JP2021114333A - Bill processing machine - Google Patents

Abstract

To provide a bill processing machine capable of shortening a processing time of storage processing at the time of deposit confirmation and suppressing the occurrence of jamming.SOLUTION: The bill processing machine includes control means 71 that stores bills input to a deposit unit 20 in a plurality of temporary storage area units 47 on the basis of an identification result of an identification unit 31 at the time of deposit processing, and stores overflow bills, which cannot be stored in the temporary storage area unit 47 in a predetermined storage state, in a storage cassette unit 51 when at least one of the plurality of temporary storage area units 47 is in the predetermined storage state.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

Description

The present invention relates to a banknote processor.

Banknotes that are sent out from the transaction port to the cabin and identified as normal by the identification unit are temporarily stored by denomination mixing, and the temporarily stored banknotes are separated and discharged one by one, and the banknotes are stored by denomination. It also has a denomination recirculation section that separates and feeds the stored banknotes one by one. A banknote processing device is known in which when a payment confirmation instruction is input via an operation unit, the banknotes in the temporary storage unit are fed out, distributed to the denomination circulation unit, and stored (see, for example, Patent Document 1). ..

Japanese Patent No. 5866171

However, in the above device, the banknotes whose deposits have been counted are collectively temporarily stored in the temporary storage unit of the denomination mixture, and after the payment confirmation input is made by the operator, the storage process is distributed to the storage unit of each denomination. Therefore, if the amount of bills temporarily stored in the temporary storage unit is large, there is a problem that it takes a long time to store the bills to be distributed to the storage unit of each denomination. In addition, there is a problem that it is necessary to pay out from the deposit section and pay out all the temporarily stored banknotes from the temporary storage section, which increases the possibility of transport jam.

An object of the present invention is to provide a banknote processing machine capable of shortening the processing time of the storage processing at the time of confirming payment and suppressing the occurrence of jam.

In order to achieve the above object, the first aspect according to the present invention is to make it possible to pay out banknotes, a deposit section into which banknotes are inserted from outside the machine, an identification unit for identifying banknotes drawn out from the deposit section, and a banknote. A plurality of temporary storage areas that can be opened and closed at the bottom for temporary storage, and bills can be received and fed out from the temporary storage area that is provided under the temporary storage area and has an open bottom. A plurality of storage areas, a take-out part that allows the bills to be taken out of the machine, a storage cassette part that can store the bills and can pay out the stored bills, and the deposit part during the deposit process. When the inserted banknotes are stored in the plurality of temporary storage areas based on the identification result of the identification unit and at least one of the plurality of temporary storage areas is in a predetermined storage state, the predetermined storage state is reached. It is characterized by comprising a control means for storing overflow bills that cannot be stored in the temporary storage area portion of the storage state in the storage cassette portion.

According to the first aspect, the control means stores the banknotes inserted into the deposit unit in a plurality of temporary storage area units based on the identification result of the identification unit at the time of deposit processing, and also stores the bills in the plurality of temporary storage area units. When at least one of the above is in the predetermined storage state, the overflow bills that cannot be stored in the temporary storage area portion of the predetermined storage state are temporarily stored in the storage cassette portion. In this way, since the banknotes are divided into multiple pieces before the payment is confirmed and temporarily stored in the temporary storage area, the processing of the storage process at the time of payment confirmation is compared with the case where the banknotes temporarily stored by denomination mixing are distributed after the payment is confirmed. The time can be shortened and the occurrence of jam can be suppressed.

In the second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect, when the payment is confirmed, the control means puts the banknotes stored in the plurality of temporary storage areas into the plurality of storage areas with the bottom open. It is characterized in that the overflow bills of the storage cassette unit are sorted based on the identification result of the identification unit and stored in the plurality of storage area portions via the plurality of temporary storage area portions.

According to the second aspect, if there are overflow banknotes in the storage cassette unit at the time of payment confirmation, the control means distributes the overflow banknotes based on the identification result of the identification unit, and a plurality of temporary storage area units. Since the banknotes are stored in a plurality of storage areas via the above, overflow bills that could not be stored in the temporary storage area during the deposit process can also be stored in the plurality of storage areas.

A third aspect according to the present invention is that, in the first aspect, the storage cassette unit temporarily stores bills so that they can be fed out, and the bottom can be opened and closed. The control means has a batch storage area portion that is provided on the lower side and has a bottom portion that is open and receives bills from the batch temporary storage region portion so that the banknotes can be fed out. The banknotes stored in the plurality of temporary storage areas are stored in the plurality of storage areas with the bottom open, and the overflow banknotes of the storage cassette are stored in the batch temporary storage area with the bottom open. It is characterized in that it is stored in a storage area.

According to the third aspect, if there is an overflow bill in the batch temporary storage area portion of the storage cassette unit when the payment is confirmed, the control means opens the bottom of the overflow bill from the batch temporary storage area portion. Since it is stored in the batch storage area, the processing time of the storage process at the time of payment confirmation can be further shortened.

A fourth aspect according to the present invention is that, in the first aspect, the storage cassette unit temporarily stores bills so that they can be fed out, and has a batch temporary storage area portion whose bottom can be opened and closed and a batch temporary storage area portion. The control means has a batch storage area portion that is provided on the lower side and has a bottom portion that is open and receives bills from the batch temporary storage region portion so that the banknotes can be fed out. The banknotes stored in the plurality of temporary storage areas are stored in the plurality of storage areas with the bottom open, and the overflow banknotes in the storage cassette are sorted based on the identification result of the identification unit. When the next deposit transaction is instructed during a series of operations of storing the banknotes in the plurality of storage areas via the temporary storage area of the above, the series of operations is interrupted and the storage cassette unit is said to have the same operation. It is characterized in that the overflow bills remaining in the batch temporary storage area portion are temporarily stored in the batch storage area portion.

According to the fourth aspect, when the payment is confirmed, the control means stores the banknotes stored in the plurality of temporary storage areas in the plurality of storage areas with the bottom open, and also stores the overflow banknotes in the storage cassette. , When the next deposit transaction is instructed during a series of operations of sorting based on the identification result of the identification unit and storing the banknotes in the plurality of storage areas via the plurality of temporary storage areas, the series Is interrupted, and the overflow bills remaining in the collective temporary storage area of the storage cassette unit are temporarily stored in the collective storage area, so that the start of the next deposit transaction can be accelerated.

A fifth aspect according to the present invention is, in any one of the first to fourth aspects, the storage cassette unit is removable from the machine body, and the banknotes are unwound from the plurality of storage area units during the collection process. It is characterized in that it is a storage cassette unit in which bills for replenishment are loaded outside the machine.

According to the fifth aspect, the storage cassette unit that is removable from the machine body and stores banknotes in a plurality of storage areas during the collection process and is loaded with replenishment banknotes outside the machine is used for overflow banknotes. Since it is used as a storage cassette unit, it is not necessary to provide a storage cassette unit dedicated to overflow bills, and the size and cost can be reduced. In addition, many overflow banknotes can be temporarily stored.

According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a banknote processing machine capable of shortening the processing time of the storage processing at the time of confirming payment and suppressing the occurrence of jam.

It is a side sectional view schematically showing the banknote processing machine of 1st Embodiment which concerns on this invention. It is a side sectional view which shows roughly the banknote processing machine of 1st Embodiment which concerns on this invention, and shows the banknote transport route of the deposit processing by a thick line. It is a side sectional view which shows schematicly about the banknote processing machine of 1st Embodiment which concerns on this invention, and shows the banknote transport route of 1st storage processing by a thick line. It is a side sectional view which shows schematicly about the banknote processing machine of 1st Embodiment which concerns on this invention, and shows the banknote transport route of the 2nd storage processing by a thick line. It is a side sectional view which shows roughly the banknote processing machine of 1st Embodiment which concerns on this invention, and shows the banknote transport route of the return processing by a thick line. It is a side sectional view which shows roughly the banknote processing machine of 1st Embodiment which concerns on this invention, and shows the banknote transport route of the loose banknote withdrawal processing by a thick line. It is a side sectional view which shows roughly the banknote processing machine of 1st Embodiment which concerns on this invention, and shows the banknote transport route of a bundled banknote withdrawal processing by a thick line. It is a side sectional view which shows roughly the banknote processing machine of 1st Embodiment which concerns on this invention, and shows the banknote transport route of a local arrangement processing by a thick line. It is a side sectional view which shows roughly the banknote processing machine of 1st Embodiment which concerns on this invention, and shows the banknote transport route of the collection processing by a thick line. It is a side sectional view which shows roughly the banknote processing machine of 1st Embodiment which concerns on this invention, and shows the outbound route of another deposit processing with a thick line. It is a side sectional view which shows roughly the banknote processing machine of 1st Embodiment which concerns on this invention, and shows the return route of another deposit processing with a thick line. It is a side sectional view which shows schematicly about the banknote processing machine of 2nd Embodiment which concerns on this invention, and shows the direct route of a local arrangement processing by a thick line. It is a side cross-sectional view schematically showing the banknote processing machine of the second embodiment according to the present invention, and the outbound route of the route via the pool of the local rearranging processing is shown by a thick line. It is a side cross-sectional view schematically showing the banknote processing machine of the second embodiment according to the present invention, and the return route of the route via the pool of the local rearranging processing is shown by a thick line. It is a side sectional view which shows roughly the banknote processing machine of the 3rd Embodiment which concerns on this invention, and shows the banknote transport route of the loose banknote withdrawal processing by a thick line. It is a side sectional view which shows roughly the banknote processing machine of the 3rd Embodiment which concerns on this invention, and shows the loop-shaped banknote transport route of the loose banknote withdrawal processing by a thick line. The thick line indicates the storage route of the overflow bill when the overflow bill of the modification 5 of the bill processing machine of the embodiment according to the present invention is of a single denomination. The outbound route of the deposit processing of the overflow bill and the reject bill of the modification 6 of the bill processing machine according to the embodiment of the present invention is shown by a thick line. The thick line shows the storage route of the overflow banknotes when the overflow banknotes of the modification 6 of the banknote processing machine of the embodiment according to the present invention have a plurality of denominations. The thick line indicates the storage route of the overflow bill when the overflow bill of the modification 6 of the bill processing machine of the embodiment according to the present invention is of a single denomination. The outbound route of the overflow bill storage process when the overflow bill of the modification 6 of the bill processing machine of the embodiment according to the present invention is of a plurality of denominations is shown by a thick line.

<First Embodiment>
The banknote processing machine of the first embodiment according to the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. 1 to 11. The banknote processing machine 11 of the embodiment performs deposit / withdrawal processing of banknotes and the like. In the following, loose banknotes will be referred to simply as banknotes, and banknotes that are bundled with a predetermined number of binding units (100 sheets) will be referred to as bundled banknotes.

