JP2016160038A - Carrying-storage facility of bank note - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate risk of a theft, by surely and quickly carrying a bank note inputted by a bank note input device at a high speed up to a safe bank note storage room.SOLUTION: A duct 1 is provided for sending a bank note inputted to a lending machine K of an island S of providing a plurality of rows of game machines P and lending machines K of a game shop, to a bank note storage room H of becoming a safe provided on the base end of the island, and a bank note passage 10 for vertically sending the bank note is provided in the duct 1, and a bank note insertion device In is provided for sending the bank note inputted to the lending machine K into the bank note passage 10 of the duct 1, and the bank note passage 10 is provided with a bank note sensor for detecting the presence of the sent-into bank note, and a carrier 2 is provided for traveling in the duct 1 by an air flow along the bank note passage 10, and the carrier 2 is provided with a blade 21 for capturing the bank note, and air blowers 152 and 162 are provided in a starting end-terminal part of the duct 1, and a control part CON is provided for controlling these.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

  Amusement machine rental machines, game machines, traffic ticket vending machines, ATM machines, vending machines, entertainment facility admission ticket purchasing machines, currency exchange machines, etc. are equipped with a bill insertion device function so that bills can be used, It calculates and displays the authenticity and number of bills to be inserted. When a bill is inserted into the bill insertion device of these devices, a required product / service is provided to the inserter. In the present invention, banknotes inserted by these banknote insertion devices are transported to a banknote storage room / safe or the like installed at a separate location away from the apparatus for safety or billing purposes, and banknotes are stored in these chambers. It is related with the technology that enables storage.

  Conventionally, there are those that temporarily store bills inserted into these bill insertion devices, but in this case, the inserted bills are accumulated inside the bill insertion device, and a large amount of money is stored. For this reason, there has been a crime in which banknotes are stolen from the banknote insertion device by an illegal person. In addition, the banknotes stored in the banknote insertion device are regularly or irregularly taken out and transported to safe places such as safes and banks, but this is time-consuming and expensive. There was also a risk of robbery during removal and transportation.

  In order to solve this problem, a device has been developed that immediately transports a bill inserted into a bill insertion device to a safe place.

  One of them is the invention of Patent Document 1. This invention is provided with a transport pipe for transporting paper sheets such as banknotes from an input device such as banknotes, a cylindrical transport auxiliary body is disposed within the transport pipe, and the transport auxiliary body is fed into the transport pipe It is a device that moves in a flow and feeds the paper sheets inserted by the input device into the transport pipe to the transport auxiliary body and feeds it downstream.

  However, in the invention of Patent Document 1, it is ensured that the paper sheet accompanies the columnar conveyance auxiliary body. However, the paper sheet body is deformed / displaced by the collision with the conveyance auxiliary body, and the conveyance tube and the conveyance auxiliary body. May be entangled in the gaps and boundaries between them, and there is a problem in the reliable transport of paper sheets.

Another method is the invention of Patent Document 2. This is a technique in which a paper sheet is introduced into a blower pipe and the paper sheet is conveyed downstream by an air flow in the blower pipe. This is a method that does not use a rigid carrier that is forcibly conveyed along with paper sheets.
However, when paper sheets are deformed or displaced by aerodynamic force or turbulent airflow, the paper sheets are clogged in the middle or adsorbed to the wall of the blower tube, making it impossible to smoothly transport banknotes. There is a point.

JP 2012-76875 A JP 2008-266027 A

  The problem to be solved by the present invention is to solve the problems of the conventional paper sheet transport device, and to transport the banknotes to the banknote storage room reliably and at high speed, and to the banknote storage room quickly and safely Move it and solve the problem of theft.

