JP2013109382A - Paper sheet processor and paper sheet processing method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently process reception and delivery of paper sheets including defective paper sheets such as damaged paper sheets.SOLUTION: A paper sheet processor 10 which deals with a plurality of types of paper sheets determines, on the basis of the discrimination result of a discrimination part, whether paper sheets are rejected paper sheets, or abnormal paper sheets whose paper sheet state level exceeds a predetermined reference level, or normal paper sheets whose paper sheet state level does not exceed the predetermined reference level, and when accepting the paper sheets, stores the rejected paper sheets in a reject collection part, and stores the abnormal paper sheets and the normal paper sheets in a paper sheet storage part, and when delivering the paper sheets, stores the abnormal paper sheets stored in the paper sheet storage part in a temporary holding part, and delivers the normal paper sheets stored in the paper sheet storage part, and then restores the abnormal paper sheets stored in the temporary holding part in the paper sheet storage part.

Description

  The present invention relates to a paper sheet processing apparatus and a paper sheet processing method, and is preferably applied to a paper sheet processing apparatus and a paper sheet processing method for performing predetermined transaction processing in response to a user's operation input. is there.

  In general, an automatic transaction apparatus such as an automatic deposit machine (ATM) or an automatic change machine installed in a financial institution or the like includes a paper sheet processing device for processing paper sheets such as banknotes. It is determined whether or not the paper sheet is normal. Below, among the processes of paper sheets, the determination process in the case of a banknote deposit process or a withdrawal process will be described as an example.

  At the time of deposit processing and withdrawal processing of banknotes, it is determined whether the banknote is a normal banknote, a reject banknote, or a banknote, and the banknote is stored in an appropriate storage unit according to the determination result. Here, the banknotes that are badly damaged, broken, or folded and that cause trouble to the device, banknotes that the customer may feel uncomfortable (dirty banknotes, torn banknotes, folded banknotes), etc. Means. Rejected banknotes mean banknotes whose denomination cannot be determined, banknotes whose number of sheets cannot be determined, or abnormal banknotes that are highly likely to obstruct the device when the banknotes are skewed or knitted. To do.

  For example, at the time of deposit processing, the banknotes deposited in the automatic transaction apparatus are identified, the reject banknotes are returned to the customer, and the banknotes are confirmed as deposited banknotes and temporarily held. And the banknote temporarily hold | maintained is further discriminated, a rejection banknote is accommodated in the rejection collection | recovery part for holding a rejection banknote, and a bad ticket is also accommodated in this rejection collection | recovery part. On the other hand, at the time of the withdrawal process, the withdrawal banknotes fed out from the banknote storage unit that stores normal banknotes are identified, the normal banknotes are discharged to the customer, and both reject banknotes and banknotes are stored in the reject collection unit.

  In this way, in the paper sheet processing apparatus, reject banknotes and damaged bills appearing during storage and transport of banknotes, and reject banknotes and slippers appearing during banknote withdrawal and transport are stored in the reject collection unit. If the reject collection unit is full of reject banknotes and banknotes, it will not be possible to continue the deposit or withdrawal process. Work such as to do is necessary.

  Therefore, Patent Document 1 discloses a technique for preventing the reject collection unit from becoming full before the scrutiny process. Here, the scrutinization process is a process in which the paper sheets stored in each paper sheet of the paper sheet processing apparatus are identified and the remaining amount is counted for each paper sheet. The banknotes in the bank and banknote storage section are emptied by the attendant. Specifically, Patent Document 1 discloses a technique for restricting deposit of a non-performing ticket to an automatic transaction apparatus when it is predicted that a reject collection unit will be full. Further, Patent Document 2 discloses a technique for preventing operation within a scrutiny period from being stopped even when a reject collection unit is full. Specifically, in Patent Document 2, transaction processing is performed by storing a banknote determined to be defective or a preset banknote (such as 2,000 yen) in one of the denomination storage boxes when the reject collection unit is full. Is not stopped.

JP-A-62-75790 JP 2002-8096 A

  However, in the above-mentioned Patent Document 1, the receipt of deposits becomes worse as the reject collection unit approaches full, making the customer feel untrustworthy with respect to the bill transaction processing apparatus, and the customer again throwing in bills that have not been accepted. This increases the failure rate when depositing. Further, in Patent Document 2, when the reject collection unit is full, the banknote storage unit stores the banknotes so as not to stop the operation of the banknote transaction processing device. Since there is no money, there was a problem that the withdrawal efficiency deteriorated.

  The present invention has been made in consideration of the above points, and is a paper sheet processing apparatus and paper sheets that can efficiently process the reception and delivery of paper sheets including defective paper sheets such as non-conforming paper. We are going to propose a processing method.