As shown in FIG. 1, the banknote processing machine 11 of the first embodiment is provided with a deposit section 20, a withdrawal return section 21 (withdrawal section), and a withdrawal reject storage 22 at the upper part on the front side of the machine body 10. There is. The withdrawal return unit 21 is provided on the upper side of the deposit unit 20, and the withdrawal reject storage 22 is provided on the upper side of the withdrawal return unit 21.

The deposit unit 20 has a shutter (not shown) that can be opened and closed. The shutter is opened and bills are inserted from outside the machine, and then the shutter is closed to feed the bills into the machine. Banknotes are collected and placed on the deposit section 20 from the bottom to the top in a posture in which the banknotes are aligned in the longitudinal direction in the left-right direction when viewed from the front side of the machine. A deposit feeding section 24 is provided which separates the banknotes collected on the section 20 one by one from the one at the lower end and feeds them into the machine at predetermined intervals. The banknotes are basically conveyed in the banknote processing machine 11 in a posture in which the lateral direction is along the conveying direction.

The deposit feeding section 24, which feeds out banknotes from the deposit section 20, abuts on the middle portion of the lowermost banknotes accumulated in the deposit section 20 in the lateral direction and kicks them out to the inside of the machine. It has a roller 24a, a feeding roller 24b that feeds out the bills kicked out by the kicking roller 24a into the machine, and a separating roller 24c that separates the bills that are fed out into the machine by the feeding roller 24b one by one. Immediately after the deposit feeding unit 24, a plurality of bills are fed in a state of being overlapped on the bills delivered from the deposit feeding unit 24, skewed in an oblique posture with respect to the transport direction, or a transport interval between adjacent bills. An inlet sensor 25 is provided that optically detects whether or not there is a transport abnormality such as a narrow near feed and whether or not there is a shape abnormality such as a stub.

The withdrawal return unit 21 has a shutter (not shown) that can be opened and closed. The shutter is closed and bills for withdrawal are drawn out from the inside of the machine. Taken out to. In other words, the withdrawal / return unit 21 makes it possible to take out the banknotes outside the machine. The withdrawal / return unit 21 also pays out banknotes that are rejected at the time of deposit processing. In the withdrawal / return unit 21, banknotes drawn out from the machine are collected and placed from the bottom to the top in a posture in which the banknotes are drawn out from the inside of the machine along the longitudinal direction in the left-right direction when viewed from the front side of the machine.

The withdrawal reject storage 22 is removable from the body 10 of the bill processing machine 11. In the withdrawal reject storage 22, banknotes drawn out from the inside of the machine are collected and placed from the bottom to the top in a posture along the longitudinal direction in the left-right direction when viewed from the front side of the machine. The withdrawal reject storage 22 is removed from the machine body 10 with the banknotes stored inside.

At the rear of the banknote processing machine 11, an identification unit 31 that identifies the authenticity of the banknotes delivered from the deposit unit 20, the denomination of the genuine banknotes, and the presence or absence of a transport abnormality such as double feeding, skewing, or near feed. Is provided. The identification unit 31 also identifies the front and back, top and bottom (top and bottom), left and right, and the like of the bill.

Behind the deposit section 20, the withdrawal return section 21, and the withdrawal reject storage 22, a plurality of, specifically, two aligning sections 35 and 36 for aligning banknotes and accumulating a predetermined number of binding units are provided. ing. Further, behind the aligning portions 35 and 36, an elevating and lowering transporting portion 37 for transporting the number of banknotes accumulated in the aligning portions 35 and 36 in units of binding is provided. Further, above the aligning portions 35 and 36, a binding portion 38 is provided in which a binding tape is wound around a binding unit number of bills collected by the aligning portions 35 and 36 and conveyed by the elevating and lowering transport portion 37 to form bundled bills. Has been done. On the front side of the binding portion 38, a bundling withdrawal portion 39 is provided so that the bundled banknotes created by the binding portion 38 can be taken out of the machine so as to be taken out. The bundle withdrawal unit 39 also has a shutter (not shown) that can be opened and closed. The shutter is closed and the bundled banknotes are fed out from the machine, and then the shutter is opened to take out the bundled banknotes to the outside of the machine. ..

At the lower part of the banknote processing machine 11, a plurality of specifically four temporary storage storages 41 (storage units) having a similar structure are arranged in the front-rear direction so as to align the top, bottom, left, and right positions. These temporary storage storages 41 are storage cassette units that can store banknotes and can feed out the stored banknotes, and are removable from the machine body 10.

In the bill processing machine 11, the temporary storage storage 41 (A) arranged at the innermost side, the temporary storage storage 41 (B) arranged second from the back, and the temporary storage storage 41 (B) arranged third from the back. The storage 41 (C) and the temporary storage storage 41 (D), which is arranged fourth from the back, are both temporarily stored before the payment is confirmed in a state where banknotes of a predetermined single denomination are accumulated from the bottom to the top. At the same time, it is stored so that it can be paid out after the payment is confirmed.

The temporary storage storage 41 (A) is a predetermined single first denomination bill (for example, a 10,000 yen note), and the temporary storage storage 41 (B) is a predetermined single second denomination bill. (For example, a 5,000-yen note), the temporary storage storage 41 (C) is a predetermined single third denomination banknote (for example, a 1,000-yen note), and the temporary storage storage 41 (D) is a predetermined one. A single fourth denomination banknote (for example, a 2,000 yen note) is stored so that it can be paid out. That is, the bill processing machine 11 has a plurality of temporary storage storages 41 for a single denomination for each denomination. It should be noted that a plurality of temporary storage storages 41 may be used, and the storage pattern is not limited to the pattern in which each of the temporary storage storages 41 stores banknotes of a single denomination. For each of the plurality of temporary storage storage 41, the storage patterns are as follows: a temporary storage storage 41 that stores banknotes of a single denomination, a temporary storage storage 41 that stores a mixture of banknotes of a predetermined plurality of denominations, and a storage storage 41. It can be appropriately selected and set from the temporary storage storage 41 that stores all denominations of banknotes in a mixed manner.

At the upper part of each of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D), banknotes are taken into each of them and accumulated from the bottom to the top, and the banknotes inside are separated from the best one and specified. A take-in / pay-out portion 42 is provided which pays out at intervals of. Each of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) has a flapper 43 (bottom) that can be raised and closed to partition the internal space for storing banknotes up and down, and an elevator 44 that moves up and down in the internal space. Is provided.

The take-in delivery section 42 abuts on the middle portion of the banknotes at the highest position among the banknotes accumulated on the flapper 43 or the elevator 44 in the lateral direction, and kicks the banknotes out of the temporary storage storage 41. The kicking roller 42a, the feeding roller 42b for feeding out the bills kicked out by the kicking roller 42a to the outside of the temporary storage storage 41, and the bills to be paid out to the outside of the temporary storage storage 41 by the feeding roller 42b are separated one by one. It has a separation roller 42c. The feeding roller 42b rotates in the direction opposite to that at the time of feeding, so that the bills are sandwiched between the separating rollers 42c and the rotating rollers 42c and taken into the temporary storage storage 41.

The flapper 43 has a pair of horizontally arranged lifting support shafts 43a and a pair of plate-shaped flapper main bodies 43b. One flapper main body 43b is supported by one elevating support shaft 43a, and can rotate around the elevating support shaft 43a. The other flapper main body 43b is supported by the other elevating support shaft 43a, and can rotate around the elevating support shaft 43a. When the flapper 43 is in the closed state, one flapper main body 43b extends horizontally from one elevating support shaft 43a toward the other elevating support shaft 43a, and the other flapper main body 43b extends from the other elevating support shaft 43a. It extends horizontally toward one of the elevating support shafts 43a.

When the flapper 43 is in the open state, one flapper main body 43b rotates 90 degrees with respect to the closed state and extends vertically downward from one elevating support shaft 43a, and the other flapper main body 43b is closed. It rotates 90 degrees with respect to the state and extends vertically downward from the other lifting support shaft 43a. In the flapper 43, the pair of elevating support shafts 43a are always raised and lowered at the same height, and the pair of flapper main bodies 43b are synchronously opened and synchronously closed. Each of the flappers 43 of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) is driven by an individual drive mechanism, and is independently controlled to move up and down and open / close.

When the flapper 43 is in the closed state, the temporary storage storage 41 provided with the flapper 43 is divided into a temporary storage area 47 above the flapper 43 including the flapper 43 and a storage area 48 below the flapper 43. do. In other words, the temporary storage storage 41 is vertically divided into a temporary storage area in the upper region and a storage area in the lower region by the flapper 43. In other words, the temporary storage storage 41 is divided into a temporary storage area 47, which is a temporary storage area, and a storage area 48, which is a storage area immediately below the temporary storage area 47, by the flapper 43.

When the flapper 43 is in the closed state, the flapper 43 constitutes the bottom portion of the temporary storage area portion 47, and the bills drawn out from the take-in / delivery portion 42 are placed and accumulated from the bottom to the top. At that time, the flapper 43 descends according to the amount of banknotes delivered from the take-in delivery unit 42. Further, the flapper 43 raises the banknote at the uppermost position of the placed banknote and brings it into contact with the kicking roller 42a of the take-in feeding unit 42. In this state, the take-in and pay-out unit 42 separates the banknotes one by one and pays them out from the temporary storage area 47. At that time, the flapper 43 rises according to the amount of banknotes drawn out from the take-in delivery unit 42.

The flapper 43 opens the bills temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 47, so that the elevator 44 or the elevator 44 of the storage area 48 directly below the temporary storage storage 41 provided in the same temporary storage area 47 as the temporary storage area 47 is opened. It is placed on a bill placed on the elevator 44. That is, when the flapper 43 of the temporary storage storage 41 (A) is opened, the banknotes temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (A) are stored in the temporary storage storage 41 (A). It is stored in the area portion 48. When the flapper 43 of the temporary storage storage 41 (B) is opened, the banknotes temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (B) are stored in the storage area portion of the temporary storage storage 41 (B). Store in 48. When the flapper 43 of the temporary storage storage 41 (C) is opened, the banknotes temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (C) are stored in the storage area portion of the temporary storage storage 41 (C). Store in 48. When the flapper 43 of the temporary storage storage 41 (D) is opened, the banknotes temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (D) are stored in the storage area portion of the temporary storage storage 41 (D). Store in 48.

When the flapper 43 is in the open state, the temporary storage area 47 and the storage area 48 of the temporary storage storage 41 provided with the flapper 43 are in a continuous state. In this state, when the elevator 44 of the storage area portion 48 rises, the elevator 44 brings the bill at the highest position among the placed bills into contact with the kicking roller 42a of the take-out portion 42. In this state, the take-in and pay-out unit 42 separates the bills one by one and pays them out from the storage area 48. At that time, the elevator 44 rises according to the amount of banknotes delivered from the take-in delivery unit 42. Each elevator 44 of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) is driven by an individual drive mechanism, and is independently controlled to move up and down and open / close.

