4, reference numeral 20 denotes a hand base, which is fitted to a rail that guides movement in the vertical direction within the housing of the banknote processing apparatus 1, and moves vertically inside the housing by a motor (not shown). ing.

Reference numeral 22 denotes a bill clamping unit, which is connected to the hand unit base 20 via a movement support unit 23 that guides movement in the horizontal direction within the housing, and is moved horizontally by driving a motor or the like, that is, as shown in FIG. It moves to the stacking parts 8a to 8e side.
Moreover, the banknote clamping part 22 is arrange | positioned facing the lower part of the upper board part 25 as shown to Fig.4 (a), and the fixed board 26 which receives the lower surface of a banknote, and the upper surface of a banknote as shown in FIG.4 (b). And an upper plate portion 25 that moves in a direction toward and away from the small standard 26, is moved horizontally to the stacking portions 8a to 8e, and the upper plate portion 25 and the fixed plate 26 are stacked. The bills in the stacking portions 8a to 8e are clamped by entering the inside of 8a to 8e and causing the upper plate portion 25 to approach the fixed plate 26 in FIG.

In addition, the upper board part 25 is the banknote pressing board in the position contact | abutted in the center of the two curvature correction boards 25a in the position contact | abutted to the both ends of the banknote bundle upper surface shown in FIG.4 (b), and a banknote bundle upper surface. 25b, and the curvature correcting plate 25a is configured to move in a direction orthogonal to the plane of the bill.
The effect | action of the structure mentioned above is demonstrated according to the step shown by S using the flowchart which shows the sealing process of the banknote processing apparatus of Example 1 shown in FIG.

S1, the control unit 13 of the banknote processing apparatus 1 displays a processing selection screen on the display operation unit 2 and stands by. When the key for sealing processing for designating sealing of banknotes is pressed by an attendant, the application is performed. A condition setting screen on which an input field for setting sealing conditions such as the number of banknotes to be sealed (for example, 100) and denominations, a numeric keypad, and the like are arranged is displayed.
S <b> 2, the control unit 13 stores the sealing condition input by the customer in the storage unit 14, and arranges a bill conveyance start key together with a screen prompting the display operation unit 2 to insert the bill into the bill receiving unit 3. The bill insertion instruction screen is displayed.

In S3, when the control unit 13 recognizes the pressing of the start key, the banknotes inserted by the customer are separated and fed one by one by the separating mechanism, and the fed banknotes are transported to the banknote discriminating unit 5 through the transport path 4.
S4, the control part 13 discriminate | determines the banknote which carried out the denomination of the banknote and the authenticity conveyance by the banknote discrimination part 5, and denominated the banknote from which the denomination was confirmed to any one of stacking parts 8a-8e by the conveyance path 4. By conveying, it accumulates separately for each denomination.

In addition, the control part 13 is made to return a reject banknote to a customer by conveying the banknote discriminated from the reject banknote to the banknote return part 6 by the conveyance path 4. FIG.
S5, the control unit 13 counts the banknotes conveyed to the stacking units 8a to 8e by a sensor (not shown), and recognizes that the banknotes have been transported to the stacking unit 8a by the number of sealed sheets (for example, 100 sheets). 9 is moved to the side of the stacking part 8a by moving vertically, the banknote clamping part 22 is moved horizontally in the stacking part 8a, and the banknotes stacked between the upper plate part 25 and the fixed plate 26 (stacked banknotes). And the banknote monitoring unit 15 captures an image of the stacked banknotes.

S6, the control unit 13 recognizes the curved state of the stacked banknotes by analyzing the image of the stacked banknotes, and lowers the upper plate portion 25 to press the stacked banknotes, thereby sandwiching the stacked banknotes. The clamping part 22 is moved to the hand part base 20 side, and the stacked banknotes are extracted.
S7, the control unit 13 moves the curvature correcting plate portion 25a of the upper plate portion 25 according to the state of the stacked banknote recognized in step S6 so as to suppress the curvature.

Below, the state of correction of the curvature will be described according to the state of curvature of the stacked banknotes.
FIG. 6 is an explanatory view showing the stacked banknotes whose both ends are rolled up, and FIG. 7 is an explanatory view showing the operation of the curvature correcting plate when correcting the stacked banknotes whose both ends are rolled up.
As shown in FIG. 6, when both ends of the stacked banknotes are raised, that is, when the ends are raised compared to the center part, first, as shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. 7B, the curvature correcting plate 25a is lifted away from the upper surface of the stacked banknote and parallel to the banknote surface so as to approach the banknote pressing plate 25b. Move.

And as shown in FIG.7 (c), while curving the correction board 25a approached to the banknote pressing board 25b side, it lowers and pushes an accumulated banknote, It is made to move to the edge part of an accumulated banknote, and FIG.7 (a). To be in the state shown in.
In this way, even if the both ends of the stacked banknote are curled up, the curve correction plate 25a moves from the vicinity of the central part of the banknote toward the end while pressing the stacked banknote, so that the curve is moderated. Correct so that

Next, correction when the central portion of the stacked banknotes is raised will be described.
FIG. 8 is an explanatory view showing the stacked banknote with the central portion raised, and FIG. 9 is an explanatory view showing the operation of the curvature correcting plate when correcting the stacked banknote with the central portion raised.
When the central portion of the upper surface of the stacked banknotes is raised, as shown in FIG. 9A, the curvature correcting plate 25a of the upper plate portion 25 is positioned at a position where both end portions of the upper surface of the stacked banknote are pressed. As shown in (b), the curving correction plate 25a is moved toward the hand base 20 side while pressing the upper surface of the stacked banknote.