The configuration of the present invention that solves this problem is
1) When a bill is inserted, the authenticity of the inserted bill is determined, and if it is a genuine bill, provision of a predetermined product or service is given to a plurality of inserters who send out the bill from the device. Banknote insertion device, a banknote storage room installed at a location away from the installation location of the banknote insertion device, and a banknote that receives a banknote sent from each banknote insertion apparatus and conveys the banknote to the banknote storage chamber A banknote transport and storage facility comprising a transport device,
The banknote transport device is arranged with a closed duct formed therein with a banknote passage through which a paper surface of a banknote can be sent in a vertical posture to a position of the banknote storage chamber through a position close to each banknote insertion apparatus, Guided by a guide provided so as to protrude from the left and right side wall positions toward the center of the interior, travels downstream along the banknote path to the banknote storage room and upstream from the banknote storage room to the farthest banknote input device. A carrier that can move toward and captures a bill placed in the bill passage in the middle of the downstream movement is disposed in the bill passage,
In addition, the banknotes sent out from the banknote insertion device are received, and the banknotes are temporarily waited and sent to the banknote passage in the duct through a narrow vertical opening on the side wall of the duct so that the paper surface is in a vertical state at a required time. Equipped with a bill insertion device,
The carrier is temporarily stopped at a banknote passage position near the duct end of the duct in front of the banknote storage chamber, and a carrier stop banknote discharge unit for separating the banknote captured by the carrier from the carrier and feeding it to the banknote storage room is provided. An upstream carrier standby unit capable of temporarily stopping the carrier and starting downstream is provided at the banknote passage position of the upstream duct from the position of the banknote insertion device in the uppermost stream of the duct, and the carrier stopped banknote discharge unit and the upstream carrier standby The part has a stopper that enables the carrier to be temporarily stopped, a carrier detection sensor that detects the presence of the suspended carrier, and the carrier is blown toward the carrier in the paused duct so that the carrier is opposite to the bill passage. A blower that blows air to move toward the temporary stop position of the end,
The carrier receives a downstream air flow or an upstream air flow blown from the blower to generate a driving force for movement, and forward toward the downstream to capture the bill placed in the bill passage. A V-shaped banknote catching part with an opening is provided, and an opening is formed in the pressure-receiving part and the banknote catching part so that it can be fitted with the guide protruding toward the inner center of the duct. And a structure in which the carrier is smoothly moved along the bill passage by fitting a guide into the opening,
A bill detection sensor for detecting that a bill inserted for each bill insertion device is placed in a bill passage in the duct by a bill insertion device is provided in the duct,
When receiving both the banknote detection signal from the banknote detection sensor and the carrier detection signal by the carrier detection sensor of the upstream carrier standby section, the detected carrier is downstream from the upstream carrier standby section along the banknote path. Control so that the blower of the upstream carrier standby unit is activated so as to be movable toward the carrier, and the carrier detection sensor of the carrier stop bill discharge unit outputs a carrier detection signal and all bills are detected. If the sensor is in the non-detection signal of the banknote, the start of the blower on the carrier stop banknote discharge part side is controlled so as to move the carrier from the carrier stop banknote discharge part to the upstream carrier standby part. The carrier detection sensor outputs a carrier detection signal, and all banknote detection sensors are in the state of non-detection signals of banknotes. If the bill is inserted into the bill passage, the bill is inserted into the bill passage and the bill is inserted into the bill passage. As a pressure receiving part for the carrier described in 1) above, a V-shaped pressure receiving part for the carrier described in 1) above, comprising a control part for performing control to stop the blower in response to a carrier detection signal of a carrier detection sensor. The front and rear parts of the carrier have long blades with a tip extending toward the inner wall surface of the duct, and an opening for fitting the guide to the blades is formed. It is set as the size which makes it approach or contact, and it is assumed that the aerodynamic force from the air flow is received by the V-shaped vane to increase the propulsive force of the carrier, and the V-shaped vane at the front of the carrier also serves as the bill catcher ,Previous 1) The banknote transport and storage facility described in 1) 3) The V-shaped blades of the carrier described in 2) are made elastically deformable, and the blades are elastically deformed by the air flow so as to contact the inner wall surface of the duct. The banknote transport and storage facility described in 2) above, which can be expanded 4) Guides provided in the duct are formed by horizontally projecting a part of the left and right duct side walls toward the center of the duct with a vertical width. The carrier space is formed so that the space in the duct between the tips on the center side of the pair of left and right guides is a banknote passage, and is fitted to the guide with the vertical width to practice. The banknote storage device 5) according to any one of 2) to 3) above, in which an opening into which the guide can be inserted is formed in the middle of a letter-shaped blade. Capture with A banknote receiving section for temporarily waiting for a banknote that can be sent out to a vertically long slit-shaped opening provided in the duct after being temporarily stopped in the duct, and a banknote sent from the banknote receiving section provided in the slit-shaped opening of the duct. A turning guide that guides the banknote passage, a roller driving section that drives a roller that feeds out banknotes in the banknote receiving section, and a receipt detection sensor that detects the presence of banknotes temporarily stopped in the banknote receiving section. The bill conveyance / storage facility 6 according to any one of 1) to 4), wherein the structure is configured such that the detection signal of the receipt detection sensor is input to the control unit, and the operation signal of the roller driving unit is sent from the control unit. ) The duct is formed by integrally molding a duct outer wall, an internal banknote passage, and a guide that projects the middle part of the side wall of the duct outer wall toward the center. 7) The banknote transport and storage facility 7) The banknote transport and storage facility 8) according to any one of 1) to 6) above, wherein an auxiliary blower for sending an air flow into the duct is provided at a plurality of locations along the duct. Instead of the blower provided at the start and end, the two blower ducts branched from one blower connect the duct's start-end side air outlet and end-side air outlet, and provide dampers in the middle of each air duct to control The opening and closing control of the damper can be controlled by the section so that the air can be blown independently from the beginning and end of the duct. The banknote transport and storage facility 9) according to any one of the above 1) to 7) is close to the carrier stop banknote discharging section. The banknote transport and storage facility according to any one of 1) to 8) above, wherein a brake for reducing the moving speed of the carrier is provided at a position on the upstream side and a position on the downstream side near the upstream carrier standby unit. 10) A facility for transporting and storing banknotes in a game arcade where a plurality of gaming machines and lending machines, which are bill insertion devices, are arranged on the left and right sides of the amusement islands. A common duct is provided so as to pass between the lending machines, so that banknotes inserted and sent to the left and right lending machines can be sent to different positions in the banknote passage of the duct by a banknote insertion device connected to the lending machine. The banknote transport and storage facility according to any one of 1) to 9).

  In the present invention, a bill inserted from a bill insertion device and sent out as a true bill after authenticity determination is fed into a bill passage of a duct sealed by a bill insertion device. The bill is placed in the bill passage in a vertical state, the bill detection sensor detects the bill, and if the carrier is detected and stopped by the carrier detection sensor in the upstream carrier standby section, these detection signals are received. The control unit activates the blower in the upstream carrier standby unit to send an air flow to the duct, and the carrier receives air blown by the pressure receiving unit to obtain a propulsive force and is moved downstream by the guide of the guide along the banknote passage of the duct. It is. In the middle of moving toward the downstream, the carrier captures the banknote at the banknote capturing part and sends it to the front of the banknote storage room. And while a carrier is temporarily stopped by a carrier stop banknote discharge | release part, the captured banknote is sent into the banknote storage chamber via the extension part of the banknote path | route. In this way, by capturing the banknote with the carrier, moving the banknote passage in the duct, sending it into the banknote storage room where safety can be increased, and storing it, and the banknote is closed in the duct, It is difficult to remove bills while they are being conveyed. Furthermore, since the bill is captured by the carrier moving by the air flow in the duct and moved at a high speed, the carrier is also moving during the bill movement, so that it is difficult to remove the bill in the duct.

  Since the carrier of the present invention has a V-shaped bill catching portion, the bill placed so that the paper surface placed in the duct passage of the duct becomes vertical, the bill catches spread in the V-shape of the carrier. Even if there is some deviation in the position where the banknote was placed in the section and the banknote, it is reliably received by the trumpet-shaped banknote capturing section that spreads to the left and right, ensuring that the banknote is captured downstream with the carrier Can be transported.