As described above, the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) have temporary storage area portions 47 for a plurality of denominations. The temporary storage area 47 for each denomination is to temporarily store banknotes of a single denomination so that they can be taken in and fed out, and the flapper 43, which is the bottom of each, can be opened and closed. Further, the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) are provided directly under the temporary storage area 47 for the same denomination, and the temporary storage area for the same denomination with the flapper 43 opened. It has a plurality of storage area 48s for each denomination, which receive bills from 47 and store them so that they can be paid out.

In the lower part of the bill processing machine 11, on the front side of the temporary storage storage 41 (D), bills that are removable from the machine 10 and are fed out from the storage area 48 of each denomination at the time of collection processing are taken in and stored. A storage cassette unit 51 is provided as a collective temporary storage unit in which replenishment bills are loaded outside the machine during the replenishment process and the loaded bills are fed out. The storage cassette unit 51 can store banknotes and can feed out the stored banknotes. The storage cassette unit 51 is arranged in the front-rear direction with the temporary storage storage units 41 (A) to 41 (D) of each type aligned in the vertical and horizontal positions.

The storage cassette unit 51 stores banknotes so that they can be taken in and can be fed out. At the upper part of the storage cassette section 51, the banknotes are taken in and the banknotes inside are separated one by one from the one at the highest position at a predetermined interval. A take-in / pay-out portion 52 that is opened and pay-out is provided. The storage cassette section 51 is provided with an elevator 53 that moves up and down in the internal space. Here, the storage cassette unit 51 is not provided with flappers that partition the internal space vertically, such as the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D).

The take-in delivery section 52 abuts on the middle portion of the banknotes at the highest position among the banknotes accumulated on the elevator 53 in the lateral direction, and kicks the banknotes out of the storage cassette section 51 with the kick roller 52a. It also has a feeding roller 52b that feeds out the bills kicked out by the kicking roller 52a to the outside of the storage cassette section 51, and a separating roller 52c that separates the bills that are fed out of the storage cassette section 51 by the feeding roller 52b one by one. is doing. The feeding roller 52b rotates in the direction opposite to that at the time of feeding, so that the bill is sandwiched between the separating roller 52c and the rotating roller 52c and taken into the storage cassette section 51.

When the bill-taking-out feeding section 52 of the storage cassette section 51 is fed out of the storage cassette section 51, the elevator 53 uses the kicking roller 52a of the banknote feeding-out section 52 at the highest position among the placed banknotes. To abut. In this state, the take-in and feeding unit 52 separates and pays out the bills one by one. At that time, the elevator 53 rises according to the amount of banknotes delivered from the take-in delivery unit 52. Further, when the take-in feeding unit 52 feeds the banknotes into the storage cassette section 51, the feeding roller 52b rotates in the opposite direction to the above to feed the banknotes onto the elevator 53. At that time, the elevator 53 descends according to the amount of banknotes delivered from the take-in delivery unit 52.

Inside the banknote processing machine 11, a transport unit 61 for transporting banknotes including the banknotes delivered from the deposit section 20 by the deposit delivery section 24 is provided so as to appropriately connect the respective sections. The transport unit 61 basically moves the banknote in a posture along the transport direction in the lateral direction.

The transport unit 61 transports the banknotes of the deposit unit 20 provided at the front of the machine 10 toward the identification unit 31 provided at the rear of the machine 10, and further, a storage cassette provided at the front of the machine 10. It has a transport path 61A for transporting to the section 51. The transport path 61A extends rearward from the deposit feeding section 24 of the deposit section 20 to between the transport path 61J and the transport path 61M, which will be described later, then extends downward, and then extends rearward to identify the identification section 31. It folds forward on the lower side, extends forward, extends downward from the front end of the bill processing machine 11, and is connected to the take-in and pay-out portion 52 of the storage cassette portion 51.

Further, the transport section 61 is a transport path that branches downward from between the connection position to the storage cassette section 51 in the transport path 61A and the identification section 31 and is connected to the take-in / delivery section 42 of the temporary storage storage 41 (A). A transport path 61D that branches downward from between the 61C and the connection position to the storage cassette section 51 in the transport path 61A and the branch position of the transport path 61C and is connected to the take-in delivery section 42 of the temporary storage storage 41 (B). And the transport path 61E that branches downward from between the connection position to the storage cassette section 51 in the transport path 61A and the branch position of the transport path 61D and is connected to the take-in delivery section 42 of the temporary storage storage 41 (C). , A transport path 61F that branches downward from between the connection position to the storage cassette section 51 in the transport path 61A and the branch position of the transport path 61E and is connected to the take-in delivery section 42 of the temporary storage storage 41 (D). Have.

Further, the transport section 61 is a lower portion of a portion of the transport path 61A that branches upward from the most storage cassette section 51 side and then extends rearward from the deposit section 20 of the transport path 61A toward the identification section 31 and extends downward. A transport path 61H and a transport path 61G that branch upward from a position between the branch position of the transport path 61F of the transport path 61A and the branch position of the transport path 61G and are connected to an intermediate position of the transport path 61G. There is a transport path 61J that branches upward from the position between the connection position of the transport path 61H and the connection position to the transport path 61A and is connected between the connection position of the transport path 61G in the transport path 61A and the inlet sensor 25. is doing.

Further, the transfer unit 61 branches rearward from between the connection position of the transfer path 61G and the connection position of the transfer path 61J in the transfer path 61A, then extends upward, and then extends forward to return the withdrawal unit. It has a transport path 61K connected to 21 and a transport path 61L branched from an intermediate position above the transport path 61K and connected to the withdrawal reject storage 22.

Further, the transport section 61 branches upward from between the connection position of the transport path 61G in the transport path 61A and the identification section 31, and has a branch position from the transport path 61A in the transport path 61K and a branch position of the transport path 61L. It has a transport path 61M connected between them, and a transport path 61N that branches from between the branch position of the transport path 61M in the transport path 61A and the identification unit 31 and is connected to an intermediate position of the transport path 61M. The transport path 61N is provided with a front / back reversing portion 63 for reversing the front and back of the bill.

Further, the transport section 61 includes a transport path 61P that branches rearward from between the branch position of the transport path 61L in the transport path 61K and the confluence position of the transport path 61M and is connected to the alignment portion 35, and the transport path 61P in the transport path 61K. It has a transport path 61Q that branches rearward from between the branch position of the above and the confluence position of the transport path 61M and connects to the alignment portion 36.

The identification unit 31 identifies the banknotes to be transported by the transport unit 61, and the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) and the storage cassette unit 51 can deliver the banknotes identified by the identification unit 31. Store in.

The banknote processing machine 11 has an operation display unit 70 that is input to the operation by the operator and displays to the operator, and a control unit 71 (control means) that controls the entire banknote processing machine 11. There is.

Next, each process of the banknote processor 11 of the first embodiment will be described.

When in the standby state, all of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) have the temporary storage area 47 empty, and the storage area 48 stores appropriate banknotes. Further, when in the standby state, the flapper 43 is located at a predetermined standby position at the upper part where bills can be received in the closed state, and the elevator 44 is located at the lowermost standby position. Further, when in the standby state, the storage cassette unit 51 is in an empty state, and the elevator 53 of the storage cassette unit 51 is located at a predetermined standby position at the upper part where bills can be received.

[Payment processing]
The thick line in FIG. 2 shows a banknote transport route for deposit processing in which banknotes inserted into the deposit unit 20 from outside the machine are identified, counted, and temporarily stored. That is, when the operation display unit 70 is selected for the deposit process, the control unit 71 starts the deposit process, and the deposit delivery unit 24, the transport unit 61, and the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D). Drives the take-in and take-out parts 42 of each of the above and the take-in and pay-out parts 52 of the storage cassette part 51. Then, the deposit feeding unit 24 separates the banknotes inserted into the deposit unit 20 one by one by the kicking roller 24a and the separating roller 24c in order from the lowest one, and at a predetermined interval. The banknotes that have been unwound will be transported by the transport path 61A. Immediately after the banknotes are fed out from the deposit feeding unit 24, the inlet sensor 25 detects whether or not there is a transport abnormality and whether or not there is a shape abnormality.

For abnormal banknotes detected by the inlet sensor 25 to have a transport abnormality or a shape abnormality, the control unit 71 is at the end of the transport path 61A on the deposit section 20 side, as shown by the thick solid line to the thick alternate long and short dash line in FIG. The unit and the transport paths 61M and 61K transport the money to the withdrawal / return unit 21. That is, an abnormal bill that is detected by the inlet sensor 25 to have a transport abnormality or a shape abnormality may branch from the transport path 61A from the deposit unit 20 to the identification unit 31, and intersect with the transport path 61A after the branch. It is transported to the withdrawal / return unit 21 without being transported to the identification unit 31 through the transport paths 61M and 61K that are not provided. On the other hand, the banknotes for which neither the transfer abnormality nor the shape abnormality is detected by the inlet sensor 25 are conveyed to the identification unit 31 through the transfer path 61A as shown by the thick solid line in FIG. Then, the identification unit 31 identifies and counts the banknotes during this transportation, and the control unit 71 normally transports the banknotes identified as acceptable by the identification unit 31, that is, the genuine banknotes of the denomination that can be handled. As shown by the thick solid line in FIG. 2, the banknotes are sorted by denomination along the transport paths 61C, 61D, 61E, 61F.

As a result, the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) of each denomination collect banknotes on the flapper 43 in the standby position in the closed state of the temporary storage area 47 by the take-in delivery unit 42, respectively. It will be. That is, among the banknotes identified as acceptable, the control unit 71 stores the banknotes of the first denomination (for example, 10,000-yen banknotes) in the temporary storage area section 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (A) for the second denomination. Temporary storage area 47 for banknotes (for example, 5,000 yen note) and temporary storage area for third denomination banknotes (for example, 1,000 yen note) in temporary storage 41 (B) Section 47 temporarily stores banknotes of the fourth denomination (for example, 2,000 yen bills) in the temporary storage area section 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (D).

Here, the control unit 71 monitors the amount of banknotes stored in each of the temporary storage areas 41 (A) to 41 (D) of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D), and stores the banknotes with the flapper 43 closed. The amount will be lowered according to the amount. Further, the control unit 71 monitors whether or not the flapper 43 has been lowered to the lowest openable position where the flapper 43 can be opened, and when the flapper 43 is lowered to the lowest openable position, the temporary storage area 47 is moved. As shown by the thick solid line in FIG. 2, the banknotes of the denomination to be stored in the temporary storage area 47 after determining that the state is full, which is the predetermined storage state, are stored in the storage cassette section 51 in the transport path 61A. Temporarily store on the elevator 53 of. The control unit 71 monitors the stored amount of banknotes in the storage cassette unit 51, and lowers the elevator 53 by the amount corresponding to the stored amount. Here, at the lowest openable position of each of the flappers 43 of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D), the flapper 43 positions the elevator 44 at the lowest standby position directly under the flapper 43. It is a position where it can be opened without touching the banknotes stored in the storage area 48, and therefore the height according to the amount of banknotes stored in the storage area 48 below the flapper 43. It will be in the position.