  In order to solve such a problem, in the present invention, a paper sheet processing apparatus that handles a plurality of types of paper sheets, one or more paper sheet storage units that store paper sheets by type, and paper A discriminating unit for discriminating the state level of leaves, a reject collecting unit for storing rejected paper sheets determined to be indistinguishable by the discrimination unit, a temporary holding unit for temporarily retracting the papers, and A control unit that controls acceptance or feeding of the paper sheet based on the result of discrimination of the paper sheet by the discrimination unit, and the control unit is configured to control the paper sheet based on the discrimination result of the discrimination unit. Determining whether the paper sheet is a reject paper sheet, an abnormal paper sheet whose state level exceeds a predetermined reference level, or a normal paper sheet that does not exceed the predetermined reference level, When accepting paper sheets, the reject paper sheets Storing the abnormal paper sheets and the normal paper sheets in the paper sheet storage section, and storing the abnormal paper sheets stored in the paper sheet storage section when the paper sheets are delivered; The paper sheets are stored in the temporary storage unit, and the abnormal paper sheets stored in the temporary storage unit after feeding out the normal paper sheets stored in the paper sheet storage unit are stored in the paper sheets. A paper sheet processing apparatus is provided, which is stored in the unit again.

  According to this configuration, when the paper sheet is an abnormal paper sheet, the paper sheet is stored in the paper sheet storage unit and the paper sheet stored in the paper sheet storage unit is fed out in the same manner as the normal paper sheet. At this time, the abnormal paper sheets are temporarily evacuated to the temporary storage unit, and after the normal paper sheets are fed out from the paper sheet storage unit, the abnormal paper sheets are returned to the paper sheet storage unit. As a result, in addition to rejected banknotes, abnormal paper sheets such as non-performing bills can be stored in the reject recovery unit to prevent the reject recovery unit from becoming full, while storing paper sheets that store abnormal paper sheets Since feeding processing from the apparatus can also be performed, it is possible to prevent paper sheets from being received and feeding efficiency from deteriorating.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to efficiently process the receipt and delivery of paper sheets including defective paper sheets such as slips.

It is a perspective view which shows the external appearance of the front surface of the automatic transaction apparatus which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a perspective view which shows the external appearance of the rear surface of the automatic transaction apparatus concerning the embodiment. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the automatic transaction apparatus concerning the embodiment. It is a conceptual diagram which shows the threshold value of a slip and the content of a slip data area concerning the embodiment. It is a block diagram which shows the internal structure of the banknote processing apparatus concerning the embodiment. It is a conceptual diagram explaining the threshold value of the banknote concerning the embodiment. It is a conceptual diagram explaining the threshold value of the banknote concerning the embodiment. It is a conceptual diagram explaining the outline | summary of the storage process of the banknote concerning the embodiment. It is a conceptual diagram explaining the outline | summary of the payment processing of the banknote concerning the embodiment. It is a conceptual diagram explaining the outline | summary of the storage process of the banknote concerning the embodiment. It is a conceptual diagram explaining the outline | summary of the collection process of the banknote concerning the embodiment. It is a conceptual diagram explaining the outline | summary of the conveyance process of the banknote concerning the embodiment. It is a flowchart which shows the detail of the damage ticket collection | recovery determination process concerning the embodiment. It is a block diagram which shows the internal structure of the banknote processing apparatus which concerns on the 2nd Embodiment of this invention. It is a conceptual diagram explaining the outline | summary of the storage process of the banknote concerning the embodiment. It is a conceptual diagram explaining the outline | summary of the payment processing of the banknote concerning the embodiment. It is a conceptual diagram explaining the outline | summary of the payment process which concerns on the 3rd Embodiment of this invention. It is a conceptual diagram which shows the operation setting selection screen concerning the embodiment.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

(1) First Embodiment (1-1) Appearance Configuration of Automatic Transaction Device In this embodiment, an automatic transaction device provided with a paper sheet processing device according to the present invention will be described as an example. First, the external configuration of the automatic transaction apparatus 1 will be described. The automatic transaction apparatus 1 is an apparatus that handles paper sheets and coins. The automatic transaction apparatus 1 mainly includes a paper sheet processing apparatus 10 that handles paper sheets and a coin processing apparatus 12 that handles coins. Has been. Examples of paper sheets include cash vouchers such as banknotes and gift certificates. In the following, since a banknote is illustrated and described as a paper sheet, the banknote processing apparatus will be described as an example of the paper sheet processing apparatus.

  FIG. 1 shows the external appearance of the front face of the automatic transaction apparatus 1. As shown in FIG. 1, the automatic transaction apparatus 1 mainly includes a bill deposit / withdrawal port 2, a card insertion port 6, a statement slip outlet 7, and a customer operation unit 8.

  FIG. 2 shows the appearance of the rear surface of the automatic transaction apparatus 1. As shown in FIG. 2, the automatic transaction apparatus 1 includes a banknote processing device 10, a coin processing device 12, and an attendant operation unit 9. The banknote handling apparatus 10 is an apparatus that takes in, identifies, transports, or pays out banknotes. The coin processing device 12 is a device that identifies, conveys, and discharges coins. The clerk operation unit 9 serves as both an operation unit and a display unit. For example, the clerk operation unit 9 performs an instruction operation to start bill loading processing or scrutinization processing by the clerk. Here, before the operation of the automatic transaction apparatus is started with the loading of banknotes, a cassette in which banknotes are hand-packed in advance by an attendant or the like is installed in the banknote processing apparatus, and identification and counting of the banknotes are performed. This means that each bill is stored in an appropriate cassette. Further, the close examination of the remaining amount of banknotes means that when the operation of the automatic transaction apparatus is terminated, the banknotes stored for each banknote of the banknote processing apparatus are identified and the remaining amount is counted for each banknote. .