  If the carrier pressure receiving part and the bill catching part are used as a member having a V-shaped blade, the blade greatly receives the air flow in the duct both in the downstream direction and in the upstream direction. A high driving force can be generated in both downstream directions. Thereby, the carrier can deliver the banknote from the banknote insertion by the lending machine to the banknote storage room in a time of about 11 to 20 seconds on one island of the amusement shop. Also, the empty carrier can be returned to the upstream carrier standby unit at high speed. The pressure receiving portion of the present invention is not limited to a V-shaped blade shape, and may be a planar shape. Alternatively, the air flow can be received in a small area.

  In particular, if the blades are elastically deformable, the blades can expand to the left and right by air pressure and come into contact with the inner wall surface of the duct, the pressure receiving area is widened to obtain higher propulsive force, and the carrier can be elastically deformed. The tip of the blade is in light contact with the inner surface of the duct so that the carrier can move smoothly.

  In addition, if a brake that reduces the carrier speed or temporarily stops the carrier is provided near the end / start end of the duct, the carrier is decelerated with the brake to reduce the impact / breakage caused by the sudden stop of the carrier, and the carrier is decelerated. Can be paused slowly with little impact. In addition, the bills captured by the carrier can be moved slowly to the bill storage chamber due to inertia.

  Further, in the case where the banknote insertion device is provided with a turning guide curved downstream in the vertically long opening of the duct, the banknote placed in the banknote passage of the duct from the opening is substantially perpendicular to the banknote passage direction by this turning guide. Therefore, it is easy to make the paper surface straight along the banknote path.

  In addition, if an auxiliary blower that sends airflow into the duct is provided in the middle of the duct, the auxiliary blower in the middle adds airflow even if the blower power of the main blower at the upstream end or downstream end of the duct decreases. Thus, an air flow having a required flow rate can be secured and the speed of the carrier can be increased.

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram of the structure of the embodiment. FIG. 2 is a front view of the embodiment. FIG. 3 is a plan view of the embodiment. FIG. 4 is a cutaway perspective view showing the inside of the duct of the embodiment. FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view of the duct of the embodiment. FIG. 6 is an enlarged perspective view of the carrier of the embodiment. FIG. 7 is a plan view of the carrier of the embodiment. FIG. 8 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line AA of FIG. FIG. 9 is a front view of the carrier of the embodiment. FIG. 10 is a rear view of the carrier of the embodiment. FIG. 11 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a fitting state of the carrier and the guide in the duct according to the embodiment. FIG. 12 is an explanatory diagram illustrating the structure of the lending machine and the bill insertion device according to the embodiment. FIG. 13 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a carrier stop banknote discharge unit of the duct according to the embodiment. FIG. 14 is an explanatory diagram illustrating an upstream carrier standby portion of the duct according to the embodiment. FIG. 15 is a structural diagram illustrating the stopper according to the embodiment. FIG. 16 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a brake according to the embodiment. FIG. 17 is an explanatory diagram of a hardware configuration of the control unit according to the embodiment. FIG. 18 is a processing flowchart of banknote conveyance by computer software operated by the control unit. FIG. 19 is a processing flowchart of banknote conveyance by computer software operated by the control unit. FIG. 20 is a processing flowchart of banknote conveyance by computer software operated by the control unit. FIG. 21 is an explanatory view showing another structural example of air flow blowing.

  The phrase “the posture in which the paper surface of the banknote is vertical” in claim 1 of the present invention may be vertical on any side of the horizontal side of the banknote in a state where the banknote stands vertically with the thickness of the banknote. “Vertical” means “vertical” posture and “posture of the banknote in an angle state slightly tilted from vertical”. Since the vertical state which makes the long side of a banknote the lower side is stabilized, it is preferable.

  As the brake, a method of providing a brake member on the inner side surface of the duct for reducing the speed by generating a drag force and a friction force by contacting the tip of the bill catching portion of the carrier can reduce the speed of the carrier with a simple structure. Alternatively, a method of reducing the speed by providing a cushion material between the carrier and the stopper for stopping the carrier is also possible. Alternatively, the stoppers 151 and 161 are slidable with respect to the inner side surface of the duct, and by providing an urging means for generating an urging force in a deceleration direction such as a spring in the sliding range, the carrier slides while decelerating with the urging force. It can also be stopped completely at the end.

  The control unit of the present invention is preferable because a control process by a program using a computer can easily generate and output an electrical control signal under complicated conditions by inputting an electrical detection signal. It also has a built-in clock and calendar, and can store the receipt time, date, and order of receipt of bills inserted into the memory of the computer, together with the bill insertion device and its roller drive unit ID, etc. This is preferable in determining the banknote transport order. These processes can be performed by an electronic circuit / logic circuit having an equivalent function without using a computer.

The bills inserted into the bill insertion device are sent out from the device, sent to the bill insertion device, taken in by the bill receiving unit, and temporarily stopped (temporary standby). The receipt detection sensor confirms the bill at that position and outputs a bill detection signal to the storage unit of the control unit. When the banknote detection signal is input to the storage unit, the time when the banknote detection signal is input is stored as the reception time in association with the ID of the roller driving unit of the banknote insertion device / banknote insertion device. In the storage unit, the receipt times when the bill detection signal is input are listed in order of time, and are segmented by a fixed time. If the time of this division is set to a long number of days or a unit of one day, it becomes the same as no division. The present invention also includes this.
Next, it is generally determined by order determination software (program) that determines the conveyance order of inserted bills. In that software, the order of sending banknotes into the banknote passage in the duct is determined for each sheet, and the order is sent to the feed control unit that sends the operation signal of the device. An operation signal is sent to the roller drive part of the banknote receiving part of the banknote of the insertion order, and the other roller drive part is made to keep a stop signal in the meantime.

  And if the banknote which became the one delivery order is put in the banknote channel | path in a duct, if the banknote detection sensor detects and the presence of a carrier is confirmed in an upstream carrier standby part by a carrier detection sensor, a control part will be The blower on the start side is actuated to start the carrier downstream, and the carrier is moved in the duct. The V-shaped bill catching part (blade) of the carrier catches the bill while moving, This is sent to the downstream bill storage room.