When the control unit 71 determines that the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (A) is full, for example, it is an overflow bill that cannot be stored in the full temporary storage area 47. Banknotes of one denomination are temporarily stored in the storage cassette section 51. Further, in the control unit 71, for example, after the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (A) is full, the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (B) is full. If it is determined that the banknotes are overflow bills that cannot be stored in the temporary storage area 47 in the full state, the subsequent second denomination bills are added to the first denomination bills and temporarily stored in the storage cassette section 51. Further, the control unit 71 is, for example, a temporary storage storage after the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (A) and the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (B) are full. When it is determined that the temporary storage area 47 of 41 (C) is full, the overflow banknotes that cannot be stored in the full temporary storage area 47, and the subsequent third denomination banknotes are used as the first denomination and the third denomination banknote. In addition to the banknotes of the second denomination, they are temporarily stored in the storage cassette section 51.

That is, the control unit 71 temporarily stores the banknotes inserted into the deposit unit 20 at the time of deposit processing, based on the identification result of the identification unit 31, in the temporary storage area units 41 (A) to 41 (D) of each denomination. When at least one of the temporary storage area 47s of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) of each denomination is full, which is a predetermined storage state, the storage is stored in 47. The overflow bills that cannot be stored in the temporary storage area 47 are temporarily stored in the storage cassette 51. When there are overflow bills of a plurality of denominations, the storage cassette unit 51 temporarily stores these overflow bills in a denomination mixture. The storage cassette section 51 has a larger storage capacity for banknotes than the temporary storage area sections 47 of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D). In the embodiment, the predetermined storage state is a full state in which the stored amount of banknotes is a predetermined full amount, and the banknotes in an amount exceeding the full amount are defined as overflow banknotes, but the present invention is not limited to this. That is, the predetermined storage state may be a state in which the storage amount of the banknotes is a predetermined predetermined storage amount, and the banknotes in an amount exceeding the predetermined storage amount are the overflow banknotes. For example, a predetermined storage state may be a near full state in which the stored amount is a near full amount smaller than the full amount by a predetermined amount, and a bill having an amount exceeding this near full amount may be regarded as an overflow bill.

On the other hand, among the banknotes paid out from the deposit unit 20 by the deposit delivery unit 24, the control unit 71 double-feeds the banknotes identified as unacceptable by the identification unit 31, that is, the banknotes with poor denomination identification that cannot identify the denomination. As shown by a thick solid line, a thick dashed line, and a thick alternate long and short dash line in FIG. It is transported to the withdrawal return unit 21 through the transport path 61M and the transport path 61K.

At this time, the banknotes exiting the deposit section 20 and heading for the identification unit 31 on the transport path 61A and the banknotes from the transport paths 61H and 61G to the transport path 61M through the transport path 61A are one of the transport paths 61A. Since the parts will be used in common, there is a possibility that they will intersect at this part. Therefore, when the identification unit 31 determines that the banknotes cannot be accepted, the control unit 71 determines the timing of intersection with the banknotes, stops the deposit feeding unit 24, and interrupts the feeding of the banknotes from the deposit unit 20. do. That is, at the time when the rejected banknotes determined to be unacceptable by the identification unit 31 enter the transport path 61A from the transport path 61G at the latest, there are no banknotes on the deposit section 20 side of the branch position of the transport path 61M of the transport path 61A. As described above, the deposit delivery unit 24 is stopped. When the rejected banknotes determined to be unacceptable by the identification unit 31 then enter the transfer path 61M from the transfer path 61A, the control unit 71 restarts the drive of the deposit delivery unit 24.

By performing the above deposit processing operation, the banknotes in the deposit section 20 are eliminated, and all the banknotes drawn out from the deposit section 20 are stored in the temporary storage area section 47 of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D). When the banknotes are transported to either the storage cassette unit 51 or the withdrawal / return unit 21, the control unit 71 opens the shutter of the withdrawal / return unit 21 to make it possible to take out banknotes from the withdrawal / return unit 21 and identify the banknotes. The operation display unit displays the number of denominations and the total amount of banknotes temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 47 and the storage cassette section 51 of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D), which are judged to be acceptable by the unit 31. Display on 70. Then, the control unit 71 is in a state of waiting for the input of the payment confirmation operation and the payment cancellation operation to the operation display unit 70, and ends the payment process.

[First storage process]
After the deposit processing, when the deposit confirmation operation is input to the operation display unit 70, the control unit 71 confirms the deposit and at the same time, the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) are stored in the deposit process. First, the first storage process of storing the bills temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 47 in the storage area 48 of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) is performed. The thick line in FIG. 3 shows the banknote transport route of the first storage process.

In the first storage process, the control unit 71 is at the lowest position where the flapper 43 can be opened only in the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) for which bills are temporarily stored. Then, the flapper 43 is opened, and the banknotes on the flapper 43 are delivered to the elevator 44 of the storage area 48 or the banknotes on the elevator 44. That is, in the first storage process, the banknotes are stored from the temporary storage area 47 to the corresponding storage area 48 in the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) without going through the transport unit 61. In addition to lowering the flapper 43 before opening it to position it at the lowest openable position and then opening it, the flapper 43 is stopped and the elevator 53 is raised to the highest position within the openable range of the flapper 43. You may open the flapper 43 after that. Further, the flapper 43 may be opened after the flapper 43 and the elevator 53 are both moved and brought closer to each other within a range in which the flapper 43 can be opened.

Specifically, when the banknotes of the first denomination are temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (A), the control unit 71 temporarily stores the first denomination of the temporary storage area 47. Is stored in the storage area 48 of the temporary storage storage 41 (A) for the same denomination. Further, when the banknotes of the second denomination are temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (B), the banknotes of the second denomination of the temporary storage area 47 are used for the same denomination. It is stored in the storage area 48 of the temporary storage storage 41 (B). Further, when the banknotes of the third denomination are temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (C), the banknotes of the third denomination of the temporary storage area 47 are used for the same denomination. It is stored in the storage area 48 of the temporary storage storage 41 (C). Further, when the banknotes of the fourth denomination are temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (D), the banknotes of the fourth denomination of the temporary storage area 47 are used for the same denomination. It is stored in the storage area 48 of the temporary storage storage 41 (D).

Also in the first storage process, the lowest openable position of the flapper 43 is set according to the amount of banknotes stored in the storage area 48 below the flapper 43. When the flapper 43 is opened and the banknotes on the flapper 43 are delivered to the elevator 44 of the storage area 48 or the banknotes on the elevator 44, the control unit 71 receives the overflow banknotes stored in the storage cassette unit 51 in the deposit processing. Judge the presence or absence of. Then, when there is no overflow bill in the storage cassette section 51, the control section 71 returns the flapper 43, which has delivered the bill from the temporary storage area section 47 to the storage area section 48, to the standby position, closes the storage process, and ends the storage process. .. That is, when there is no overflow bill temporarily stored in the storage cassette section 51 in the deposit process, only the first storage process is performed as the storage process. On the other hand, when there is a banknote temporarily stored in the storage cassette section 51 in the deposit process, the flapper 43 that has delivered the banknote from the temporary storage area section 47 to the storage area section 48 performs the second storage process described later while it is in the open state. ..

As described above, when the payment is confirmed, the control unit 71 opens the flapper 43 of each of the temporary storage areas 41 (A) to 41 (D) of each denomination and sets the temporary storage area of each denomination. The banknotes stored in the section 47 are stored in the storage area section 48 for the same denomination immediately below each of the temporary storage area sections 47 of each denomination.

Here, when banknotes are temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 47 of a plurality of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D), the control unit 71 is at the lowest position where the flapper 43 can be opened. The flappers 43 are opened and operated in order from the one located in, but these flappers 43 may be opened and operated at the same time.

In the first storage process, the flapper 43 can be opened for all the temporary storage areas 47 of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) regardless of whether or not the banknotes are temporarily stored. When the banknotes are located on the flapper 43 after being positioned in the lower position and then opened, the banknotes may be operated so as to be delivered to the elevator 44 of the storage area 48 or the banknotes on the elevator 44.

[Second storage process]
The thick line in FIG. 4 indicates the banknotes in the second storage process in which the overflow bills temporarily stored in the storage cassette section 51 are distributed and stored in the respective storage area sections 48 of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D). Shows the transport route. In the second storage process, the control unit 71 raises the elevator 53 of the storage cassette unit 51 to bring the banknotes at the highest position on the elevator 53 into contact with the kicking roller 52a of the take-out unit 52. Further, the control unit 71 has a storage area of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D), although the flapper 43, which is the storage destination of the bills temporarily stored in the storage cassette unit 51, is in the open state. The elevator 44 of the unit 48 is raised to a position where the banknotes delivered from the take-in / delivery unit 42 can be accepted according to the amount of banknotes stored in the storage area 48. At the same time, the control unit 71 drives the take-in / take-out unit 52, the transport unit 61, and the take-in / take-out unit 42 of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D). For all of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D), the elevator 44 of the storage area 48 is taken in and delivered with the flapper 43 open regardless of whether or not overflow bills are stored. The banknotes drawn out from the unit 42 may be raised to an acceptable position.

Then, the kicking roller 52a kicks out the banknotes of the storage cassette section 51 from the one at the uppermost position, and the feeding roller 52b and the separating roller 52c separate the banknotes one by one and pay them out at a predetermined interval. Is transported to the identification unit 31 along the transport paths 61A, 61G, 61A as shown by a thick solid line in FIG. 4, and is identified by the identification unit 31. Then, the control unit 71 stores the normal banknotes identified as normal by the identification unit 31 with the corresponding ones of the transport paths 61A, 61C to 61F based on the identification result, in the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (A) to 41 ( Transport to the corresponding item in D). As a result, among the banknotes temporarily stored in the storage cassette unit 51, the normal banknotes identified as normal by the identification unit 31 are stored in the storage area 48 of the corresponding items in the temporary storage storage units 41 (A) to 41 (D). The flapper 43 is stored via the temporary storage area 47 in the open state. That is, in the second storage process, the banknotes of the storage cassette unit 51 are stored in the storage area 48 of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) via the transport unit 61.