(1-2) Configuration of Banknote Processing Device (1-2-1) Hardware Configuration and Software Configuration of Banknote Processing Device Next, the configuration of the banknote processing device 10 will be described. As shown in FIG. 3, the automatic transaction apparatus 1 is provided with the banknote processing apparatus 10 and a high-order control unit inside. The banknote handling apparatus 10 includes a banknote handling unit control unit 30 and a discrimination unit 40.

  The host control unit 20 gives an operation instruction to the banknote processing unit control unit 30 in response to an input from the clerk via the clerk operation unit 9.

The banknote processing unit control unit 30 mainly includes a CPU 11 (Central Processing Unit), a ROM 12, a RAM 13, a host communication I / O 14, a transport mechanism I / O 15, and a discrimination unit communication I / O 16. The CPU 11 includes a ROM (Read Only Memory) 12 and a RAM (Random Access).
Various processes of the banknote processing apparatus 10 are controlled in accordance with various programs stored in a memory such as “Memory” 13. Various control programs are stored in the ROM 12. The RAM 13 is a memory for executing various control programs, and stores various data used by the control programs. The host communication I / O 14 receives various commands from the banknote processing device 10 and the host control unit 20. The transport mechanism I / O 15 includes a main motor 151, a transport monitoring sensor 152, and a sorting flapper for executing banknote transport control. The discrimination unit communication I / O 16 receives the identification result of the banknote being conveyed.

  The identification unit 40 notifies the banknote processing unit control unit 30 of the result of identifying the banknote.

  A program stored in the ROM 12 will be described. The program logic 120 of the ROM 12 includes a withdrawal transport unit 121, a banknote transport unit 122, a damaged ticket data area management unit 123, and a reject collection management unit 124.

  When the banknotes are withdrawn and transported, the withdrawal transport unit 121 designates the withdrawal banknotes by comparing with the threshold value 131 of the banknote stored in the RAM 12 based on the determination result determined by the discrimination unit 40. Transport to the transported destination. When the banknote transport unit 122 stores and transports banknotes, the banknotes are transported designated by comparing the stored banknotes with the threshold value 131 of the banknote stored in the RAM 12 based on the determination result determined by the discrimination unit 40. Transport first. The non-use ticket data area management unit 123 updates or refers to the non-use ticket data area 134 stored in the RAM 12. The reject collection management unit 124 refers to the operation information 133 and the number of reject collection units 132 stored in the RAM 12, and compares the current amount of banknotes in the reject collection unit with a preset reference amount of the reject collection unit. To determine whether there is room in the reject collection unit.

  The RAM 13 stores data such as a slip ticket threshold 131, a reject collection number 132, operation information 133 including information such as a scrutiny period and a current date and time, and a slip data area 134. Here, the examination period means a period between the examination process and the examination process.

  Here, with reference to FIG. 4, the threshold value 131 and the non-performing ticket data area 134 will be described. The threshold value 131 of the non-performing ticket is a threshold value of a non-performing ticket level for determining whether or not a banknote is used as a non-performing banknote. For example, as shown in FIG. When “01” is set, the banknote is identified as a slippery when the level of the slippery of the outer shape is 01 or more or the level of the slippery of dirt is 01 or more. Further, as shown in FIG. 4, the banknote storage area stores the banknote level of each banknote stored in the banknote storage section in the banknote storage area 134. For example, for the bill corresponding to “the first data from the payout mechanism”, the outer shape level is “02” and the dirt level is “00”. In this case, the first banknote from the feeding mechanism means that the discrimination unit 40 has identified the outer shape level as 02 and the dirt level as 00. As described above, the withdrawal transport unit 121 and the banknote transport unit 122 determine the banknote level of each banknote stored in the banknote storage area 134 and the banknote level of the banknote threshold 131. In comparison, it is determined whether or not each banknote is a non-performing bill.

(1-2-2) Internal Configuration of Banknote Processing Device Next, the internal configuration of the banknote processing device 10 will be described with reference to FIG. As shown in FIG. 5, the banknote processing apparatus 10 includes a deposit / withdrawal port 51, a discrimination unit 52, a temporary storage unit 53, a return storage unit 54, a reject collection unit 55, and banknote storage units 56 </ b> A, 56 </ b> B, 56 </ b> C, 56 </ b> D. , A loaded / collected banknote storage unit 58, a loaded / collected reject unit 59 and a transport path 60. The loaded / collected banknote storage unit 58 and the loaded / collected reject unit 59 are provided in a loaded / recovered box 57 that is detachable from the banknote processing apparatus 10. Note that the bill storage units 56A, 56B, 56C, and 56D may be simply referred to as the bill storage unit 56 because they have the same configuration. In the discrimination unit 40, the denomination is identified together with the banknote level of the banknote, and stored in the banknote storage sections 56A to 56D for each type. For example, a thousand yen banknote may be stored in the banknote storage unit 56A, a 5,000 yen banknote may be stored in the banknote storage unit 56B, a 10,000 yen banknote may be stored in the banknote storage unit 56C, and any banknote may be stored in the banknote storage unit 56D. .

