JP2009230613A - Cash processing apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the occurrence of a failure such as jamming by suppressing bills from being input into an apparatus with rubber bands or clips remaining for binding the bills, which is not removed by an inexperienced cashier. <P>SOLUTION: The cash processing apparatus registers an ID of each manager who has authority to perform mechanical operations in the apparatus and information indicating whether the manager has a skill to recover from the failure or not in association with the information by manager, stores a manager registration table for registering information indicating the present manager in a storage part 7. When depositing cash carried by a cashier from the cash register, a main control part 8 determines whether the present manager is the main manager by referring to the manager registration table. When the present manager has no skill to recover from the failure, displays a warning screen showing a message so as not to input matters other than the cash into the apparatus on a display part 3. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a cash processing apparatus that performs cash processing, such as a cash withdrawal process for cash to be replenished in a register installed in a retail store or the like, and a cash deposit process for cash collected from a register.

As a conventional cash processing apparatus of this type, a withdrawal function for withdrawing cash for change (banknotes and coins) from a cash storage for change to a plurality of registers installed in a store such as a retail store, When the person in charge deposits the cash (banknotes and coins) collected from the register, the cash for the change is stored in the cash storage for change, and the cash for the sales is stored in the cash collection box. There has been proposed an apparatus having a function of storing and managing the amount of money deposited and withdrawn for each money processing, the number of money to be deposited and withdrawn for each denomination as a transaction history in a storage unit (for example, refer to Patent Document 1).
JP 2007-265154 A

However, the above-described conventional cash processing apparatus has the following problems.
That is, in this type of cash processing apparatus, the number of persons who have the authority to open the apparatus door and perform machine operations inside the apparatus is limited to a plurality of managers in the store where the cash processing apparatus is installed.
On the other hand, for example, when an apparatus user such as a cashier person carries a banknote from a register, the banknote may be bundled with a rubber band, a clip or the like in order to make it easy to carry the banknote. When depositing, a jam or the like may be caused by inserting the banknote into the banknote deposit / withdrawal port without removing the rubber band, clip, or the like bundled with the banknote.

In that case, there is no problem if there is an administrator with technology to recover the failure at the store, but if the administrator at the store does not have the technology to recover the failure when a failure occurs, the technology to recover the failure It is necessary to wait for the manager to have attendance or to request the management center that performs maintenance and inspection of the cash processing apparatus, and the recovery takes time.
For this reason, when performing deposit processing with a cash processing device, the user of each device is urged to remove the rubber bands and clips that are bundled with banknotes, but the effect does not readily improve, and repeated jams occur. There is a problem of doing.

  An object of the present invention is to solve such a problem.

  Therefore, the present invention provides a cash processing apparatus that performs cash processing such as cash withdrawal processing for change replenished in a register installed in a retail store or the like, and cash processing for cash collected from the register. Equipped with an operation unit, storage unit and control unit, opening the door of the cash processing device and identifying information of each administrator who has authority to operate the inside of the device and machine operation inside the device for each administrator An administrator registration table is registered in the storage unit for registering information indicating whether the administrator has the technology to perform or the administrator who does not have the technology to recover from failure, and registers the information indicating the current administrator. When the device user selects cash processing at the operation unit, the control unit refers to the administrator registration table and the current administrator is a manager who has the technology to recover the failure by operating the inside of the device. To judge For administrators who do not have a technique for fault recovery, and displaying a warning screen which arranged message warned not placed in the apparatus unwanted substances other than cash on the display unit.

  The present invention as described above can prevent a cashier who is unfamiliar with the operation from throwing banknotes into the apparatus without removing unnecessary items such as rubber bands and clips for bundling banknotes. The effect that the occurrence of failures can be reduced is obtained.

  Embodiments of a cash processing apparatus according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the embodiment.
The cash processing apparatus according to the present embodiment is installed in a retail store or the like that uses a register, and changes cash (banknotes and coins) to a plurality of registers installed in a retail store. Withdrawal function to withdraw from the storage, cashiers, etc., when depositing cash (banknotes and coins) collected from the register, cash for change is stored in the cash storage for change and cash for sales Has a depositing function stored in the cash collection store and a function for storing and managing the deposit and withdrawal amount for each deposit and withdrawal process and the number of deposits and withdrawals for each denomination as a transaction history in the storage unit, Therefore, it has the following configuration.