Specifically, when the banknotes drawn out from the storage cassette unit 51 are normal banknotes of the first denomination, the control unit 71 stores the banknotes in the storage area 48 of the temporary storage storage 41 (A). Therefore, when the banknotes drawn out from the storage cassette unit 51 are normal banknotes of the second denomination, the banknotes are stored in the storage area 48 of the temporary storage storage 41 (B). Further, when the banknotes drawn out from the storage cassette unit 51 are normal banknotes of the third denomination, the control unit 71 will store the banknotes in the storage area 48 of the temporary storage storage 41 (C). When the banknotes drawn out from the storage cassette unit 51 are normal banknotes of the fourth denomination, the banknotes are stored in the storage area 48 of the temporary storage storage 41 (D). Also at this time, the control unit 71 lowers the elevator 44 according to the amount of banknotes transported to the respective storage area 48 of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D).

In this way, all the banknotes temporarily stored in the storage cassette unit 51 are stored in the storage area 48 of any of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) or the withdrawal reject storage as described later. When stored in 22, the control unit 71 lowers the elevator 53 of all the storage area portions 48 of the temporary storage storage 41 (A) to 41 (D) to the lowest standby position, and then temporarily stores the storage. All the flappers 43 of 41 (A) to 41 (D) are returned to the standby position, closed, and the storage process is completed. That is, when there is an overflow bill temporarily stored in the storage cassette section 51 in the deposit process, both the first storage process and the second storage process are performed as the storage process.

Here, among the banknotes drawn out from the storage cassette unit 51 during the second storage process, the identification unit 31 can identify the banknote as a transport abnormality such as double feed, skew, or near feed, or the denomination cannot be identified. Rejected banknotes identified as poor species identification are transported to the withdrawal reject storage 22 by the transport paths 61A, 61H, 61G, 61M, 61K, 61L and rejected withdrawal, as shown by the thick solid line and the thick broken line in FIG. Store in storage 22.

At this time, the banknotes drawn out from the storage cassette unit 51 and heading for the identification unit 31 in the transport paths 61A, 61G, 61A and the rejected banknotes heading for the withdrawal reject storage 22 in the transport paths 61A, 61H, 61G, 61A, 61M , Since a part of the transport paths 61G and 61A will be used in common, there is a possibility of intersection at this part. Therefore, when the identification unit 31 detects the rejected banknote, the control unit 71 stops the take-in / delivery unit 52 of the storage cassette unit 51 at the timing of intersection with the banknote, and the banknote from the storage cassette unit 51. Is interrupted. That is, when the rejected banknotes detected by the identification unit 31 enter the transport path 61G from the transport path 61H at the latest, there are no banknotes on the storage cassette section 51 side of the branch positions of the transport paths 61M of the transport paths 61A, 61G, 61A. As described above, the take-in delivery unit 52 is stopped. Further, when the rejected banknote detected by the identification unit 31 enters the transport path 61M from the transport path 61A, the drive of the take-in / feed-out section 52 is restarted.

As described above, when both the first storage process and the second storage process are performed as the storage process when the payment is confirmed, the control unit 71 temporarily stores the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) for each denomination. The bills stored in the storage area 47 are stored in the storage area 48 of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) of each denomination with the flapper 43 open, and the overflow bills in the storage cassette section 51 are stored. Temporary storage and storage of each denomination via the temporary storage area 47 of the denomination temporary storage storage 41 (A) to 41 (D) in which the flapper 43 is in the open state, sorted based on the identification result of the identification unit 31. It is stored in the storage area 48 of the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D).

[Return processing]
After the deposit processing, when the deposit cancellation operation to the operation display unit 70 is input, the control unit 71 does not confirm the deposit, and the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) are stored in the deposit process. All the banknotes temporarily stored in the temporary storage area section 47 and the storage cassette section 51 are returned to the withdrawal return section 21. The thick line in FIG. 5 shows the banknote transport route for this return process.

In the return process, the control unit 71 raises the flapper 43 for the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) for which bills are temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 47, and the flapper 43 is raised. Among the above bills, the bill at the highest position is brought into contact with the kicking roller 42a of the take-out portion 42. Further, when there is a banknote temporarily stored in the storage cassette unit 51, the control unit 71 raises the elevator 53 and hits the kicking roller 52a of the take-out unit 52 at the highest position on the elevator 53. Get in touch. At the same time, the control unit 71 drives the transport unit 61 to temporarily store the take-in / take-out units 42 of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) and the take-in / take-out parts 52 of the storage cassette unit 51. Drive the banknotes that have the bills in the appropriate order.

For example, when there is a bill temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (A), the take-in delivery unit 42 of the temporary storage storage 41 (A) is the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (A). The banknotes are kicked out from the highest position by the kicking roller 42a, separated by the feeding roller 42b and the separating roller 42c, and are fed out at predetermined intervals. As shown by, the money is transported to the withdrawal / return unit 21 through the transport paths 61C, 61A, 61K. Further, when there is a bill temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (B), the bill in the temporary storage area 47 is fed out in the same manner and discharged in the transport paths 61D, 61A, 61K. It is transported to the money return unit 21. If there are bills temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (C), the bills in the temporary storage area 47 are fed out in the same manner, and the withdrawal is returned through the transport paths 61E, 61A, 61K. Transport to section 21. If there are bills temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (D), the bills in the temporary storage area 47 are fed out in the same manner, and the withdrawal is returned through the transport paths 61F, 61A, 61K. Transport to section 21.

Further, when there is an overflow bill temporarily stored in the storage cassette section 51, the take-in delivery section 52 of the storage cassette section 51 kicks the banknote of the storage cassette section 51 from the highest position by the kicking roller 52a. The payout rollers 52b and the separation roller 52c separate the banknotes one by one and pay them out at predetermined intervals, and the paid out banknotes are conveyed to the withdrawal return unit 21 through the transport paths 61A and 61K. That is, when the payment is canceled, the control unit 71 sends the banknotes temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 47 and the storage cassette 51 of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) of each denomination to the withdrawal / return unit 21. Let it pay out. At the end of the return process, the control unit 71 opens the shutter of the withdrawal return unit 21 so that the banknotes can be taken out from the withdrawal return unit 21. As a result, among the banknotes inserted into the deposit unit 20 in the deposit process, all the banknotes other than the banknotes delivered to the withdrawal / return unit 21 in the deposit process are paid out to the withdrawal / return unit 21 in the return process.

[Rose banknote withdrawal processing]
The thick line in FIG. 6 indicates that the bills are withdrawn from the designated denominations of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) based on the loose bill withdrawal operation input to the operation display unit 70. Shows the banknote transport route for the withdrawal of loose banknotes. That is, in the bulk withdrawal process, the control unit 71 drives the transport unit 61 and stores it in the storage area 48 of the temporary storage storage 41 (A) based on the input number of withdrawals for each denomination. When paying out the bills of the first denomination, the flapper 43 of the temporary storage storage 41 (A) is opened and operated at the standby position, and then the elevator 44 of the temporary storage storage 41 (A) is raised to this elevator. Among the banknotes placed on the 44, the banknote at the highest position is brought into contact with the kicking roller 42a of the take-in feeding section 42 of the temporary storage storage 41 (A). At the same time, the take-in and pay-out unit 42 is driven to kick out the banknotes placed on the elevator 44 of the temporary storage storage 41 (A) from the highest position by the kick-out roller 42a, and the pay-out roller 42b and the separation roller. At 42c, the banknotes are separated one by one and fed out at predetermined intervals. As shown by the thick solid line in FIG. Normal banknotes that are transported in the opposite direction and do not require front-back reversal based on the identification result of the identification unit 31 are directly delivered to the withdrawal / return unit 21 on the transport paths 61A and 61K, and normal banknotes that require front-back reversal are transported to the transport path. After flipping the front and back from 61A via the transport path 61N at the front / back reversing section 63, the money is transported to the withdrawal return section 21 at the transport paths 61M and 61K, respectively. As a result, the normal banknotes of the first denomination based on the loose banknote withdrawal operation are sent out to the withdrawal / return unit 21 while arranging the front and back sides. For rejected banknotes other than normal banknotes, which the identification unit 31 has identified as a transfer abnormality or a denomination identification failure, the transfer paths 61A, 61K, 61L are shown by the thick solid line to the thick broken line in FIG. It is transported to the withdrawal reject storage 22 and stored in the withdrawal reject storage 22.

Further, in the bulk withdrawal process, when the banknotes of the second denomination stored in the storage area 48 of the temporary storage storage 41 (B) are to be paid out, the control unit 71 similarly performs the temporary storage storage 41. After opening the flapper 43 of (B), the elevator 44 of the temporary storage storage 41 (B) is raised, and the banknotes placed on the elevator 44 are taken in and out in order from the highest position. It will be delivered to the identification unit 31 through the transport paths 61D and 61A, and based on the identification result of the identification unit 31, it will be transported to the withdrawal return unit 21 while aligning the front and back sides.

Further, in the bulk withdrawal process, when the banknotes of the third denomination stored in the storage area 48 of the temporary storage storage 41 (C) are paid out, the control unit 71 similarly performs the temporary storage storage 41. After opening the flapper 43 of (C), the elevator 44 of the temporary storage storage 41 (C) is raised, and the banknotes placed on the elevator 44 are taken in and out in order from the highest position. It will be delivered to the identification unit 31 through the transport paths 61E and 61A, and based on the identification result of the identification unit 31, it will be transported to the withdrawal return unit 21 while arranging the front and back sides.

Further, in the bulk withdrawal process, when the banknotes of the fourth denomination stored in the storage area 48 of the temporary storage storage 41 (D) are paid out, the control unit 71 similarly performs the temporary storage storage 41. After opening the flapper 43 of (D), the elevator 44 of the temporary storage storage 41 (D) is raised, and the banknotes placed on the elevator 44 are taken in and out in order from the highest position. It will be delivered to the identification unit 31 through the transport paths 61F and 61A, and based on the identification result of the identification unit 31, it will be transported to the withdrawal return unit 21 while arranging the front and back sides.

As described above, the banknotes of the number of withdrawals of the input denomination are sent out to the withdrawal return unit 21 while arranging the front and back sides according to the denomination. At the end of the loose bill withdrawal process, the control unit 71 opens the shutter of the withdrawal return unit 21 to enable the bills to be taken out from the withdrawal return unit 21.

[Bundled banknote withdrawal processing]
The thick line in FIG. 7 binds banknotes from the designated denominations of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) based on the bundled banknote withdrawal operation input to the operation display unit 70. Bundled banknotes to be withdrawn The banknote transport route for withdrawal processing is shown.

That is, in the bundled bill withdrawal process, the control unit 71 drives the transport unit 61 and stores the bundled banknotes in the storage area 48 of the temporary storage storage 41 (A) based on the input number of withdrawal bundles for each denomination. When the banknotes of the first denomination are bundled and withdrawn, after opening and operating the flapper 43 at the standby position of the temporary storage storage 41 (A), the elevator 44 of the temporary storage storage 41 (A) Is raised to bring the banknote at the highest position among the banknotes placed on the elevator 44 into contact with the kicking roller 42a of the take-in feeding section 42 of the temporary storage storage 41 (A). At the same time, the take-in and pay-out unit 42 is driven to kick out the banknotes placed on the elevator 44 of the temporary storage storage 41 (A) from the one in the highest position by the kick-out roller 42a, and the pay-out roller 42b and the separation roller. At 42c, the sheets are separated one by one and fed out at predetermined intervals.