  In this Embodiment, in the banknote processing apparatus 10 which has the said structure, it rejects by storing in the banknote storage part 56 instead of the rejection collection | recovery part 55 the banknote which generate | occur | produces at the time of storage and conveyance of a banknote. The collection unit 55 is prevented from becoming full. Moreover, when the ratio of the banknote accommodated in the banknote storage part 56 increases, the efficiency of the payment process at the time of banknote payment is improved by returning a banknote to the rejection collection | recovery part 55.

  As described above, it is determined by comparing the discrimination result by the discrimination unit 40 with the banknote threshold set in the banknote handling apparatus 10 when the banknote is withdrawn or stored. The threshold value is generally a fixed value, but may be changed according to the amount of banknotes in the reject collection unit 55. For example, in FIG. 6, the amount of banknotes in the reject collection unit 55 is associated with the threshold value of the damaged bill. Specifically, when the amount of banknotes in the reject collection unit 55 is one third from the sky, the threshold value of the banknote is set to Low (the banknote level is loose). Further, when the amount of banknotes in the reject collection unit 55 is from one third to two thirds, the threshold value of the damage ticket is set to Middle (the damage ticket level is intermediate). Further, when the amount of banknotes in the reject collection unit 55 is from two-thirds to full, the threshold of the banknote is set to High (the banknote level is severe).

  As described above, in the present embodiment, the banknotes are stored in the banknote storage unit 56, so that the ratio of the banknotes in the banknote storage unit 56 increases at the end of the scrutiny period. Therefore, when the withdrawal process is performed, the rate at which normal banknotes are released from the banknote storage unit 56 is reduced, and when the withdrawal takes time, the reject collection unit 55 collects the damaged bills. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 7, when there is a surplus capacity in the reject collection unit 55, the banknotes stored in the banknote storage unit 56 are collected in the reject collection unit 55, and the withdrawal process is performed. The withdrawal efficiency is improved. As described above, in this embodiment, the rejection collection unit 55 is prevented from being filled and the dropout efficiency due to the banknote is prevented without lowering the acceptance rate at the time of deposit.

(1-3) Operation of bill processing device Next, each processing of bills in bill processing device 10 is explained with reference to Drawings 8-12.

(1-3-1) Overview of Storage Processing First, an overview of banknote storage processing will be described with reference to FIG. When the banknote handling apparatus 10 receives a banknote storage instruction from the host control unit 21, the banknote handling apparatus 10 feeds the banknotes that are inserted into the deposit / withdrawal port 51 and temporarily held in the temporary storage unit 53 one by one, and the discrimination unit 52. Transport to. And the banknote processing apparatus 10 compares the discrimination result by the discrimination part 52 with the threshold value 131 of a damaged bill, and determines whether the said banknote is a normal banknote, a damaged banknote, or a reject banknote. As a result of the determination, when it is determined that the banknote is a normal banknote, the banknote is stored in the banknote storage unit 56 assigned to each denomination of the banknote. As a result of the determination, if it is determined that the banknote is a banknote, the banknote is stored in the banknote storage unit 56 assigned to each denomination in the same manner as a normal banknote. If it is determined as a reject banknote as a result of the determination, the banknote is stored in the reject collection unit 55. Thus, the banknote determined to be a non-performing bill at the time of deposit processing is stored in the banknote storage unit 56 for each denomination in the same manner as a normal banknote.

(1-3-2) Outline of Withdrawal Process Next, an outline of the banknote withdrawal process will be described with reference to FIG. When the banknote handling apparatus 10 receives a banknote withdrawal instruction from the host control unit 21, the banknote handling apparatus 10 delivers the designated number of banknotes one by one from the banknote storage unit 56 corresponding to the designated denomination to the discrimination unit 52. Transport. And the banknote processing apparatus 10 compares the discrimination result by the discrimination part 52 with the threshold value 131 of a damaged bill, and determines whether the said banknote is a normal banknote, a damaged banknote, or a reject banknote. As a result of the determination, when it is determined that the bill is a normal bill, the bill is conveyed to the deposit / withdrawal port 51. Further, when it is determined as a result of the determination that the banknote is a banknote, the banknote is stored in the temporary storage unit 53. If it is determined as a reject banknote as a result of the determination, the banknote is stored in the reject collection unit 55. As described above, at the time of the withdrawal process, the banknotes stored in the banknote storage unit 56 can be temporarily retracted, and only normal banknotes can be withdrawn from the deposit / withdrawal port 51.