In FIG. 1, 1 is a banknote processing machine (cash processing machine) that performs banknote (cash) depositing / withdrawing processing, and 2 is a coin processing machine (cash processing machine) that performs depositing / withdrawing processing of coins (cash). The machine will be described in detail later.
Reference numeral 3 denotes a display unit such as an LCD, which displays various processing operation guidance, an input screen for cash processing and input information, and the amount of money deposited and withdrawn, the total amount of money deposited and withdrawn, and the like.

4 is an operation unit such as a keyboard or a touch panel arranged on the display unit 3 operated by a cashier in charge of depositing / withdrawing cash in the register or a store manager (device manager) who closes sales, etc. Execution instructions for processing, tightening processing, collection processing, etc., and the amount of money to be withdrawn can be key-inputted.
Reference numeral 5 denotes a card reader (reading means) having a function of reading information on an ID card (not shown) used by a cashier or store manager who is a user of the cash processing apparatus and an administrator of the cash processing apparatus. Yes.

The ID card is associated with a register, and the ID card for the cashier person in charge includes a user classification, a card number (identification information) for identifying the card, a cashier number (identification information) for identifying the register, and the like. It is recorded as card information.
This ID card for cashiers is prepared for each register or cashier, and if distributed to cashiers, if the cashier operates multiple registers, it corresponds to each register used. An attached ID card is given.

6 is a slip recording unit (printer) which records (prints) and outputs the amount of money, the number of money types, etc. of the deposit processing and withdrawal processing performed by the banknote processing machine 1 and the coin processing machine 2 in a slip. .
Reference numeral 7 denotes a storage unit. The storage unit 7 stores a control program executed by a main control unit, which will be described later, and each time a coin / banknote deposit / withdraw process is performed, the processing result is used as a deposit / withdrawal process history. In this embodiment, an administrator registration table is also stored in the storage unit 7.

This administrator registration table will be described later.
Reference numeral 8 denotes a main control unit that controls the cash processing apparatus as a whole based on a control program stored in the storage unit 7, and each time the deposit / withdrawal process is performed by the banknote processing machine 1 and the coin processing machine 2, the main control unit 8 is provided. Thus, the deposit / withdrawal processing history in the storage unit 7 is updated, and the main control unit 8 also has a function of displaying a warning to the cashier in charge based on the administrator registration table.

Next, the banknote handling machine 1 and the coin handling machine 2 will be described.
The banknote handling machine 1 accepts banknotes collected from a register at the time of deposit processing at the same time and ejects banknotes as a change at the time of withdrawal processing, and a banknote received at the banknote deposit / withdrawal port 1 A separation unit (not shown) that separates the sheets one by one, a banknote discrimination unit 12 that discriminates the denominations of banknotes and counts the banknotes identified for each denomination, and the banknotes that are discriminated and counted by the banknote discrimination unit 12 are accumulated. A banknote temporary storage unit 13 for temporarily holding, a plurality of change banknote storages 14 for storing banknotes of denominations (for example, 5,000 yen, 1,000 yen) used as a change reserve for a register, and payment A plurality of banknote collection boxes 15 for storing the sales proceeds of the banknotes by denomination, a banknote reject box 16, a transport path for transporting the banknotes sandwiched between them by a transport belt, and a storage unit (not shown) Stored control program And a bill processing machine 1 control unit 17 for overall operation control based on grams.

The banknote temporary storage unit 13 is provided with a feeding means for feeding out banknotes.
For each banknote storage 14 for change, a storage reference amount is set for each denomination of banknotes to be stored, and banknotes that have been deposited to store the storage reference amount are stored. Yes.
This change banknote storage 14 is provided with banknote stacking means together with feeding means for feeding banknotes to the transport path.