The simplest ordering software (program) described above stores the reception time of the reception detection sensor input to the storage unit and the roller drive unit ID in association with each other, and sets the classification without providing the classification. It is cleared every day as a daily unit, and the banknotes are placed in the banknote passage of the duct in the order of the input receipt time.
This ordering software not only sorts the receipt time entered in the storage unit, but also sorts the receipt time according to the time at regular intervals, for example, at intervals of 15 minutes, and is not in the order of receipt time depending on the insertion position etc. in the banknote duct. It is also possible to send banknotes in the sending order.

  Generally, a bill insertion device is generally provided with a bill authenticity determination device that determines the authenticity of a bill inserted, a device that counts the number of bills, and a display that displays the amount of the bill inserted. Yes. The bill insertion device according to the present invention generally includes the determination device, the counting device, and the display.

  The banknote storage room of the present invention is preferably made of a metal material that can be unlocked only by a specific person in a safe place, is hard to be unlocked from the outside like a safe, and is fireproof with a metal material that is not easily destroyed. Moreover, it is preferable that various security devices are installed.

In the present invention, it is preferable that the outer wall of the straight duct part, the guide, the bill passage, etc. be used as an integrally formed linear long material. The curved portion of the duct is a separate body, and only the curved duct portion is manufactured and connected so that the front and rear or upper and lower straight duct portions, the internal guide, and the bill passage are continuous.
Furthermore, the duct of the present invention may have a curved shape or a shape that bypasses a structure such as a store.

  The carrier of the present invention is preferably made of plastic because it is light and the wind power of the blower is low. Moreover, as the elastically deformable V-shaped blade, a soft plastic or spring steel material that can elastically deform only the tip portion can be used.

  In addition, it is preferable that the pressure receiving portion of the carrier of the present invention has a V-shaped blade opened rearward because the propulsive force from the air flow is high, but the present invention is not limited to this, and the flow of the air flow is limited. It may be a planar pressure receiving portion that receives at a right angle. Or you may receive an airflow only in the specific part of a carrier. Furthermore, as a structure in which an air passage that is separated and independent from the bill passage is formed in the duct and a pressure receiving portion of the carrier is provided so as to hit the air flow of the air passage, air flow can be prevented from entering the bill passage. .

  The receipt detection sensor of the present invention can be provided in the roller driving unit of the bill insertion device following the bill feeding roller device that feeds the paper provided in the rear portion of the bill insertion device vertically, or can also be arranged inside the bill insertion device. It is preferable to provide a turning guide for turning the bill feeding direction so as to be in the direction of the bill passage in the duct at the periphery of the vertically narrow opening of the duct at the tip of the feeding roller of the roller driving unit. . A part of the inner guide from the opening is also cut away to provide a banknote feeding path to the banknote path.

  Also, if the duct is long, if the capacity of the blower is insufficient with only the blower with the highest flow rate, or if the wind speed decreases midway, as shown by the imaginary line in FIG. 3, the auxiliary blower is placed between the start and end of the duct. Is preferably provided. The duct blower may be provided with independent blowers at the start and end of the duct, or the air flow from one blower is divided into ducts in the start and end directions, and each duct is equipped with a damper. It is also possible to switch the passage. This structure has the same function as the blowers at both ends, and the present invention includes them.

  In addition, the airtightness of the duct does not require complete airtightness in all ducts, and there may be some air leakage from the outer peripheral wall of the duct, and the degree of air leakage is reduced so that the capacity of the blower does not become excessive. If it is. Further, since the vertically long opening of the duct in the vicinity of the bill insertion device communicates with the inside of the bill insertion device and does not cause a large air leak, the influence is small. If necessary, it is preferable to provide an air-blocking curtain that allows only passage of banknotes that block the wind pressure from the air duct side in the banknote passage of the banknote insertion device from the lending machine. In addition, it is preferable to provide an exhaust valve that releases air pressure appropriately at appropriate locations at the beginning and end of the duct.

  Also, in the present invention, when a single banknote is placed in the banknote passage in the duct, all banknote insertion devices are deactivated, a carrier is sent by air blowing, and one banknote is stored in a bank with one carrier. When the carrier is fed for each bill to be sent to the chamber, the control is performed by the control unit so that the carrier is immediately moved back in the direction of the start end by the air flow. This is preferable because the banknote can be safely and quickly stored in the banknote storage room. The present invention is not limited to this, and a plurality of banknotes can be placed in the banknote passage, and a single carrier can capture a plurality of banknotes and send it to the banknote storage chamber. In the following examples, the bills are fed one by one.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

  The banknote transport and storage facility G of the present embodiment shown in FIGS. 1 to 20 has about 20 units arranged at regular intervals on the left and right sides of the island S (island ID = 08) of the gaming machine in the amusement store. The lending machine K (about 40 units on the left and right sides) is used as a bill insertion device. The duct 1 is disposed between the left and right rental machines K so as to extend in the island direction. The duct 1 is made of plastic, and a guide 11 is provided in the middle of the vertical height, having a width of about 1/3 of the vertical height of the carrier 2 and extending symmetrically in the central direction of the duct. The duct 1 and the guide 11 are manufactured by integral molding. The banknote storage chamber H on the downstream side of the duct 1 is provided on the base end side of the island S so that it can be easily monitored.

The code | symbol of the conveyance storage facility of the banknote of the Example shown to FIGS. 1-20 is demonstrated.
G is a banknote transport and storage facility according to an embodiment of the present invention, K is a lending machine that is the banknote insertion device of the present invention, H is a banknote storage chamber of the present invention, C is a banknote transport apparatus of the present invention, and In is the present invention. A bill insertion device, CON is a control unit of the present invention, M is a bill, S is an island of the game hall of the present invention, and P is a game machine on the island of the present invention.