(1-3-3) Outline of Storage Process After Withdrawing Next, an outline of the storage process after the banknote has been dispensed will be described with reference to FIG. As described above, the banknote determined to be a banknote during the banknote withdrawal process is temporarily stored in the temporary storage unit 53. The banknote processing apparatus 10 pays out banknotes one by one from the temporary storage unit 53 after completion of the withdrawal process, and conveys the banknotes to the discrimination unit 52. And the banknote processing apparatus 10 discriminate | determines which denomination is a denomination based on the discrimination result by the discrimination part 52, and accommodates the said banknote in the banknote accommodating part 56 allocated for every denomination. Further, when it is determined that the banknote drawn out from the temporary storage unit 53 is a reject banknote, the banknote is stored in the reject collection unit 55. In this way, it is possible to prevent the reject collection unit 55 from becoming full by storing the banknote temporarily retracted during the withdrawal process in the banknote storage unit 56 again.

(1-3-4) Summary of Rejected Bill Reject Collection Processing Next, with reference to FIG. 11, a process for collecting the damaged bills stored in the banknote storage unit 56 in the reject collection unit 55 will be described. As described above, in the present embodiment, at the end of the scrutiny period, when the proportion of the banknotes in the banknote storage unit 56 increases and the free space of the reject collection unit 55 has a margin, the banknote storage unit 56 The stored slips are collected in the reject collection unit 55. The process for determining whether or not the rejected bill stored in the bill storage unit 56 is collected in the reject collection unit 55 will be described in detail later. When it determines with the banknote processing apparatus 10 collect | recovering the loss banknote of the banknote storage part 56 in the rejection collection | recovery part 55, it pays out the banknote of the designated number one by one from the banknote storage part designated at the time of determination, and conveys it to the discrimination part 52 To do. And the banknote processing apparatus 10 compares the discrimination result by the discrimination part 52 with the threshold value 131 of a damaged bill, and determines whether the said banknote is a normal banknote, a damaged banknote, or a reject banknote. As a result of the determination, when it is determined that the banknote is normal, the banknote is conveyed to the temporary storage unit 53. Further, when it is determined as a result of the determination that the banknote is a banknote, the banknote is stored in the reject collection unit 55. If it is determined as a reject banknote as a result of the determination, the banknote is stored in the reject collection unit 55. As described above, among the banknotes stored in the banknote storage unit 56, the banknotes stored in the banknote storage unit 56 can be recovered in the reject recovery unit 55 while retracting normal banknotes.

(1-3-5) Overview of processing for transporting normal banknotes after recovering rejected banknotes Next, referring to FIG. 12, after recovering the banknotes stored in the banknote storage section 56 to the reject recovery section 55. The normal banknote transport process will be described. The banknote handling apparatus 10 feeds out normal banknotes temporarily stored in the temporary storage unit 53 one by one when the banknote storage unit 56 collects the damaged banknotes in the reject collection unit 55 and conveys them to the discrimination unit 52. And the banknote processing apparatus 10 compares with the discrimination result by the discrimination part 52, and the threshold value 131 of a damaged ticket, and determines whether the said banknote is a normal banknote or a reject banknote. As a result of the determination, when it is determined that the banknote is a normal banknote, the banknote is stored in the banknote storage unit 56 assigned to each denomination of the banknote. If it is determined as a reject banknote as a result of the determination, the banknote is stored in the reject collection unit 55. In this way, normal banknotes can be stored in the original banknote storage unit 56 after the rejected banknotes are rejected and recovered.

(1-3-6) Details of Damaged Ticket Recovery Determination Process Next, details of the damaged ticket recovery determination process for determining whether or not to recover the damaged ticket stored in the banknote storage part 56 to the reject recovery part 55. explain. In the following description, the processing entities of various processes are described as being included in the program logic 120, but it goes without saying that the CPU 11 of the banknote processing apparatus 10 actually executes the processes based on each part of the program logic 120. Yes. The rejected ticket collection determination process described below is executed by the reject collection management unit 124 of the program logic 120.

  As shown in FIG. 13, the reject collection management unit 124 acquires the non-use ticket data in the non-use ticket data area 134 of each storage unit, the non-use ticket threshold 131 and the operation information 133 stored in the RAM 13 (S101). ).

  Next, the reject collection management unit 124 determines whether there is a large number of non-performing tickets in a certain number in the banknote storage unit 56 based on the non-use ticket data acquired in step S101 and the non-use threshold information (S102). ). Here, as shown in FIG. 7, the maximum number of withdrawals from the banknote storage unit 56 is X, and the number of banknotes occupying 2X sheets from the top banknote stored in the banknote storage unit 56. Is Y. In addition, the banknote storage capacity of the reject collection unit 55 is A, and the banknote storage amount is Z. Further, the scrutiny period is B hours, and the current operation time within the scrutiny period is C hours.