  On the other hand, the coin processor 2 includes a coin deposit port 21 that collectively receives the coins collected from the register, a separation unit (not shown) that separates the coins received in the coin deposit port 21 one by one, and the separated coins. As a coin discriminating unit 22 for discriminating denominations and the like, and counting the coins discriminated for each denomination, a coin temporary holding unit 23 for temporarily holding coins discriminated and counted by the coin discriminating unit 22, and a change for a register A coin storage box 24 for storing coins to be used according to denomination, a coin recovery box 25 for storing sales of the received coins by denomination, and a coin dispensing box for withdrawing coins for change. (Coin dispensing cassette) 26, a coin reject port 27, and a control unit 28 that controls the operation of the entire coin processor 2 based on a control program stored in a storage unit (not shown).

Here, the inside of the coin temporary storage unit 23, the coin storage box 24 for change, the coin collection box 25, and the coin dispensing box 26 is divided so that coins can be collected and stored for each denomination.
Further, a conveyance path such as a conveyance belt for conveying the coins separated by the separation unit is provided between the coin deposit port 21 and the coin discrimination unit 22, and a coin storage unit 24 for change, a coin recovery unit 25, Between the money box 26, the distribution means for guiding the coins fed from the coin storage box 24 for change to either the coin collection box 25 or the coin dispensing box 26, and the passing coins are counted for each denomination. Counting means are provided.

In addition, for each change coin storage 24, a storage reference amount is set for each denomination of the coins to be stored, and in order to keep the storage reference amount, the coins that have been deposited are stored. It has become. The change coin storage 24 is also provided with feeding means for feeding coins to the conveyance path.
Note that the control unit 17 of the banknote handling machine 1 and the control unit 28 of the coin handling machine 2 control the banknote handling machine 1 and the coin handling machine 2 according to instructions from the main control unit 8.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of the contents of the administrator registration table stored in the storage unit 7.
As shown in the figure, this administrator registration table is composed of areas of manager ID, manager type, management date, manager in charge, and each manager is assigned to the manager ID area. An ID (manager identification information) is registered, and information indicating whether or not the manager is the main manager is registered in the manager type area.

  Here, the main administrator is an administrator who has the authority to open the device door of the cash processing device and machine-operate the inside of the device, and has the technology to machine-operate the inside of the device and restore the failure. Information “1” is registered for the main administrator, and information “0” is registered for the administrator who is not the main administrator, that is, the administrator who does not have the technology to recover from the failure. It can be determined whether or not the user is an administrator.

In the management date, the latest date when the manager managed the cash processor is written, and in the area of the manager in charge, information indicating the manager who currently manages the cash processor is written. . The management date and the registered information of the manager in charge are information that is updated sequentially.
The operation of the above configuration will be described.
In the following description, descriptions of control by the main control unit 8 and the control units 18 and 28 are omitted except for necessary descriptions.

First, the registration process of the responsible manager will be described.
FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the registration processing procedure of the manager in charge, and will be described according to the steps indicated by S in the figure.
When an administrator inserts an ID card into a card insertion / extraction port provided in the cash processing apparatus at the start of work of the administrator (such as when the administrator changes), the card reader 5 identifies the user from the ID card, A card number (card No.) is read (S1).

Next, the administrator operates the operation unit 4 in accordance with the administrator ID and password input screen displayed on the display unit 3, and inputs his own administrator ID and password (S2).
The main control unit 8 compares the administrator ID and password input by the administrator with the administrator ID and password registered in the storage unit 7 or the like in advance, and if the validity is confirmed, the user read from the ID card A menu screen including an “administrator registration” process item that can be operated by the administrator based on the category is displayed on the display unit 3 (S3). When “manager registration” is selected, the main control unit 8 accepts the selection of “manager registration” (S4).

Then, the main control unit 8 collates the administrator ID input by the administrator with the administrator ID of the administrator registration table stored in the storage unit 7, and presents it in the area of the manager in charge corresponding to the corresponding administrator ID. The information indicating that it is a manager (○ shown in FIG. 2) is registered, the corresponding column of the management date area is updated, and the manager ID of the previous manager is updated. The information indicating that the administrator is registered in the corresponding manager area is deleted.
That is, the main control unit 8 updates the contents of the administrator registration table (S5).