Further, reference numerals 1 to 406 in the figure are partial configurations of the main configurations G to P described above.
1 is a duct, 10 is a banknote passage of the duct 1, 11 is a U-shaped cross-sectional guide formed by extending an intermediate portion of a vertical side wall of the duct into the duct, 11a is a tip vertical surface of the guide 11, 11 b is a horizontal plane of the guide 11, 11 c is a notch that forms a passage through which the banknotes are fed by being entangled with the opening 13 of the guide 11, 12 is an inner surface of the duct 1, 13 is an opening for inserting banknotes in the duct 1, 131 Is a turning guide for guiding a bill provided outside the opening edge of the opening 13 of the duct 1 into the duct, 14 is a bill detection sensor, 15 is a carrier stop bill discharge part, 151 is a stopper on the carrier stop bill release part 15 side, 152 is a blower on the carrier stop banknote discharge part 15 side, 153 is a blower duct on the carrier stop banknote discharge part 15 side, 154 is a carrier detection sensor on the carrier stop banknote discharge part 15 side, 16 The upstream carrier standby part of the duct 1, 161 is a stopper on the upstream carrier standby part 16 side, 162 is a blower on the upstream carrier standby part 16 side, 163 is a blower duct on the upstream carrier standby part 16 side, and 164 is on the upstream carrier standby part 16 side 165 is an auxiliary blower provided in the middle of the duct 1, 180 is an air release valve that discharges the air flow in the duct 1 near the start and end, and 19 is a brake that reduces the speed of the carrier 2. A leaf spring, 19a is a pocket for accommodating the leaf spring 19, 19b is a slit for inserting the central portion of the leaf spring 19 into the duct, 2 is a carrier, 21 is a pair of upper and lower blades of the carrier 2 (pressure receiving portion / banknote catching portion) ), 22 is a blade (pressure receiving portion) that captures a bill attached to the carrier 2 on the opposite side of the blade, and 23 is a guide 11 of the carrier 2 inserted. 30 is a bill slot of the lending machine K, 31 is a roller device of the lending machine K, 31a is a roller of the lending machine K, 41 is a CPU of a computer used in the control unit CON, 42 is used in the control unit CON The computer interface, 200 is the blower of the second embodiment, 201 and 202 are the duct of the second embodiment, 203 and 204 are the dampers of the second embodiment, and 400 is the computer of the control unit CON for the operation of the present embodiment. A software processing unit for device control, input management, calculation, data and execution program storage, processing procedure determination, processing execution, and the like, and has the following configurations 401-405. 401 is a storage unit of the control unit CON, 402 is order determination software of the control unit CON, 403 is an infeed control unit of the control unit CON, 404 is a device control unit of the control unit CON, and the control unit CON is a remaining banknote processing work program. Not shown. 405 is a bill storage number counter of the control unit CON, 50 is a bill passage provided in front of the bill storage chamber H, 51 is a bill receiving port provided in front of the bill storage chamber H, and 52 is provided in front of the bill storage chamber H. The banknote storage sensor 60 is a banknote guide from the lending machine K to the banknote insertion apparatus In, 61 is a banknote receiving section of the banknote insertion apparatus In, 62 is a roller drive section of the banknote insertion apparatus In, and 63 is a banknote of the banknote insertion apparatus In. It is a receipt detection sensor which confirms receipt of.

  A banknote storage room H is provided at the end of the duct 1 (the base end position of the island S) which is strong and difficult to break and is remotely monitored. An upstream carrier standby portion 16 is provided near the start end of the uppermost stream of the duct 1, and a carrier stop bill discharge portion 15 is provided near the end of the duct 1. Carrier detection sensors 154 and 164, stoppers 151 and 161 shown in FIG. 15, and blowers 152 and 162 are provided in the upstream carrier standby unit 16 and the carrier stop bill release unit 15, respectively. The electrical signals of these apparatus instruments are input to and output from the control unit CON. In addition, a leaf spring 19 that is curved so as to protrude slightly in the middle in the upper and lower two steps on the left and right inner surfaces of the duct 1 at the banknote passage position before the upstream carrier standby section 16 and the carrier stop banknote discharge section 15 is provided. Four pieces are disposed, and the front and rear end portions of the leaf spring 19 pass through the slit of the duct 1 and are accommodated in a pocket 19 a attached to the outer wall surface of the duct 1. When the curved portion of the leaf spring 19 is pressed, it is deformed so as to be flat, and its front and rear end portions can be displaced in the front and rear direction. The leaf spring 19 comes into contact with the tips of the blades 21 and 22 of the carrier 2 and pressurizes the curved portion of the leaf spring 19 to deform and displace it. The resistance against deformation and displacement of the leaf spring 19 and the dynamic frictional force of contact serve as the braking force of the carrier 2 to decelerate the speed of the carrier 2. The leaf spring 19 and the pocket 19a serve as a brake of the present invention.

  The shape of the carrier 2 of the present embodiment is shown in FIGS. As the bill catching part and the dual pressure receiving part of the carrier 2, the blades 21 and 22 are provided on the front and rear sides so as to be symmetrically expanded in a V-shape and divided into two upper and lower stages. The blade is elastically deformed. The shapes of the blades 21 and 22 are slightly different between the front and rear. In the carrier 2, left and right guides 11 projecting from the central portion inside the duct 1 are fitted into an opening 23 provided in the middle between the upper and lower blades 21 and 22. A continuous long space between the tip vertical surfaces 11a in which the widths of the pair of left and right guides 11 are narrowed forms a bill passage 10.

  The rental machine K of the present embodiment corresponds to the bill insertion device of the present invention, and the gaming machines P and the rental machines K are alternately arranged on the left and right sides of the left and right sides of the island of the game hall. The lending machine K has a bill insertion slot 30 so that a thousand yen bill can be inserted. If you insert a thousand yen bill, you can automatically play 1,000 yen, write on a card, or in the old model, coins / balls etc. are discharged to the player side and can be used It has become.

  As shown in FIG. 12, this lending machine K has a bill insertion slot 30 in the front, the bill inserted at the bill insertion slot 30 is taken in by a roller device 31, and the bill is stopped at a predetermined position. After authenticating / determining with a true / false discrimination device (not shown), a bill is not waiting from the signal of the receipt detection sensor 63 in the bill receiving portion 61 of the bill insertion device In if it is a true note. If it is determined, the roller device 31 and the roller driving device 62 are operated, and the bill of the lending machine K is immediately sent to the bill insertion device In.