  In step S <b> 102, the reject collection management unit 124 refers to the non-payment ticket data area 134 after the completion of processing such as deposit processing and withdrawal processing, and dispenses a normal banknote corresponding to the maximum number of withdrawals X. The total number of normal banknotes and non-performing bills that need to be fed out from the banknote storage unit 56 is calculated. Then, it is determined whether or not there are a lot of banknotes in the banknote storage unit 56 on the basis of the ratio of the banknotes that occupy the total number of normal banknotes and banknotes fed out from the banknote storage unit 56. For example, the reject collection management unit 124 determines that there are many defective tickets when the following expression is satisfied.

(Equation 1)
Y ≧ X (1)
That is, it is determined that there are a large number of non-issued tickets when the number Y of non-issued tickets in 2X from the top banknote stored in the banknote storage unit 56 is equal to or more than the maximum number X of withdrawals.

  If it is determined in step S102 that there are many non-performing tickets, the reject collection manager 124 determines whether there is a margin in the bill capacity of the reject collection unit 55 (S103). On the other hand, if it is determined in step S102 that the number of damaged tickets is small, the reject collection management unit 124 ends the process.

  In step S <b> 103, the reject collection management unit 124 specifically calculates the actual operating time from the previous scrutiny process to the present, and calculates the assumed banknote amount as a reference based on the actual operating time. And the banknote amount of the present rejection collection | recovery part 55 with respect to assumption banknote amount is compared, and it is determined whether the rejection collection | recovery part 55 has a margin. For example, the reject collection management unit 124 determines that the reject collection unit 55 has a margin when the following expression is satisfied.

(Equation 2)
(A × C / B) −Z ≧ X (2)
In the mathematical formula (2), first, by calculating (A × C / B), an assumed banknote amount serving as a reference is calculated based on the actual operation time with respect to the scrutiny period. Then, the number Z of banknotes actually stored in the reject collection unit 55 is subtracted from the assumed banknote amount, and the subtracted value is used as the free capacity of the reject collection unit 55. Then, the calculated free capacity of the reject collection unit 55 is compared with the maximum withdrawal number X, and when the free capacity of the reject collection unit 55 is larger than the maximum withdrawal number X, the rejection collection unit 55 has a margin. judge.

  In step S103, when it is determined that there is room in the reject collection unit 55, the banknote processing unit control unit 30 notifies the host control unit 21, and the host control unit 21 does not generate a transaction for a certain period of time. The system waits until the business end time (S104).

  Then, after waiting in step S104, based on the operation instruction from the upper control unit 21, the reject collection management unit 124 collects the banknotes stored in the banknote storage unit 56 in the reject collection unit 55 (S105). The recovery process of the non-performing bill to the reject recovery unit 55 in step S105 is realized by the method shown in FIGS.

(1-4) Effects of the present embodiment As described above, in the present embodiment, when the banknote is a non-performing paper (abnormal paper sheet), the banknote is the same as the normal banknote (normal paper sheet). When storing paper in the storage unit (paper sheet storage unit) 56 and withdrawing paper sheets stored in the banknote storage unit 56, the banknotes are temporarily stored in the temporary storage unit 53 to store normal banknotes. After paying out from the bank, the banknote is returned to the banknote storage unit 56. As a result, in addition to rejected banknotes, abnormal paper sheets such as banknotes are stored in the reject recovery unit to prevent the reject recovery unit from becoming full, and from the banknote storage unit 56 storing the banknotes. Since the payout process can also be performed, it is possible to prevent the depositing and dispensing efficiency of banknotes from being deteriorated.

(2) Second Embodiment (2-1) Appearance Configuration and Hardware Configuration of Automatic Transaction Device The external configuration of automatic transaction device 1 according to the present embodiment is substantially the same as that of the first embodiment. Detailed description is omitted. In addition, the hardware configuration of the banknote processing apparatus 10A in the automatic transaction apparatus 1 is substantially the same as that in the first embodiment, but as shown in FIG. The storage section 58 is different from the first embodiment in that the storage section 58 is a dedicated storage section 61 for storing a dedicated banknote.

  With reference to FIG.15 and FIG.16, operation | movement of the banknote processing apparatus 10 at the time of the accommodation process of a banknote and a payment process is demonstrated.

(2-2) Operation of Bill Processing Device (2-2-1) Outline of Storage Process First, an outline of a bill storage process will be described with reference to FIG. When the banknote handling apparatus 10A receives a banknote storage instruction from the host control unit 21, the banknote handling apparatus 10A feeds the banknotes that are inserted into the deposit / withdrawal port 51 and temporarily held in the temporary storage section 53 one by one, and the discrimination section 52. Transport to. And banknote processing apparatus 10A compares with the discrimination result by the discrimination part 52, and the threshold value 131 of a damaged bill, and determines whether the said banknote is a normal banknote, a damaged banknote, or a reject banknote. As a result of the determination, when it is determined that the banknote is a normal banknote, the banknote is stored in the banknote storage unit 56 assigned to each denomination of the banknote. Moreover, when it is determined as a result of the determination that the banknote is a banknote, the banknote is stored in the banknote dedicated storage unit 61. If it is determined as a reject banknote as a result of the determination, the banknote is stored in the reject collection unit 55. In this way, by storing the banknote determined to be a non-payment at the time of the deposit process in the non-dedicated bill storage unit 61, the storage process is completed without storing the non-use banknote in the reject collection unit 55.

