JP2014078089A - Paper sheet processing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem that, when a collector performs a different operation with a currency and a gift certificate at the time of the recovery of sales money stored in a device, if a currency processing device and a gift certificate money receiving machine are used, the introduction cost becomes expensive, whereas when paper currency and the gift certificate are handled on the same processing machine, though the introduction cost can be reduced, the expected operation cannot be realized.SOLUTION: A paper sheet processing device for the payment and storage of a currency and a gift certificate includes: a currency storage for storing the currency; a gift certificate storage for storing the gift certificate; an identification part for identifying or counting the currency and the gift certificate; and a paper sheet processing part for transporting the currency and the gift certificate. The paper sheet processing part transports the currency to the currency storage according to the identification result of the identification part, and stores the gift certificate into the gift certificate storage, and includes detection means for detecting the recovery authority of the paper currency stored in the currency storage and the gift certificate storage; and control means for restraining an access to the stored currency and gift certificate based on the detection means.

Description

  The present invention relates to a paper sheet processing apparatus.

  In stores that handle money, such as restaurants and retailers, the sales proceeds are managed by bringing the sales proceeds to a financial institution and transferring them to an account managed by the store. However, in order to transfer the proceeds to the account, he had to go to a financial institution with a large amount of money, and there was a risk of crime prevention such as burglary.

  On the other hand, companies that provide money handling services, such as security companies, provide sales collection services that reduce the risk of money transportation at stores by collecting sales at the stores. doing. In the sales collection service, sales are collected and stored on the store side, and sales are collected on the business side through a money processing device such as a sales deposit machine installed in the store.

  In the conventional money handling apparatus used in the sales collection service, it is assumed that only money is handled, and the gift certificate to be recorded as sales is managed on the store side. In managing the counting and storage of gift certificates, management by a store money manager is performed using a gift certificate deposit machine as disclosed in Patent Documents 1 and 2.

JP 2002-92737 A JP 2007-213493 A

  In the sales collection service, if the collected and stored sales are different for money and gift certificates, the conventional technology uses a gift certificate deposit machine and money processing as disclosed in Patent Document 1. It is necessary to install a device, and the introduction cost becomes very expensive. Moreover, the installation space is also required for two devices, and it is difficult to install unless the installation space such as the coin compartment of the store is sufficiently large.

  In addition, it is possible to carry and store banknotes and gift certificates with a single device using a money / gift certificate processing device as shown in Patent Document 2, but if the collectors are operated differently, The above operation cannot be performed because the collector can access the gift certificate and the gift collector can access the money.

  The present invention is a paper sheet processing apparatus for depositing and storing money and gift certificates, a money storage for storing money, a gift certificate storage for storing gift certificates, the money and the gift certificate And a paper sheet processing unit that conveys the money and the gift certificate, and the paper sheet processing unit stores the money according to the identification result of the identification unit. Based on the detection means and the detection means, the goods are stored in the gift certificate storage, and are transported to the money storage, and the collection authority of the banknotes stored in the money storage and the gift certificate storage is stored. Control means for restricting access to stored money and gift certificates is provided.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to deposit and store coins and gift certificates with a single device in a sales collection operation in which collecters are different for money and gift certificates. In addition, since the devices used for collecting the sales proceeds can be integrated, a plurality of devices are conventionally required, and space saving can be realized.

It is an external view of a sales deposit machine. It is a block diagram which shows the control structure of a sales deposit machine. It is an internal block diagram of a banknote / gift certificate processing apparatus. It is a flowchart which shows the collection | recovery process operation | movement of a sales deposit machine.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. The drawing shows the case where the present invention is applied to a sales deposit machine 1 that handles banknotes, coins, and gift certificates, and FIG. 1 is an external view of the sales deposit machine 1. In FIG. 1, various processes are started by reading various processing cards for depositing, closing, collecting, etc. in the card processing unit 2 provided in the sales deposit machine 1. The display / operation unit 3 is a touch panel, and performs operations such as screen display during processing standby such as the number of deposits, and guidance display / touch input during various processes. The form processing unit 4 releases a form on which various processing execution results are printed. The bill / gift voucher 5 is used for depositing bills and gift vouchers. The banknote / gift voucher return port 6 is used to release banknotes and vouchers returned by deposit cancellation, rejection, or the like. The coin deposit slot 7 receives coins of sales proceeds. The coin return slot 8 is used to release coins that are returned by deposit cancellation or rejection. The money / gift certificate storage unit 9 includes a cassette for storing banknotes, coins, and gift certificates, and stores the received money and gift certificates.

  FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration for controlling the sales deposit machine 1. The sales deposit machine 1 includes a card processing unit 2 that accepts processing cards that trigger various processing operations, a display / operation unit 3 that accepts input operations and displays screens for each processing, and a form processing unit that releases various processing forms. 4. Coin processing unit 11 for depositing coins, banknote / gift certificate processing unit (paper sheet processing unit) 12 for depositing banknotes and gift certificates, money / commodity for storing deposited coins / banknotes and gift certificates It comprises a ticket storage unit 9 and a main control unit 10 as a control means for controlling them, executing various processes, and reading / writing various data.

  Among these, the banknote / gift certificate processing unit 12 receives a command from the main control unit 10 of the sales deposit machine 1, and executes the banknote / gift certificate processing operation of the banknote / gift certificate processing unit 12 according to the command. The banknote / gift certificate processing unit 12 includes a control unit 13 that controls the banknote / gift certificate processing operation, a banknote / gift certificate deposit port 5, an identification unit 14 as a banknote / gift certificate identification / counting unit, a banknote and a product. A temporary holding unit 15 for temporarily holding a ticket, a banknote to be returned, and a banknote / gift certificate return port 6 for discharging a gift certificate are provided.

  The money / gift certificate storage unit 9 receives a command from the main control unit 10 of the sales deposit machine 1, and executes a collection processing operation for each collection authority according to the command. This money / gift voucher storage unit 9 includes a bill cassette C1 for storing and storing banknotes, a gift voucher cassette C2 for storing and storing gift certificates, a coin cassette C3 for storing and storing coins, and a case where a money collector performs recovery. Is unlocked, the banknote cassette cover 17 and the coin cassette cover 19 enabling the withdrawal of the banknote cassette C1 and the coin cassette C3, unlocked when the gift certificate collector collects, and the gift certificate cassette C2 can be removed. A gift certificate cassette cover 18 is provided.

  The deposit processing operation will be described taking a bill deposit processing operation as an example. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the internal configuration of the banknote / gift certificate processing unit 12 and the currency / gift certificate storage unit 9 close-up to banknote and gift certificate storage. When depositing banknotes, the banknotes are set in the banknote / gift certificate deposit port 5 and taken into the banknote / gift certificate processing unit 12. The taken banknotes are identified with authenticity and denomination by the identification unit 14 and temporarily held by the temporary holding unit 15. At this time, when it becomes a banknote which should be returned by an identification result, it is discharge | released to the banknote and gift certificate return port 6. FIG. When all of the set banknotes have been taken in and identified, or when the capacity of the temporary storage unit 15 is full, the banknotes stored in the temporary storage unit 15 are transported to the banknote cassette C1, stored, and stored.

Next, the collection processing operation of the sales deposit machine 1 will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.
When the collection operation start button displayed on the display / operation unit 3 of the sales deposit machine 1 is pressed and the processing card is read by the card processing unit 2, the collection operation is started. It is determined whether the read processing card is a collection card for stores that collects gift certificates (step S1), and if it is a collection card for stores, the gift certificate cassette cover 18 is unlocked (step S2), The lock of the gift certificate storage unit 9 is released (step S3), and the money / gift certificate storage unit 9 can be withdrawn (step S4). Since the gift certificate cassette cover 18 is unlocked, the gift certificate cassette cover 18 is removed (step S5), the gift certificate cassette C2 is removed (step S6), and the gift certificate cassette cover 18 is replaced with an empty gift certificate cassette C2. The cassette C2 is collected. When the empty gift certificate cassette C2 is set (step S7), the gift certificate cassette cover 18 is set (step S8), and the money / gift certificate storage unit 9 is set (step S9). At this time, it is determined whether or not there is any residue in the gift certificate cassette C2 (step S10). If there is a residue, it is judged that the gift certificate cassette C2 has not been exchanged or that the gift certificate cassette is incomplete, and the display / operation unit 3 displays a warning indicating that the gift certificate cassette C2 remains. (Step S11), the process returns to Step S2, and the collection operation of the gift certificate cassette C2 is performed again.