  The bill insertion device In accepts a bill fed from the back of the lending machine K by the bill guide 60 by the roller 61a, accepts it by the bill receiving unit 61 using the roller driving device 62, temporarily waits at this position, and controls the control unit. Wait for a send command from CON. Further, a receipt detection sensor 63 is provided for detecting whether or not there is a bill waiting in the bill receiving unit 61. The reception signal of the reception detection sensor 63 is output to the control unit CON and the rental machine K side.

Further, as can be seen from FIG. 12, a duct 1 is provided in the middle of the left and right rental machines K of the island S, and the left and right rental machines K are opposite to each other in the longitudinal direction of the ducts. The positions of the lending machine K and the bill insertion device In are arranged so as to be slightly shifted in the longitudinal direction of the duct.
In the left and right banknote insertion devices In, the banknotes introduced from the banknote guide 60 are taken in by the rollers 61 a and temporarily held in the banknote receiving unit 61. And the signal which the banknote is waiting from the receipt detection sensor 63 is output to the control part CON. Next, the roller drive unit 62 is actuated by a feeding command from the control unit CON, and the temporarily waiting banknote is fed out, and the direction guide 131, the vertically long opening 13 on the side wall surface of the duct 1 and the banknote insertion of the guide 11 are inserted. It can be sent to the bill passage 10 through the notch 11c.
And since the position of the banknote insertion apparatus In on either side is away in the duct direction, the insertion position of the banknote from right and left will not collide, and it enables it to insert a banknote independently on either side. It should be noted that this can be avoided by shifting the insertion time of the bills from the left and right.

  A guide 11 projecting to the center of the duct with a height in the vertical direction is fitted into an opening 23 provided in the middle of the blades 21 and 22 of the carrier 2. The peripheral edge portions of the openings of the blades 21 and 22 of the carrier 2 are in contact with the horizontal surface 11b of the upper and lower horizontal portions of the guide 11 to reduce the vertical movement. Moreover, the tip of the blades 21 and 22 can contact the inner surface 12 of the duct 1 with respect to the left and right movement of the carrier 2, and the intermediate portion of the blades 21 and 22 is restrained by the vertical surface 11 a of the left and right guides 11. In addition, the carrier 2 can be elastically deformed, and the carrier 2 can move while being restrained by being softly deformed and displaced even if there is contact. Therefore, the carrier 2 can smoothly and stably move along the duct 1 while being in contact with the duct 1 and the guide 11.

  Further, since the blade 21 of the carrier 2 spreads in a V shape from side to side from the width of the bill passage 10, the bill M placed vertically in the bill passage 10 is reliably captured by the blade 21.

  A blower opening (not shown) to the duct 1 of the two blower ducts 153 divided above and below the blower 152 on the downstream side is provided at a further downstream position of the carrier stop banknote discharge unit 15 of the duct 1. In addition, a blower opening (not shown) to the duct 1 of the two blower ducts 163 divided above and below the blower 162 on the upstream side is provided further upstream than the upstream carrier standby unit 16. Moreover, the air blowing ports (not shown) are provided separately in the upper and lower directions so as to face the upper and lower portions of the blades 21 and 22 of the carrier 2. The start signal and the stop signal of these blowers 152 and 162 are sent from the control unit CON. The blower stop signal is transmitted when the carrier 2 is detected by the carrier detection sensor 154 of the carrier stop bill discharge unit 15. Further, when the carrier 2 is detected by the carrier detection sensor 164 of the upstream carrier standby unit 16, a blower stop signal is transmitted.

The control unit CON shown in FIG. 17 of the embodiment is controlled using a computer. In the figure, 41 is a CPU, 42 is an interface for inputting / outputting signals to / from various external electric devices, 400 is a software processing unit installed in the HD or memory, and the software processing unit 400 includes 401. Is a storage unit for storing software (program) for control and output data of other sensors, other input / output data, software constants, and the like, 402 is sending banknotes waiting in the banknote insertion device In to the banknote passage 10 403 is a sending control unit that sends an operation signal to the roller driving device 62 of the required bill receiving unit 61 in order to send the waiting bills determined by the ordering software to the bill passage 10. 404 have a device control unit for generating an operation / stop signal for other electric devices.
In the bill storage room H, 50 is a bill passage in the extension of the bill passage 10 of the duct 1, 51 is a bill receiving port, and 52 is a bill storage sensor.

(Operation of the embodiment)
The operation of this embodiment will be described. 18 to 20 are flowcharts showing the operation of the embodiment.

(Initial setting 1)
Before operating this embodiment, the carrier 2 is reliably moved to the upstream carrier standby section 16.
Step 1: Only the blowers 152 and 162 and the control unit CON are supplied with power without energizing the lending machine K and the bill insertion device In, thereby enabling operation.
Step 2: Check whether all banknote detection sensors 14 in the duct are in the “non-detection” state. If all are “not detected”, go to step 4. Otherwise, go to step 3.
Step 3: If there is at least one in the “detected” state, the remaining banknote is discharged from the banknote passage. This is a process that cannot normally occur.
Step 4: If there is no remaining banknote, the blower 152 on the downstream side is operated to move the carrier 2 in the upstream direction and move to the upstream carrier standby unit 16.
Step 5: Next, when the upstream carrier detection sensor 164 detects that the carrier 2 is waiting, the blower 152 is stopped by the detection signal.