Next, as shown in FIG. 9 (c), the curving correction plate 25a is raised and moved to the stacked banknote side, and as shown in FIG. 9 (d), the curving correction plate 25a is moved a predetermined distance so as to approach the banknote pressing plate 25b. And is moved down so as to press the upper surface of the stacked banknotes.
At this time, the predetermined distance by which the curvature correcting plate 25a moves to the banknote pressing plate 25b side is set as about half the width of the curvature correcting plate 25a.

Then, the curving correction plate 25a is moved toward the hand base 20 while pressing the upper surface of the stacked banknote, and moved away from the fixed plate 26, that is, moved away from the stacked banknote, and further closer to the banknote pressing plate 25b. Move by a predetermined distance and press the upper surface of the stacked banknotes.
In this way, the upper surface of the stacked banknotes is pressed while gradually bringing the curvature correcting plate 25a closer to the banknote pressing plate 25b, and after approaching the banknote pressing plate 25b to a certain distance, the end of the upper surface of the stacked banknotes. The part is moved to the place where it is pressed to return to the state shown in FIG.

In this way, even if the central portion of the stacked banknotes is curved so that it rises, the stacked banknotes are pressed while gradually approaching the central portion of the stacked banknotes from the end of the stacked banknotes, Correct so that the curve becomes gentle.
S8, as described above, the control unit 13 moves the curving correction plate 25a in accordance with the state of the stacked banknotes to correct the curvature of the stacked banknotes, and the stacked banknotes sandwiched by the hand unit 9 to the sealing unit 12. Transport.

S9, the control unit 13 seals the stacked banknotes on the banknote bundle by the sealing unit 12, discharges them from a discharge port (not shown), and ends the banknote sealing process.
As described above, in this embodiment, the banknote monitoring camera captures the stacked banknotes held by the hand unit, and corrects the curvature by operating the curvature correcting plate according to the curved state of the top surface of the stacked banknote recognized from the image. Then, since the stacked banknotes are sealed, it is possible to prevent the banknote bundle from being stored together with the banknotes depending on the state despite the sealing.

  In the first embodiment, it has been described that the accumulated banknotes are photographed by the camera of the banknote monitoring unit and the image is analyzed to recognize the state of the accumulated banknotes. As shown in the explanatory diagram showing the case of detecting the height of the stacked banknotes, three infrared sensors or the like that detect the height of the central and both ends of the stacked banknotes may be provided in each stacking section. In that case, the sensor is disposed so as to face the hand unit that removes the stacked banknotes from the stacking unit, and the height thereof is higher than the upper surface of the banknotes that have been stacked by a predetermined number.

  By doing in this way, when both ends are rolled up as shown in FIG. 10 (a), only the sensor that detects the height of both ends detects the banknote, and as shown in FIG. 10 (b). When the central portion is raised, only the sensor for detecting the height of the central portion detects the banknote, so the banknote processing device is configured at a lower cost than recognizing the state of the banknote by the camera of the banknote monitoring unit. be able to.

External view showing the banknote handling machine of Example 1 Explanatory drawing which shows the inside of the banknote processing apparatus of Example 1. The block diagram which shows the banknote processing apparatus of Example 1. Explanatory drawing showing the configuration of the hand unit The flowchart which shows the sealing process of the banknote processing apparatus of Example 1. Explanatory drawing which shows the accumulated banknote in which both ends are curled up Explanatory drawing which shows operation | movement of the curvature correction board in the case of correcting the accumulated banknote which both ends rolled up Explanatory drawing which shows the accumulation banknote which the center raised Explanatory drawing which shows operation | movement of the curvature correction board in the case of correcting the accumulated banknote which the center raised. Explanatory drawing which shows the case where the height of the accumulated banknote by a sensor is detected

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Banknote processing apparatus 2 Display operation part 3 Banknote receiving part 4 Conveyance path 5 Banknote discrimination part 6 Banknote return part 7 Open pocket 8a-8e Accumulation part 9 Hand part 12 Sealing part 13 Control part 14 Storage part 15 Banknote monitoring part 20 Hand Part base part 22 Banknote clamping part 25 Upper board part 25a Curvature correction board 25b Banknote pressure board 26 Fixed board

Claims (3)

A conveying path, a stacking unit that stacks banknotes transported by the transporting path, a sealing unit that seals a fixed number of banknotes stacked in the stacking unit, and a banknote stacked in the stacking unit A banknote handling apparatus comprising a hand part for transfer to the sealing part,
A banknote state recognition unit for recognizing the state of banknotes stacked in the stacking unit;
The portion of the hand portion that holds the banknote includes a fixing plate that receives the lower surface of the banknote, a curve correction plate that is movable in the width direction of the banknote along the upper surface of the banknote, and that can be moved toward and away from the fixing plate. Consists of
The banknote processing apparatus characterized by recognizing a raised part due to the curving of the accumulated banknotes by the banknote state recognition unit, moving the curving correction plate to a raised part of the banknote, and pressing the banknote. The banknote processing apparatus according to claim 1,
When the end portion of the accumulated banknotes is raised, the curvature correcting plate is positioned on the central portion side of the accumulated banknote, the banknote is pressed, and the curvature correcting plate is moved toward the end portion as it is. A banknote processing apparatus. The banknote processing apparatus according to claim 1,
When the central part of the accumulated banknotes is raised, the curvature correcting plate is positioned on the edge side of the banknote, pressed against the banknote, and moved away from the fixed board to move away from the banknote. The banknote is characterized in that the banknote is pressed while being gradually moved closer to the central part of the banknote by moving the central part side by a predetermined distance and pressing the banknote again at the moved position. Processing equipment.

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