Then, as shown by the thick solid line in FIG. 7, the drawn banknotes are conveyed to the identification unit 31 along the transport paths 61C and 61A, and based on the identification result of the identification unit 31, normal banknotes that do not need to be turned upside down are conveyed. Normal banknotes that need to be flipped on the alignment section 35 on the roads 61A, 61K, 61P are flipped on the front and back flipping sections 63 from the transport path 61A via the transport path 61N, and then on the transport paths 61M, 61K, 61P. Each is conveyed to the aligning portion 35. As a result, normal banknotes of the designated single denomination are delivered to the alignment unit 35 by the number of binding units. Rejected banknotes other than normal banknotes, which are identified by the identification unit 31 as a transport abnormality such as double feed, skew, or near feed, or as a denomination failure, are shown by a thick solid line to a thick broken line in FIG. In addition, the money is transported to the withdrawal reject storage 22 by the transport paths 61A, 61K, 61L, and is stored in the withdrawal reject storage 22. Then, the bills of the designated unit number of binding units of a single denomination are conveyed from the aligning unit 35 by the elevating and lowering transporting unit 37, bound by the binding unit 38, and delivered to the bundled withdrawal unit 39.

Here, when the designated single denomination banknotes are fed out to the alignment unit 35 by the number of binding units, if the number of withdrawal bundles of this denomination is plural, the temporary storage storage 41 (A) is continuously stored. Normal banknotes that do not need to be reversed are delivered from the area 48 to the alignment section 36 at the transport paths 61A, 61K, 61Q, and normal banknotes that need to be flipped from the front to back are delivered from the transport path 61A via the transport path 61N. After the front and back inversion portions 63 are used to invert the front and back, the transport paths 61M, 61K, and 61Q are used to transport the products to the alignment portion 36, respectively. As a result, normal banknotes of the designated single denomination are fed out to the aligning unit 36 by the number of binding units, bound by the binding unit 38, and delivered to the bundled withdrawal unit 39 in the same manner as described above. In this way, in the bundled banknote withdrawal process, when a plurality of single denominations are withdrawn, the banknotes are alternately accumulated in the alignment units 35 and 36 for each unit of binding.

In the bundled banknote withdrawal process, the above processing is performed for the specified number of bundles for each specified denomination, and for each of the specified all denominations, the specified total number of bundles is bundled. The banknotes will be paid out to the bundle withdrawal unit 39. At the end of the bundled banknote withdrawal process, the control unit 71 opens the shutter of the bundled withdrawal unit 39 to enable the bundled banknotes to be taken out from the bundled withdrawal unit 39.

[Local cleanup process]
The thick line in FIG. 8 shows a banknote transport route for local rearranging processing in which banknotes inserted into the deposit unit 20 from outside the machine are identified, counted, and bound while being transported. That is, when the operation display unit 70 performs the selection operation of the local rearranging process, the control unit 71 starts the local rearranging process and drives the deposit delivery unit 24 and the transport unit 61. Then, the deposit feeding unit 24 separates the banknotes inserted into the deposit unit 20 one by one by the kicking roller 24a and the separating roller 24c in order from the lowest one, and at a predetermined interval. The banknotes to be unwound are transported to the identification unit 31 through the transport paths 61A, 61J, 61G, 61H, and 61A, and are identified by the identification unit 31. Then, from the identification result of the identification unit 31, the normal banknotes of the denomination to be bound are arranged in the alignment unit 35 at the transport paths 61A, 61K, 61P for those that do not need to be flipped, and the transport path for those that require flipping. After inverting the front and back from 61A via the transport path 61N at the front / back reversing section 63, the balls are transported to the alignment section 35 at the transport paths 61M, 61K, 61P, respectively. As a result, normal banknotes of the designated single denomination are delivered to the alignment unit 35 by the number of binding units. From the identification result of the identification unit 31, the banknotes with abnormal transport and the banknotes other than the denomination to be bound, including the denomination indistinguishable, are rejected banknotes, as shown by the thick solid line to the thick broken line in FIG. It is paid out to the withdrawal return unit 21 by the transport paths 61A and 61K. The normal banknotes of the specified number of binding units of a single denomination are conveyed from the aligning section 35 by the elevating and lowering conveying section 37, bound by the binding section 38, and delivered to the bundling withdrawal section 39. The denomination designated as the binding target may be manually input at the time of the selection operation of the local rearranging process, or may be automatically set to the denomination first identified by the identification unit 31 in the execution of the local rearranging process. be.

When the specified number of normal banknotes of a single denomination is paid out to the aligning unit 35 by the number of binding units, if the specified number of withdrawal bundles is multiple, the banknotes will continue to be paid out from the depositing unit 20, and the reversal will occur. Unnecessary normal banknotes are flipped to the alignment section 36 on the transport paths 61A, 61K, 61Q, and normal banknotes that need to be flipped on the front and back are flipped on the front and back flip section 63 from the transport path 61A via the transport path 61N, and then transported. The roads 61M, 61K, and 61Q are conveyed to the alignment unit 36, respectively. As a result, normal banknotes of the designated single denomination are fed out to the aligning unit 36 by the number of binding units, bound by the binding unit 38, and delivered to the bundled withdrawal unit 39 in the same manner as described above. In this way, even in the local arrangement process, when a plurality of single denominations are to be withdrawn, the banknotes are alternately accumulated in the alignment units 35 and 36 for each unit of binding. At the end of the local rearranging process, the control unit 71 opens the shutters of the bundle withdrawal unit 39 and the withdrawal return unit 21 to enable the bundled banknotes and banknotes to be taken out from the bundle withdrawal unit 39 and the withdrawal return unit 21.

[Recovery process]
The thick line in FIG. 9 is a collection-processed banknote that collects banknotes from the designated denominations of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) based on the collection operation input to the operation display unit 70. Shows the transport route. That is, in the collection process, when the control unit 71 drives the transport unit 61 and collects the banknotes of the first denomination stored in the storage area 48 of the temporary storage storage 41 (A), the temporary storage is performed. After opening and operating the flapper 43 in the standby position of the storage 41 (A), the elevator 44 of the temporary storage storage 41 (A) is raised to be the highest position among the banknotes placed in the elevator 44. The banknotes are brought into contact with the kicking roller 42a of the take-in feeding section 42 of the temporary storage storage 41 (A). At the same time, the take-in and pay-out unit 42 is driven to kick out the banknotes placed on the elevator 44 of the temporary storage storage 41 (A) from the one in the highest position by the kick-out roller 42a, and the pay-out roller 42b and the separation roller. At 42c, the sheets are separated one by one and fed out at predetermined intervals. As shown by the thick solid line in FIG. 9, the drawn banknotes are transported to the identification unit 31 by the transport paths 61C and 61A, and the normal banknotes are stored in the transport paths 61A, 61G and 61A based on the identification result of the identification unit 31. It is conveyed to the cassette section 51. Rejected banknotes other than normal banknotes, which are identified as transfer abnormalities or denomination identification defects by the identification unit 31, are indicated by the transfer paths 61A, 61K, 61L as shown by the thick solid line to the thick broken line in FIG. It is transported to the withdrawal reject storage 22 and stored in the withdrawal reject storage 22.

Further, in the collection process, when collecting the banknotes of the second denomination stored in the storage area 48 of the temporary storage storage 41 (B), the control unit 71 similarly performs the temporary storage storage 41 ( After opening the flapper 43 of B), the elevator 44 of the temporary storage storage 41 (B) is raised, and the banknotes placed on the elevator 44 are taken in and out in order from the banknote at the highest position by the feeding section 42. The normal banknotes will be fed out, and the normal banknotes will be transported to the storage cassette section 51 through the transport paths 61D, 61A, 61G, 61A.

Further, in the collection process, when collecting the banknotes of the third denomination stored in the storage area portion 48 of the temporary storage storage 41 (C), the control unit 71 similarly performs the temporary storage storage 41 ( After opening the flapper 43 of C), the elevator 44 of the temporary storage storage 41 (C) is raised, and the banknotes placed on the elevator 44 are taken in and out in order from the banknote at the highest position by the feeding section 42. The normal banknotes will be fed out, and the normal banknotes will be transported to the storage cassette section 51 through the transport paths 61E, 61A, 61G, 61A.

Further, in the collection process, when collecting the banknotes of the fourth denomination stored in the storage area 48 of the temporary storage storage 41 (D), the control unit 71 similarly performs the temporary storage storage 41 ( After opening the flapper 43 of D), the elevator 44 of the temporary storage storage 41 (D) is raised, and the banknotes placed on the elevator 44 are taken in and out in order from the banknote at the highest position by the feeding section 42. The normal banknotes will be fed out, and the normal banknotes will be transported to the storage cassette section 51 through the transport paths 61F, 61A, 61G, 61A.

In the collection process, the above process is performed for one or more designated denominations, whereby only the banknotes that have been identified and counted by the identification unit 31 are stored in the storage cassette unit 51. The storage cassette unit 51, which stores the banknotes to be collected in a state where the banknotes to be collected are present and the height is grasped, is removed from the machine body 10 and transported.

[Replenishment process]
The banknotes of the storage cassette unit 51 set in the machine body 10 with the replenishment banknotes loaded outside the machine are stored in the respective storage area 48 of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D). In the replenishment process, the control unit 71 puts the banknotes of the storage cassette unit 51 into the corresponding storage area 48 of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) in the same manner as in the second storage processing described above. The flapper 43 is stored via the temporary storage area 47 in the open state.

According to the first embodiment described above, the control unit 71 displays the banknotes inserted into the deposit unit 20 at the time of deposit processing with the temporary storage storage 41 of a plurality of denominations based on the identification result of the identification unit 31. At least one of the temporary storage area 47s of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) of a plurality of denominations is predetermined while being stored in the temporary storage area 47 of A) to 41 (D). When the storage state becomes full, overflow bills that cannot be stored in the temporary storage area 47 in the full state in the predetermined storage state are temporarily stored in the storage cassette section 51. Then, when the payment is confirmed, the banknotes stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) of a plurality of denominations are stored in the temporary storage storage 41 (temporary storage storage 41) of each denomination with the flapper 43 open. It is stored in the storage area 48 of A) to 41 (D).

In this way, a plurality of banknotes are temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) by denomination before the payment is confirmed, and the flapper of the temporary storage area 47 is stored when the payment is confirmed. Since all the banknotes temporarily stored in the denomination mixture are collectively stored in the storage area 48 of the same denomination when the 43 is opened, the storage process at the time of payment confirmation is compared with the case where all the banknotes temporarily stored by the denomination mixing are distributed after the payment is confirmed. Processing time can be shortened.