(Initial setting 2)
Step 6: The power of the lending machine K and the bill insertion device In is turned on, and the banknote feeding order i of the bill receiving units 61 of all the bill insertion devices In is given an initial value of “9999”.
Step 7: If there is a sensor in which the receipt detection sensor of the banknote receiving unit 61 is in the “banknote receiving” state, the ID of the banknote receiving unit 61 (the ID of the roller driving unit 62) in the storage unit 401 of the control unit CON. And the input time of the “reception” state is stored.
In addition, if the lending machine K is a true bill after inspecting and judging the inserted banknote with the authenticity determination device, the roller device 31 sends out a little banknote to the banknote receiving unit 61 of the banknote insertion device In. Then, if the receipt detection sensor 63 outputs a signal “no bill waiting”, the roller driving unit 62 of the bill insertion device In is immediately actuated to take in the bill that has been sent out a little, and the bill receiving unit 61 receives it. Hold the banknotes temporarily. When temporarily waiting, the receipt detection sensor 63 outputs a “banknote standby” signal to the control unit CON, and the storage unit 401 stores the receipt time in association with the IDs of the banknote receiving unit 61 and the roller driving unit 62. To do.

Step 8: Next, it is determined from the memory search in the storage unit 401 whether there is any receipt detection sensor 63 in the “banknote receipt” state.
If only one receipt detection sensor 63 is in the “banknote receipt” state, “i = 0” is given as the order of delivery i. If the plurality of receipt detection sensors 63 are in the “banknote receipt” state, serial numbers such as 1, 2, 3, 4,... To go. This is processed by the order determination software 402 of the control unit CON. The order i is stored in the storage unit 401 in association with the ID of the roller driving unit 62.

Step 9: It is determined whether or not the order of the banknote receiving unit 61 is “9999”. If all are “9999”, the process returns to Step 7, and if there is anything other than “9999”, the process proceeds to the next Step 10.
Step 10: Thereafter, the feeding control unit 403 of the control unit CON performs the operation so that the roller driving unit 62 having the youngest ranking in which the feeding order i is smaller than the 9999 value is operated.
Step 11: When a banknote is fed into the duct and the banknote detection sensor 14 inputs a “banknote detection” signal to the control unit CON, the upstream blower 162 is operated to blow downstream, and the carrier 2 is downstream. The bill M detected in the middle is captured by the V-shaped blade 21 of the carrier 2 and moved.
Step 12: After being decelerated by the leaf spring 19 of the downstream brake, the carrier 2 is forcibly stopped by the stopper 151. When the carrier 2 is forcibly stopped by the stopper 151, the bill M captured by the blade 21 of the carrier 2 is separated from the blade 21 by the traveling speed immediately before the stopper 151 due to its inertia, and discharged in the extending direction of the bill passage 10. Then, it passes through the banknote passage 50 of the banknote storage room H and is sent into the room from the banknote receiving port 51. In the banknote storage room H, the banknotes M are stored so as to be stacked.
Further, a bill storage sensor 52 provided in the vicinity of the bill reception port 51 detects the bill M, and adds “j + 1” to the number j stored in the bill storage number counter 405 and counts it.

Step 13: When the carrier detection sensor 154 senses that the carrier 2 is forcibly stopped by the stopper 151 and is at the downstream standby position, the upstream blower 162 is stopped, and after a few seconds, the control unit CON causes the downstream blower 152 to stop. Is operated and air is blown in the upstream direction, and the carrier 2 is moved in the upstream direction by the air blowing.
Step 14: When the carrier 2 moves upstream and is forcibly stopped by the stopper 161 on the start end side and waits upstream, the carrier detection sensor 164 detects this. This stops the blower 152 on the downstream side.
Step 15: When the carrier 2 waits at the upstream carrier standby unit 16 at Step 14, the process returns to Step 9.

  The stop of all operations of the present embodiment sends an end command to the control unit CON, thereby stopping the operation of the control unit CON and stopping the power supplies of the various devices.

  According to the present embodiment, all the bills inserted into the lending machine K are conveyed to the bill storage room H and can be strictly and safely monitored.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 21, instead of installing a total of two independent blowers 152 and 162 at the start and end sides of the duct 1, an air flow from one fan 200 is sent to the start and end sides. Two branched ducts 201 and 202 are provided, and opening and closing dampers 203 and 204 are provided in the duct so that the air blown by one blower 200 can be switched to either the start side or the end side of the duct. It is also possible to do. In this case, the number of sending machines can be reduced. Others have the same structure and function as the previous embodiment.

  The present invention is useful not only for amusement halls but also for storage of banknotes inserted into vending machines such as ticket purchase machines for transportation, merchandise and service tickets, and conveyance and storage of banknotes in ATM devices of financial institutions.

G Example of banknote transport and storage facility K Lending machine (banknote input device)
H bill storage room C bill transport device In bill insertion device CON control unit M bill S island P gaming machine 1 duct 10 bill passage 11 guide 11a guide tip vertical surface 11b guide horizontal surface 11c notch 12 duct inner surface 13 bill insertion Opening 131 Turning guide 14 Bill detection sensor 15 Carrier stop bill discharge unit 151 Stopper 152 Blower 153 Blower duct 154 Carrier detection sensor 16 Upstream carrier standby portion 161 Stopper 162 Blower 163 Blower duct 164 Carrier detection sensor 165 Auxiliary blower 180 Air release valve 19 Leaf spring (brake)
19a pocket 19b slit 2 carrier 21 blade (pressure receiving part / banknote catching part)
22 blades (pressure receiving part)
23 opening part 30 banknote slot 31 roller apparatus 31a roller 41 CPU
42 Interface 200 Blower 201, 202 Duct 203, 204 Damper 400 Software processing unit 401 Storage unit 402 Ordering software 403 Feed control unit 404 Device control unit 405 Banknote storage number counter 50 Banknote passage 51 Banknote entry 52 Banknote storage sensor 60 Banknote Guide 61 Bill receiving part 62 Roller driving part 63 Receipt detection sensor