(2-2-2) Outline of Withdrawal Process Next, an outline of the banknote withdrawal process will be described with reference to FIG. When the banknote handling apparatus 10A receives a banknote withdrawal instruction from the host control unit 21, the banknote handling apparatus 10A delivers the designated number of banknotes one by one from the banknote storage unit 56 corresponding to the designated denomination, and sends it to the discrimination unit 52. Transport. And banknote processing apparatus 10A compares with the discrimination result by the discrimination part 52, and the threshold value 131 of a damaged bill, and determines whether the said banknote is a normal banknote, a damaged banknote, or a reject banknote. As a result of the determination, when it is determined that the bill is a normal bill, the bill is conveyed to the deposit / withdrawal port 51. Moreover, when it is determined as a result of the determination that the banknote is a banknote, the banknote is stored in the banknote dedicated storage unit 61. If it is determined as a reject banknote as a result of the determination, the banknote is stored in the reject collection unit 55. In this way, by storing the banknote determined to be a non-payment at the time of the withdrawal process in the non-dedicated bill storage unit 61, the withdrawal process is completed without storing the non-use banknote in the reject collection unit 55.

(2-3) Effects of the present embodiment As described above, in the present embodiment, the reject recovery unit is configured by storing the banknote determined to be a banknote in the deposit process in the banknote dedicated storage unit 61. It is possible to prevent 55 from becoming full.

(3) Third Embodiment (3-1) Appearance Configuration and Hardware Configuration of Automatic Transaction Device The appearance configuration and hardware configuration of the automatic transaction device 1 according to this embodiment are the same as those in the first embodiment. Since it is almost the same, detailed description is omitted. In the following, a configuration different from that of the first embodiment will be described in detail. In the present embodiment, the reject collection unit 55 is prevented from becoming full by dispensing the normal banknote and the damaged banknote together in accordance with an instruction from the staff. For example, in an area where the average degree of damage of circulating banknotes is high, it is conceivable to operate with a higher level of banknotes or withdrawn together with banknotes and normal banknotes.

(3-2) Operation of the banknote processing apparatus The operation during the banknote storage process is the same as that in the first embodiment. Therefore, in the following, the operation at the time of banknote withdrawal processing different from the first embodiment will be described. Will be described.

  As shown in FIG. 17, when the banknote handling apparatus 10 receives a banknote withdrawal instruction from the host control unit 21, the banknotes are designated one by one from the banknote storage unit 56 corresponding to the designated denomination. It is fed out and conveyed to the discrimination unit 52. And the banknote processing apparatus 10 compares the discrimination result by the discrimination part 52 with the threshold value 131 of a damaged bill, and determines whether the said banknote is a normal banknote, a damaged banknote, or a reject banknote. As a result of the determination, when it is determined that the bill is a normal bill, the bill is conveyed to the deposit / withdrawal port 51. Moreover, when it determines with it being a banknote as a result of determination, the said banknote is conveyed to the deposit or withdrawal port 51 similarly to a normal banknote. If it is determined as a reject banknote as a result of the determination, the banknote is stored in the reject collection unit 55. In this way, during the withdrawal process, the banknotes stored in the banknote storage unit 56 are withdrawn together with normal banknotes according to the operation of the clerk to prevent the reject collection unit 55 from becoming full. Yes.

  In the present embodiment, it is assumed that the “special operation” in which the normal banknote and the damaged banknote are combined and dispensed by the staff via the staff operating unit 9 is set in advance. As shown in FIG. 18, the clerk operation unit 9 has a “normal operation” button 91 that specifies that only normal banknotes are to be withdrawn, and a “special” that specifies that the normal banknotes and banknotes are to be withdrawn together. An operation setting selection screen 90 including an “operation” button 92 is displayed.

(3-3) Effects of the present embodiment As described above, in the present embodiment, at the time of withdrawal processing, the banknotes stored in the banknote storage unit 56 are combined with normal banknotes according to the operation of the clerk. Withdrawing money, the rejection collection unit 55 can be prevented from becoming full.