Further, since the banknotes in the temporary storage area 47 are collectively dropped and stored in the lower storage area 48 by the opening operation of the flapper 43, it is possible to suppress the occurrence of jams rather than transporting and distributing the banknotes.

Further, when the payment is canceled, the banknotes stored in the temporary storage area 47 and the storage cassette 51 of the temporary storage storage 41 (A) to 41 (D) of each denomination are sent out to the withdrawal return unit 21, so that the payment unit is used. The banknote itself inserted in 20 can be returned to the withdrawal / return unit 21.

If there are overflow bills in the storage cassette unit 51 when the payment is confirmed, the control unit 71 sorts the overflow bills based on the identification result of the identification unit 31, and the flapper 43 is in the open state. It is stored in the storage area 48 of the temporary storage storage 41 (A) to 41 (D) of a plurality of denominations via the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage 41 (A) to 41 (D) of each type. Therefore, the overflow bills that could not be stored in the temporary storage area 47 at the time of deposit processing are also stored in the storage area 48 of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) of a plurality of denominations. It can be effectively used as a withdrawal bill.

That is, the banknotes temporarily stored in the storage cassette section 51 during the deposit processing are only the overflows that could not be temporarily stored in the temporary storage area section 47 of the temporary storage storage boxes 41 (A) to 41 (D) for each denomination. Therefore, the amount is usually small. Therefore, it does not take much time to distribute and store the bills temporarily stored in the storage cassette unit 51 into the storage area 48 of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) of each denomination. Therefore, following the first storage process of storing the bills temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (A) to 41 (D) of each denomination in the storage area 48, the storage cassette unit 51 It does not take much time to perform the second storage process of distributing the temporarily stored banknotes to the storage area 48 and storing them in the storage area 48. Therefore, it is possible to shorten the processing time of the storage process at the time of payment confirmation as compared with the case where all the banknotes temporarily stored by denomination mixing are distributed after payment is confirmed.

Further, the banknotes that are removable from the machine 10 and are stored in the storage area 48 of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) of a plurality of denominations at the time of collection processing, and the banknotes for replenishment are stored outside the machine. Since the storage cassette unit 51 to be loaded is used as a storage cassette unit for overflow banknotes, it is not necessary to provide a storage cassette unit dedicated to overflow banknotes, and the banknote processing machine 11 can be miniaturized and reduced in cost. That is, by utilizing the storage cassette unit 51 for replenishment / collection for temporary storage of overflow bills for purposes other than replenishment / collection, it is possible to omit a dedicated storage (overflow storage), which saves space.・ Low cost. Further, since the large-capacity storage cassette unit 51 is used for temporary storage of overflow bills, a large amount of overflow bills can be temporarily stored.

Further, since each of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) of each denomination is divided into a temporary storage area 47 and a storage area 48 by a flapper 43 that can be raised and lowered, the temporary storage area 47 and the storage area 48 The capacity of the storage area portion 48 can be made variable. Therefore, by increasing the storage capacity of the temporary storage area portion 47, it is possible to reduce the occurrence of overflow bills. Since the overflow bills can be reduced in this way, even if the second storage process is required, the processing time of the second storage process can be shortened.

Further, among the banknotes drawn out from the deposit unit 20 during the deposit process, the entrance sensor 25 on the deposit unit 20 side of the identification unit 31 for identifying the denomination detects that the banknotes are abnormally conveyed or abnormally shaped. The bills are not transported to the identification unit 31, but are transported to the withdrawal / return unit 21 by a shortcut and returned. Therefore, the occurrence of jam can be suppressed. Moreover, since the banknotes can be transported to the withdrawal / return unit 21 through the transfer paths 61M and 61K that branch from the transfer path 61A from the deposit section 20 to the identification section 31 and do not intersect with the transfer path 61A after the branch. It is possible to transport the banknotes detected as abnormally transported banknotes or abnormally shaped banknotes to the withdrawal / returning unit 21 without temporarily interrupting the feeding operation from the depositing unit 20 into the machine.

In the first embodiment described above, a banknote of a denomination with a small amount of circulation in the market (for example, a 2000 yen note) may be set as a non-reflux banknote that is not used for reflux. In this case, recirculated banknotes of the same denomination (for example, 10,000 yen bills) can be stored in a plurality of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D). In the case of this setting, in the deposit process, the non-refluxed banknotes are temporarily stored in the storage cassette section 51 in the same manner as the overflow banknotes, and in the second storage process, the overflow of the banknotes temporarily stored in the storage cassette section 51 overflows. The normal recirculated banknotes are stored in the storage area 48 of the corresponding denominations of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D), while the non-recirculated banknotes among the banknotes temporarily stored in the storage cassette section 51. Is stored in the withdrawal reject storage 22 in the same manner as the reject bill.

Further, in the first embodiment, the storage cassette unit 51 may have a flapper 43 like the temporary storage storage 41. With this configuration, when the next deposit transaction is instructed during the second storage process of distributing the overflow bills from the storage cassette unit 51 to the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D), The second storage process is interrupted, and the overflow bills remaining in the storage cassette section 51 are temporarily stored below the flapper 43 of the storage cassette section 51. As a result, the overflow bill of the next deposit transaction can be temporarily stored above the flapper 43 separately from the overflow bill of the previous one. Therefore, the overflow bill of the next deposit transaction can be returned to the withdrawal / return unit 21 at the time of the return processing. Therefore, the next deposit transaction can be performed without waiting for the second storage process of the previous deposit transaction. In this case, after performing the second storage process of distributing the overflow banknotes of the next deposit transaction to the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D), the overflow banknotes temporarily stored below the flapper 43 are interrupted. The previous second storage process is resumed.

In this case, the storage cassette unit 51 is a collective temporary storage area where the upper side of the flapper 43 temporarily stores bills so that the bills can be fed out, and the bottom flapper 43 can be opened and closed. It is a collective storage area portion provided on the lower side of the portion and in which bills are received from the collective temporary storage area portion in which the flapper 43 is opened and stored so as to be able to be fed out. When the payment is confirmed, the control unit 71 opens the flappers 43 for the banknotes stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) of the plurality of denominations, and the control unit 71 has a plurality of denominations. The overflow bills of the storage cassette unit 51 are sorted based on the identification result of the identification unit 31 while being stored in the storage area 48 of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D). When the next deposit transaction is instructed during a series of operations of storing in the storage area 48 via the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D), the series Is interrupted, and the overflow bills remaining in the batch temporary storage area above the flapper 43 of the storage cassette section 51 are temporarily stored in the batch storage area below the flapper 43. Therefore, the start of the next deposit transaction can be accelerated.

Further, in the first embodiment, each of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) of each denomination is not a flapper 43 but a shutter that can be opened and closed and cannot be raised and lowered to form a temporary storage area 47 and a storage area 48. It may be divided into. In this case, the storage capacities of the temporary storage area 47 and the storage area 48 are fixed. If a shutter that cannot be raised and lowered is used, the height positions of the shutters of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) of each type can be aligned so that the drive source (for example, motor) for opening and closing can be shared. This is easily possible and the cost can be reduced.

In the first embodiment, as described above, in the deposit process, the banknote transport route for transporting the rejected banknotes identified as unacceptable by the identification unit 31 to the withdrawal / return unit 21 is taken in from the deposit unit 20. Since it partially intersects the route of the banknotes to the identification unit 31, it is necessary to temporarily suspend the payout operation from the deposit unit 20 when transporting the rejected banknotes to the withdrawal / return unit 21. Therefore, the more rejected banknotes are transported to the withdrawal / return section 21, the more the payout operation from the deposit / return section 20 is paused. In order to suppress such an intermittent feeding operation of the deposit unit 20, the control may be changed as follows.

In the deposit processing, the rejected banknotes identified as unacceptable by the identification unit 31 are not immediately transported to the withdrawal / return unit 21, but in a situation where overflow banknotes do not occur, as shown by a thick solid line to a thick broken line in FIG. In addition, on the outbound route, the reject was once stored in the storage cassette section 51 in the transport path 61A, and after all the banknotes set in the deposit section 20 were taken into the machine, it was stored in the storage cassette section 51. As shown by the thick broken line in FIG. 11, the banknotes are transported to the withdrawal / return unit 21 by the transport routes 61A, 61G, 61A, 61M, 61K on the return route.

In this case, during the deposit process, when the bill storage amount of the temporary storage area portion 47 of any of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) is nearly full, the deposit is made from the deposit unit 20. The banknotes are temporarily stopped from being fed by the payout section 24, and after the sorting and transporting of banknotes on the transport path 61A is completed (or after the condition that the deposit payout bills and the transport do not intersect), the bills are stored in the storage cassette section 51. As shown by the thick broken line in FIG. 11, the rejected banknotes are transported to the withdrawal / return unit 21 through the transport paths 61A, 61G, 61A, 61M, 61K. After that, when the rejected banknotes are generated while the overflow banknotes are stored in the storage cassette unit 51, the deposit feeding unit 24 is stopped, and the control is switched to the above-mentioned deposit processing control whose route is shown by a thick line in FIG. Here, the bill storage amount determined to be close to the full state means that the bill storage amount remains on the transport path 61A at the time when it is determined to be close to the full state in the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 that has reached this bill storage amount. From the number of banknotes that do not generate overflow banknotes even if all the banknotes are stored, that is, the number of full banknotes that are determined to be full in the temporary storage area section 47, the banknotes are placed on the transport path 61A at the time when the deposit delivery section 24 is stopped. It is a value obtained by subtracting the number of remaining banknotes.

In the deposit process, when the temporary storage area 47 of any of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) for each denomination is nearly full, the remaining amount of banknotes in the deposit 20 is low. Therefore, after the above-mentioned two-step control, that is, the first-step control of storing the rejected banknotes in the storage cassette unit 51, the deposit feeding unit 24 is stopped when the rejected banknotes are generated. Even if the control is switched to two-step control, the effect on the deposit processing time is small.

In the deposit process, after the first stage control of storing the rejected banknotes in the storage cassette unit 51, the control pattern of switching to the second stage control of stopping the deposit feeding unit 24 when the rejected banknotes are generated, and the first Therefore, a control pattern for stopping the deposit feeding unit 24 when a rejected bill is generated may be set by the operator in advance before the start of the deposit process.