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Banknotes for providing a predetermined product or service to a plurality of users who send out banknotes from the device after determining the authenticity of the inserted banknotes when a banknote is inserted. A banknote storage device installed at a location remote from the installation location of the banknote insertion device, and a banknote transport device that receives banknotes sent from each banknote insertion device and transports the banknotes to the banknote storage chamber A bill storage facility comprising:
The banknote transport device is arranged with a closed duct formed therein with a banknote passage through which a paper surface of a banknote can be sent in a vertical posture to a position of the banknote storage chamber through a position close to each banknote insertion apparatus, Guided by a guide provided so as to protrude from the left and right side wall positions toward the center of the interior, travels downstream along the banknote path to the banknote storage room and upstream from the banknote storage room to the farthest banknote input device. A carrier that can move toward and captures a bill placed in the bill passage in the middle of the downstream movement is disposed in the bill passage,
In addition, the banknotes sent out from the banknote insertion device are received, and the banknotes are temporarily waited and sent to the banknote passage in the duct through a narrow vertical opening on the side wall of the duct so that the paper surface is in a vertical state at a required time. Equipped with a bill insertion device,
The carrier is temporarily stopped at a banknote passage position near the duct end of the duct in front of the banknote storage chamber, and a carrier stop banknote discharge unit for separating the banknote captured by the carrier from the carrier and feeding it to the banknote storage room is provided. An upstream carrier standby unit capable of temporarily stopping the carrier and starting downstream is provided at the banknote passage position of the upstream duct from the position of the banknote insertion device in the uppermost stream of the duct, and the carrier stopped banknote discharge unit and the upstream carrier standby The part has a stopper that enables the carrier to be temporarily stopped, a carrier detection sensor that detects the presence of the suspended carrier, and the carrier is blown toward the carrier in the paused duct so that the carrier is opposite to the bill passage. A blower that blows air to move toward the temporary stop position of the end,
The carrier receives a downstream air flow or an upstream air flow blown from the blower to generate a driving force for movement, and forward toward the downstream to capture the bill placed in the bill passage. A V-shaped banknote catching part with an opening is provided, and an opening is formed in the pressure-receiving part and the banknote catching part so that it can be fitted with the guide protruding toward the inner center of the duct. And a structure in which the carrier is smoothly moved along the bill passage by fitting a guide into the opening,
A bill detection sensor for detecting that a bill inserted for each bill insertion device is placed in a bill passage in the duct by a bill insertion device is provided in the duct,
When receiving both the banknote detection signal from the banknote detection sensor and the carrier detection signal by the carrier detection sensor of the upstream carrier standby section, the detected carrier is downstream from the upstream carrier standby section along the banknote path. Control so that the blower of the upstream carrier standby unit is activated so as to be movable toward the carrier, and the carrier detection sensor of the carrier stop bill discharge unit outputs a carrier detection signal and all bills are detected. If the sensor is in the non-detection signal of the banknote, the start of the blower on the carrier stop banknote discharge part side is controlled so as to move the carrier from the carrier stop banknote discharge part to the upstream carrier standby part. The carrier detection sensor outputs a carrier detection signal, and all banknote detection sensors are in the state of non-detection signals of banknotes. If the bill is inserted into the bill passage, the bill is inserted into the bill passage and the bill is inserted into the bill passage. A bill transport and storage facility comprising a control unit that receives a carrier detection signal from a carrier detection sensor and performs control to stop the blower.   An opening for fitting a guide to the vane having a longitudinally shaped vane in the front and rear of the carrier as a pressure receiving portion of the carrier according to claim 1 having a V-shaped shape with its tip expanded toward the inner wall surface of the duct. In addition, the tip of the blade is sized to be close to or in contact with the inner wall surface of the duct, and the propulsive force of the carrier is increased by receiving the aerodynamic force from the air flow with the V-shaped blade. The banknote transport and storage facility according to claim 1, wherein the front V-shaped blade also serves as a banknote capturing section.   The V-shaped blade of the carrier described in claim 2 is made elastically deformable so that the blade can be elastically deformed by an air flow so as to expand so as to contact the inner wall surface of the duct. The banknote transport storage facility described.   The guide provided in the duct is formed by horizontally projecting a part of the left and right duct side walls toward the center inside the duct with a vertical width, and is formed at the tip which is the center side of the pair of left and right guides. The opening in which the guide can be inserted in the middle of the V-shaped blade of the carrier is formed so that the space in the duct between the bill passage is used and the guide with the vertical width is fitted and learned. The conveyance storage facility of the banknote in any one of 2-3.   The banknote insertion device is a banknote receiving section for temporarily waiting for a banknote that can be sent out to a vertically long slit-shaped opening provided in a duct after the banknote sent from the banknote insertion apparatus is temporarily stopped with a roller, and a slit of the duct A turning guide for guiding a bill sent out from the bill receiving portion to a bill passage in a duct, a roller driving portion for driving a roller for feeding out the bill in the bill receiving portion, and the bill receiving portion A structure including a receipt detection sensor for detecting the presence of a temporarily stopped banknote, the detection signal of the receipt detection sensor is input to the control unit, and the operation signal of the roller drive unit is sent from the control unit, The banknote conveyance storage equipment in any one of Claims 1-4.   The bill transport and storage facility according to claim 1, wherein the duct is formed by integrally molding a duct outer wall, an inner bill passage, and a guide in which the upper and lower intermediate portions of the side wall of the duct outer wall protrude toward the center.   The banknote transport and storage facility according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein an auxiliary blower for sending an air flow into the duct is provided at a plurality of locations in the middle of the duct.   Instead of the blower provided at the start and end of the duct, the two blower ducts of a single blower connect the start and end blower ports on the duct and provide a damper in the middle of each blower duct. The banknote transport and storage facility according to any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein the control unit can control the opening and closing of the damper so that air can be blown independently from the start and end of the duct.   The conveyance of the banknote in any one of Claims 1-8 which provided the brake which reduces the moving speed of a carrier in the position of the upstream near the carrier stop banknote discharge | release part and the position of the downstream near the upstream carrier standby part. Storage facilities.   A facility for transporting and storing banknotes at a game arcade, in which a plurality of gaming machines and lending machines as banknote input devices are arranged side by side on the island of the amusement hall, A common duct is provided so that the bills inserted into the left and right lending machines are sent out to different positions in the bill passage of the duct with a bill insertion device connected to the lending machine. The banknote conveyance storage equipment in any one of Claims 1-9.

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