10, 10A banknote processing device (paper sheet processing device)
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 12 Coin processing apparatus 20 High-order control unit 30 Banknote processing part control unit 40 Discrimination part unit 51 Deposit / withdrawal port 52 Discrimination part 53 Temporary holding part 54 Return holding part 55 Reject collection part 56 Banknote storage part 57 Loading collection box 58 Loading collection banknote storage 59 Reloading / rejecting part 60 Conveying path 61 Dedicated card storage part

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A paper sheet processing apparatus that handles a plurality of types of paper sheets,
One or more paper sheet storage units for storing paper sheets for each type;
A discrimination section that discriminates the state level of the paper sheet,
A reject collection unit for storing reject paper sheets determined to be indistinguishable by the discrimination unit;
A temporary storage unit for temporarily retracting the paper sheets;
Based on the discrimination result of the paper sheet by the discrimination unit, a control unit for controlling acceptance or feeding of the paper sheet,
With
The controller is
Based on the discrimination result of the discrimination unit, whether the paper sheet is the reject paper sheet, the abnormal paper sheet in which the state level of the paper sheet exceeds a predetermined reference level, or the predetermined reference level. Judge whether it is a normal paper sheet that does not exceed,
When the paper sheet is received, the reject paper sheet is stored in the reject collection unit, the abnormal paper sheet and the normal paper sheet are stored in the paper sheet storage unit,
When feeding out the paper sheets, the abnormal paper sheets stored in the paper sheet storage unit are stored in the temporary storage unit, and the normal paper sheets stored in the paper sheet storage unit are stored in the temporary storage unit. The paper sheet processing apparatus, wherein the abnormal paper sheets stored in the temporary storage unit after being fed out are stored again in the paper sheet storage unit. The controller is
The paper sheet processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined reference level is set according to the number of reject paper sheets stored in the reject collection unit. The controller is
When the number of reject paper sheets stored in the reject collection unit is greater than a first threshold, the reference level of the paper sheets is set to a value greater than a second threshold;
When the number of reject paper sheets stored in the reject collection unit is less than a third threshold value, the reference level of the paper sheets is set to a value smaller than a fourth threshold value,
When the number of reject paper sheets stored in the reject collection unit is equal to or greater than a third threshold value and equal to or less than a first threshold value, the reference level of the paper sheets is equal to or greater than the fourth threshold value. The sheet processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the sheet processing apparatus is set to be equal to or less than a second threshold value. The controller is
The paper sheet processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined reference level and the state level of the paper sheet are compared to determine whether the paper sheet is the abnormal paper sheet. . The predetermined reference level is a value indicating the degree of damage of the paper sheet,
When the reference level is low, it is determined that the paper sheet of the state level having a high degree of damage is the abnormal paper sheet, and when the reference level is high, the paper of the state level having a low degree of damage. The paper sheet processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the paper sheet is determined to be the abnormal paper sheet. The controller is
The paper sheets are stored when the ratio of the abnormal paper sheets stored in the paper sheets storage section is equal to or greater than a predetermined ratio and the capacity that can be stored in the reject collection section is equal to or greater than a predetermined capacity. The paper sheet processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the paper sheets stored in a unit are fed out and the abnormal paper sheets are stored in the reject collection unit. The controller is
After feeding out the paper sheets stored in the paper sheet storage unit, storing the normal paper sheets in the temporary storage unit, and storing the abnormal paper sheets in the reject collection unit, the abnormal paper The paper sheet processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the paper sheets are stored again in the paper sheet storage unit. The controller is
At least one of the paper sheet storage units is a storage unit dedicated to abnormal paper sheets that stores only the abnormal paper sheets,
When the paper sheet is received, the reject paper sheet is stored in the reject collection unit, the abnormal paper sheet is stored in the abnormal paper sheet dedicated storage unit, and the normal paper sheet is stored in the paper sheet. The paper sheet processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the paper sheet processing apparatus is stored in a storage unit. The controller is
Depending on the staff's input,
When the paper sheet is received, the reject paper sheet is stored in the reject collection unit, the abnormal paper sheet and the normal paper sheet are stored in the paper sheet storage unit,
The paper sheet processing apparatus, wherein when the paper sheet is fed out, the abnormal paper sheet stored in the paper sheet storage unit is fed together with the normal paper sheet. A paper sheet processing method using a paper sheet processing apparatus that handles a plurality of types of paper sheets,
One or more paper sheet storage units that store paper sheets for each type, a discrimination unit that discriminates the state level of the paper sheets, and reject paper sheets that are determined to be indistinguishable by the discrimination unit are stored. A reject collection unit, a temporary holding unit for temporarily retracting the paper sheet, and a control unit for controlling acceptance or feeding of the paper sheet based on the discrimination result of the paper sheet by the discrimination unit; With
The control unit is based on a discrimination result of the discrimination unit, whether the paper sheet is the reject paper sheet, whether the paper sheet is in an abnormal paper sheet whose state level exceeds a predetermined reference level, A first step of determining whether the sheet is a normal sheet that does not exceed a predetermined reference level;
A second step of storing the reject paper sheets in the reject collection unit and receiving the abnormal paper sheets and the normal paper sheets in the paper sheet storage unit when receiving the paper sheets;
When feeding out the paper sheets, the abnormal paper sheets stored in the paper sheet storage unit are stored in the temporary storage unit, and the normal paper sheets stored in the paper sheet storage unit are stored in the temporary storage unit. A paper sheet processing apparatus comprising: a third step of storing the abnormal paper sheet stored in the temporary storage unit after unwinding in the paper sheet storage unit again.

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