In addition, the registration of the current manager is not only one person, for example, when the working hours of a plurality of managers overlap, it is also possible to register the managers as the current manager, In that case, it is only necessary to cause the manager to input the manager ID at the end of work, and to delete information indicating that the manager is registered in the manager's area corresponding to the manager ID at that time. .
Next, the deposit process when the cashier in charge deposits the cash collected from the register will be described.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the deposit processing procedure, which will be described according to the steps indicated by S in the figure.
When the cashier person who is the device user inserts the ID card into the card insertion / ejection slot provided in the cash processing device, the card reader 5 identifies the user classification, card number (card No), cashier number (from the ID card) Card information such as cash register No) is read (S11).

Subsequently, the cashier person operates the operation unit 4 according to the personal ID and password input screen displayed on the display unit 3 and inputs his / her personal ID and password (S12).
The main control unit 8 collates the personal ID and password input by the cashier person with the personal ID and password registered in the storage unit 7 or the like in advance, and when the validity is confirmed, the user classification read from the ID card A menu screen for selecting “withdrawal” and “deposit” that can be operated by the cashier person is displayed on the display unit 3 (S13), and the cashier person selects the menu screen.

  Here, when the cashier person operates the operation unit 4 to select “deposit”, the main control unit 8 accepts the selection of “deposit” (S14), and the management shown in FIG. The current administrator of the cash processing apparatus is confirmed by referring to the administrator registration area of the administrator registration table, and whether the current administrator is the main administrator from the information of the administrator type corresponding to the confirmed current administrator. It is determined whether or not (S15).

  If the current manager is the main manager, the process proceeds to the depositing process in S17. If the manager is not the main manager, the main control unit 8 removes unnecessary items such as rubber bands and clips for bundling banknotes and inserts the banknotes. A warning screen on which a warning message, that is, a warning message not to put an unnecessary object in the apparatus, is displayed on the display unit 3 for a certain period of time (S16), and at the same time, the same content as the message is output from a speaker (not shown).

Next, the main control unit 8 causes the banknote handling machine 1 and the coin handling machine 2 to perform a deposit process (S17).
That is, the banknote handling machine 1 and the coin handling machine 2 open the shutters provided at the banknote deposit / withdrawal port 11 and the coin deposit / withdrawal slot 21 according to the instruction of the main control unit 8, and the cashier in charge collects them from the register. The banknotes and coins, which are cash, are received, and the received banknotes and coins are conveyed to the banknote discrimination unit 12 and the coin discrimination unit 22 for discrimination and counting, respectively, and then temporarily stored in the banknote temporary storage unit 13 and coin temporary storage unit 23. Hold.

When all the accepted coins and banknotes are counted and temporarily held, the main control unit 8 displays the number and amount of each denomination and the total amount of all denominations on the display unit 3 as the counting result, and the amount of money is given to the cashier. To confirm whether or not storage is possible (OK / NG).
In the case of storing impossible (NG), the temporarily held banknote is returned from the banknote deposit / withdrawal port 11 and the coin is returned from the coin reject port 27 to the cashier. The banknotes and coins temporarily held in the holding unit 13 and the coin temporary holding unit 23 are the banknote collection box 15 and the coin collection box 25, the change banknote storage box 14, and the change coin storage box 24 as in the prior art (Patent Document 1). Sort and store.

  When the storage of coins and banknotes is completed, the main control unit 8 stores the serial number, cash register No., card No., user ID, classification, deposit amount, number of denominations, etc. in the deposit / withdrawal processing history of the storage unit 7 as the current processing result. It is written and updated (S18), and the slip recording unit 6 records the deposit processing result on a slip and issues it to the cashier. At the same time, the ID card is ejected from the card insertion / ejection slot and returned to the cashier (S19). ).

Note that the deposit / withdrawal processing history etc. may be updated after the voucher is issued.
According to the embodiment described above, the identification information of each administrator who manages the cash processing apparatus, and the administrator who has the technology to recover the fault by operating the inside of the apparatus for each administrator, or does not have the technique to recover the fault When registering information indicating whether it is an administrator and storing an administrator registration table for registering information indicating the current administrator in the storage unit, cashier carried by the cashier from the register when depositing The control unit refers to the administrator registration table to determine whether or not the current administrator is an administrator who has a technique for recovering a failure by operating the inside of the apparatus and In this case, since a warning screen with a message to warn against putting unnecessary items other than cash into the device is displayed on the display unit, a rubber band or clip that a cashier who is unfamiliar with the operation bundles banknotes Which unnecessary was without removing can be suppressed to be introduced, the effect is obtained that it makes it possible to reduce the occurrence of a failure such as a jam.