  If it is determined in step S1 that it is not a store recovery card, it is determined whether it is a security recovery card for recovering money (step S12). If it is a security recovery card, the banknote cassette cover 17 and the coin cassette cover 19 After unlocking (steps S13 and S14), the money / gift certificate storage unit 9 is unlocked (step S15), and the money / gift certificate storage unit 9 can be pulled out (step S16). Since the bill cassette cover 17 is unlocked, the bill cassette cover 17 is removed (step S17), the bill cassette C1 is removed (step S18), and an empty bill cassette C1 is set (step S19). 17 is set (step S20). Similarly, after the coin cassette C3 is collected (steps S22 to S24), the money / gift certificate storage unit 9 is set (step S25). At this time, it is determined whether or not there is any residue in the bill cassette C1 and the coin cassette C3 (step S26). If there is no residue, the recovery operation is terminated. If there is a residue, it is judged that the bill cassette C1 or the coin cassette C3 has not been exchanged, or that each cassette is defective, and a warning indicating that there is a currency remaining is displayed for the cassette whose residue has been detected by the display / operation unit 3. Display (step S27), return to step S13, and again perform the money collection operation.

  In this way, by determining the collection authority and limiting the cassettes that can be collected based on the determination results, when the money and gift certificate collectors operate different sales proceeds, the same money and gift certificate are used. It can be handled by the device, and it is possible to reduce the introduction cost and provide the sales collection service considering the installation space.

  In this embodiment, a method of restricting the access of the collector by providing a cover to the cassette for the collection authority has been described. However, as another embodiment, a money / gift certificate storage unit is drawn out. In this case, the gift certificate cassette C2 is disposed on the front side of the apparatus, the bill cassette C1 and the coin cassette C3 are disposed on the rear side of the apparatus, only the gift certificate cassette C2 is provided with a cover, and the withdrawal amount of the money / gift certificate storage unit is collected by the collection authority. It can also be realized by making different.

  In addition, a detachable gift certificate cassette C2 is provided on the front of the apparatus, and the inside of the apparatus is a money storage unit for storing only money cassettes. When collecting the gift certificates, the detachable gift certificate cassette C2 is removed to collect the money In the case of collecting the bill, the money storage unit is pulled out, and the bill cassette and the coin cassette can be collected. Similarly, even if the detachable gift certificate cassette C2 is not used on the front of the apparatus, a fixed box-shaped gift certificate storage unit is provided on the front of the apparatus instead of the cassette, and the gift certificate storage unit door is used when collecting the gift certificate. If the gift certificate is directly collected and money is collected by opening the bill, the money storage unit is pulled out, and the bill cassette and the coin cassette can be collected.

1: sales deposit machine, 2: card processing unit, 3: display / operation unit, 4: form processing unit, 5: bill / gift certificate deposit port, 6: bill / gift certificate return port, 7: coin deposit port, 8: Coin return slot, 9: Money and gift certificate storage

Claims (2)

A paper sheet processing apparatus for depositing and storing money and gift certificates,
A money storage for storing money; a gift certificate storage for storing gift certificates; an identification unit that does not identify or count the money and the gift certificate; and a paper sheet process for conveying the money and the gift certificate And the paper sheet processing unit conveys the money to the money storage according to the identification result of the identification unit, and stores the gift certificate in the gift certificate storage.
It comprises a detecting means for collecting the banknotes stored in the money storage and the gift certificate storage, and a control means for restricting access to the money and gift certificates stored based on the detecting means. Paper sheet processing equipment.   The paper sheet processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: a detection unit that detects the collection authority; and a control unit that restricts access to a bill or gift certificate storage unit based on the detection unit.

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