  In the above-described embodiment, the warning screen is displayed at the time of deposit processing, but the shutter provided at the bill deposit / withdrawal port 11 of the bill processing machine 1 is also opened at the time of deposit processing. Since it is considered that unnecessary items such as foreign matters may fall into the apparatus from the banknote deposit / withdrawal port 11 due to carelessness of the cashier in charge at the time, the same warning is performed in the same procedure as the above deposit processing at the time of withdrawal processing. A screen may be displayed on the display unit 3.

In addition, the following control can be performed.
For example, some skilled cashiers who are accustomed to operating a cash processing apparatus and do not cause troubles feel annoyed that a warning screen is displayed.
Therefore, a failure occurrence history table for registering a failure occurrence history for each cashier person in charge (device user) is stored in the storage unit 7 and a threshold value for failure occurrence is set in advance. When the current manager is an administrator who does not have the technology to recover the fault by operating the inside of the apparatus at the time of cash processing operation, the main control unit 8 refers to the fault occurrence history table, and the cashier's person in charge for the past certain period The failure occurrence frequency and the threshold value are compared, and a warning screen is displayed on the display unit 3 when the failure occurrence number is equal to or greater than the threshold value.

In this case, the cashier person can be identified by the personal ID input by the cashier person.
In this way, it is possible to prevent the warning screen from being displayed for a skilled cashier who does not cause a failure.

Block diagram showing the configuration of the embodiment Figure showing an example of the contents of the administrator registration table The flowchart which shows the registration processing procedure of the charge manager in the execution example The flowchart which shows the payment processing procedure of an Example

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Banknote processing machine 2 Coin processing machine 3 Display part 4 Operation part 5 Card reader 6 Slip recording part 7 Memory | storage part 8 Main control part 11 Banknote deposit / withdrawal port 12 Banknote discrimination part 13 Banknote temporary storage part 14 Banknote storage box 15 for change Collection box 16 Banknote reject box 17 Control unit 21 Coin deposit port 22 Coin identification unit 23 Coin temporary storage unit 24 Coin storage for change 25 Coin collection box 26 Coin dispensing box 27 Coin reject port 28 Control unit

Claims (3)

In a cash processing apparatus that performs cash processing such as cash withdrawal processing for cash to be replenished in a register installed in a retail store, etc., and cash deposit processing for cash collected from the register,
A display unit, an operation unit, a storage unit, a control unit,
Identification information of each administrator who has the authority to open the cash processing device and operate the inside of the device, and the administrator who has the technology to recover the failure by operating the inside of the device for each administrator An administrator registration table for registering information indicating the current manager and correspondingly registering information indicating whether the manager does not have an administrator, in the storage unit,
If the device user selects cash processing at the operation unit, the control unit refers to the administrator registration table and whether the current administrator is a manager who has the technology to recover the failure by operating the inside of the device In the case of an administrator who does not have the technology to recover from the failure, a warning screen on which a warning message is placed on the display unit so as not to put unnecessary items other than cash into the apparatus is displayed on the display unit. Cash processing device. The cash processing apparatus according to claim 1,
A failure occurrence history is stored in the storage unit as a failure occurrence history table for each device user, and a threshold for failure occurrence is set in advance.
At the time of cash processing operation by each device user, if the current administrator is an administrator who does not have the technology to recover the failure by operating the inside of the device, the control unit refers to the failure occurrence history table and uses the device A cash processing apparatus characterized in that a warning screen is displayed when a failure occurrence count is equal to or greater than a threshold value by comparing a failure occurrence count for a predetermined period of time and a threshold value. In the cash processing apparatus according to claim 1 or claim 2,
A cash processing apparatus, wherein information indicating a current manager is registered in the manager registration table based on identification information input by the manager through the operation unit when the manager starts work.

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