In the first embodiment, for example, even if two withdrawal return units 21 are provided and the front and back alignment control performed in the loose bill withdrawal process or the like is performed at the time of the return process and at the time of rejecting the banknote in the local arrangement process. good. That is, at the time of return processing and rejection of banknotes in the local rearranging process, it is desirable that the front and back sides of the banknotes are aligned and collected in the withdrawal / return unit 21 to the outside of the machine, but the banknotes identified as rejected banknotes by the identification unit 31. In some cases, the front and back sides are unknown. In this case, the front and back sides of the banknotes cannot be returned together. For this reason, two withdrawal / return units 21 are provided, and bills with the same front and back sides and bills with irregular front and back sides (unknown) are separately collected. In this case, after transporting the banknotes with uneven front and back to one of the withdrawal / return units 21, guidance such as "The banknotes at the withdrawal / return port are rejected banknotes, so align the front and back after extraction." May be displayed and the operator may guide the banknotes to align the front and back sides. As a result, even if the front and back information of the banknote is not obtained, the banknote for which the front and back information of the banknote is not obtained and the banknote with the same front and back can be easily separated without being mixed. Therefore, the usability is improved and the convenience is improved.

Further, in the second storage process, when the banknotes are stored in the storage area 48 of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D), the flapper 43 is stored via the temporary storage area 47 in the open state. However, the bills may be temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 47 in the closed state of the flapper 43, and then the flapper 43 may be opened to be stored in the storage area 48. In this case, for example, when the banknotes are distributed from the storage cassette unit 51 to the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D), the storage cassette unit 51 is filled every time one temporary storage area 47 is full. Is stopped and is stored in the storage area 48 from the temporary storage area 47, and then the distribution from the storage cassette section 51 to the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) is controlled to be restarted. ..

<Second Embodiment>
The banknote processing machine of the second embodiment according to the present invention will be described focusing on the differences from the first embodiment.

In the second embodiment, as shown in FIG. 12, an optical accumulation height for detecting whether or not the accumulation height of banknotes accumulated and placed vertically on the deposit unit 20 is equal to or less than a predetermined height. A detection sensor 81 is provided. In the accumulated height detection sensor 81, the accumulated height of the banknotes of the deposit unit 20 is a predetermined height, specifically, one bundle can be bound at the time of local rearranging processing, but two bundles cannot be bound 100. It is detected that the height is less than the accumulation height of about 1 sheet + α. The accumulated height detection sensor 81 detects that the accumulated height exceeds a predetermined height when the bill is shielded from light, and the accumulated height is equal to or less than the predetermined height when the bill is not shaded. Detect that.

In the second embodiment, the bills set in the deposit unit 20 are identified and counted by the identification unit 31, bound by the alignment units 35 and 36, the elevating and lowering transport units 37, and the binding unit 38, and the machine is bound by the bundle withdrawal unit 39. The same local rearranging process as in the first embodiment of discharging to the outside is performed by using the detection result of the integrated height detection sensor 81.

[Local cleanup process]
Multiple modes can be selected for local organization processing. These modes include a single denomination manual designation binding mode in which a single binding target denomination is manually input to bind bills, and a single piece in which a single binding target denomination is identified by the identification unit 31. There is a single denomination automatic setting binding mode in which the denomination of the eye bill is automatically set and the bills are bound, and a multiple denomination binding mode in which the bills of a plurality of denominations are bound.

Further, in the single denomination manual designation binding mode and the single denomination automatic setting binding mode, the bills set in the deposit unit 20 are temporarily stored in the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D), respectively. After storing, temporarily store the banknotes set in the deposit section 20 and the route via the pool, which is transported to the alignment sections 35 and 36 and bound by the binding section 38, in the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D). Instead, it is possible to select a direct route that is conveyed to the aligning portions 35 and 36 and bound by the binding portion 38. In the multiple denomination binding mode, it is necessary to divide the banknotes into denominations. Therefore, the banknotes set in the deposit unit 20 are temporarily stored in the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D), and then the alignment unit. It is a route via a pool that is transported to 35 and 36 and bound by the binding unit 38.

The mode is selected by operating the operation display unit 70, and when the single denomination manual designation binding mode and the single denomination automatic setting binding mode are selected, further to the operation display unit 70. Route selection will be performed from the route via the pool and the direct route by the operation of.

{Direct route in single denomination manual designated unity mode}
The thick line in FIG. 12 shows the direct route in the single denomination manual designated binding mode. When the operation display unit 70 includes the denomination to be bound and the direct route of the single denomination manual designation binding mode is set, the control unit 71 detects the bills by the accumulated height detection sensor 81 and causes the deposit unit 20 to receive the bill. When there are more banknotes than the number of united units (100) in one bundle, the banknotes of the deposit unit 20 are transported through the transport path as shown by the thick solid line in FIG. 12 in the same manner as the local rearranging process of the first embodiment. 61A, 61J, 61G, 61H, 61A transport the normal banknotes to the identification unit 31, and the identification unit 31 identifies the normal denomination to be bound. If it is necessary to reverse the front and back, the transport paths 61A, 61N, 61M, 61K, 61P, 61Q are used to transport the coins to the aligning portions 35 and 36, the elevating and lowering transport portions 37 and the binding portion 38 are used for binding, and the bundled withdrawal portion 39 is fed. On the other hand, from the identification result of the identification unit 31, the banknotes with abnormal transport and the banknotes other than the denomination to be bound, including the denomination indistinguishable, are rejected banknotes as shown by a thick solid line to a thick broken line in FIG. It is delivered to the withdrawal return unit 21 on the transport paths 61A and 61K. If the accumulated height detection sensor 81 does not detect banknotes, the operation display unit 70 notifies that the number of banknotes is small, so that only the route via the pool, which will be described later, can be selected in the same mode.

Here, if the accumulated height detection sensor 81 is in a state of not detecting banknotes during the local rearranging process in the direct route of the single denomination manual designation binding mode, the control unit 71 is among the alignment units 35 and 36. When the identification unit 31 identifies the banknotes to be transported as the 100th banknote to the one in which the banknotes are accumulated at that time, the transfer of the banknotes to the aligning units 35 and 36 is stopped, and the banknotes after the 100th banknote are displayed. , Regardless of whether or not the denomination is the target of binding, all of them are transported to the withdrawal / return unit 21.

The control when the accumulated height detection sensor 81 is in a state of not detecting banknotes during the local rearranging process is not limited to the above control. For example, after temporarily stopping the feeding of banknotes from the deposit unit 20, a guidance is displayed on the operation display unit 70 to prompt the operator to select whether or not an additional set of banknotes is present, and then the operation display unit 70 displays the banknotes. When the presence of the additional set is selected and input, the local rearranging process is restarted when the accumulated height detection sensor 81 is in the state of detecting the banknote. On the other hand, when the operation display unit 70 is selectively input to the operation display unit 70 without an additional set of banknotes, the control may be such that the route is switched to the route via the pool, which will be described later, in the same mode. As a result, it is possible to prevent the fractional sheets from being left in the aligning portions 35 and 36.

In this control, when no additional set of banknotes is selectively input, it is not necessary to uniformly switch to the route via the pool. You may select and input. When the fraction end possible is selected and input, the counting may be restarted by the direct route, and when the fraction end impossible is selected, the control may be performed by switching to the route via the pool and restarting the counting.

The accumulated height detection sensor 81 has been described by taking an optical sensor that shields light from bills as an example, but the present invention is not limited to this, and for example, bills are accumulated from the height position of a bill press (not shown) provided in the deposit section 20. The height may be detected. In either case, grasp the ratio of the denomination of the banknotes transported so far, apply the ratio of the remaining banknotes to it, judge whether there is a multiple of 100, and the number of likely 100. In the case of, it may be transported to the alignment units 35 and 36, and in other cases, it may be transported to the withdrawal return unit 21 or inquired about the presence or absence of an additional set. At the end of the process in the direct route of the single denomination manual designated binding mode, the control unit 71 opens the shutters of the bundle withdrawal unit 39 and the withdrawal return unit 21 to open the bundle withdrawal unit 39 and the withdrawal return unit 21. Allows you to retrieve bundled banknotes and banknotes from.

{Route via pool in single denomination manual designated cohesion mode}
The thick line in FIG. 13 shows the outbound route of the route via the pool in the single denomination manual designated unity mode. When the operation display unit 70 includes the denomination to be bound and the route via the pool in the single denomination manual designation binding mode is set, the control unit 71 starts the deposit unit 20 to bills as shown by the thick solid line in FIG. Is transported to the identification unit 31 through the feeding transport path 61A. Then, the identification unit 31 identifies and counts the banknotes, and the normal banknotes identified as the normal binding target denomination by the identification unit 31 are temporarily stored in the temporary storage area section 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (A). The temporary storage area 47 of the storage storage 41 (B), the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage 41 (C), and the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage 41 (D) are filled in this order. In addition, it is transported by the transport paths 61C, 61D, 61E, 61F. However, the above order of bill storage in the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) is an example, and the order is not limited to this order. From the identification result of the identification unit 31, the banknotes with abnormal transport and the banknotes other than the denomination to be bound, including the denomination indistinguishable, are rejected banknotes as shown by the thick solid line to the thick broken line in FIG. It is conveyed to the storage cassette section 51 at 61A.

When the identification unit 31 identifies, for example, the normal banknotes of the binding target denomination of the full number (for example, 500) of the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (A), the control unit 71 is full. The normal banknotes of the denomination to be bound up to the number of sheets are stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (A), and the normal banknotes of the next denomination to be bound next to the full number of sheets are stored in the temporary storage storage 41. It is stored in the temporary storage area 47 of (B). After that, when the identification unit 31 identifies the normal banknotes of the denomination to be bound for the full number (for example, 500) of the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (B), the binding target up to this full number. The normal banknotes of the denomination are stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (B), and from the normal banknotes of the next binding target denomination of the full number, the temporary storage storage 41 (C) is temporarily stored. It is stored in the storage area 47. Similarly, when the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (C) becomes full, normal banknotes of the denomination to be bound are stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (D). In each of the temporary storage area portions 47, the flapper 43 is lowered in the range from the standby position to the lowest openable position according to the amount of bills to be stored, and the flapper 43 is lowered to the lowest openable position. Then it becomes full.

Here, when the banknotes of the deposit unit 20 are exhausted during the local rearranging process in the single denomination manual designated binding mode via the pool, the control unit 71 stops the deposit delivery unit 24 and displays the operation display unit 70. After displaying the guidance and prompting the operator to select whether or not there is an additional set of banknotes, if the operation display unit 70 selectively inputs that there is an additional set of banknotes, the operation display unit 70 resumes processing. When the instruction operation is input, the local rearranging process is restarted including the drive of the deposit delivery unit 24. This enables the operator to sequentially additionally insert banknotes into the deposit unit 20, and in the case of a large amount of deposits due to the sequential additional insertion, all of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D). It is possible to deposit the amount of banknotes according to the total value of the storage capacity of the temporary storage area portion 47.

The thick line in FIG. 14 shows the return route of the route via the pool in the single denomination manual designated unity mode. When there are no banknotes in the deposit section 20 due to the outbound route, and the operation display 70 is selectively input with no additional set of banknotes, or when there are banknotes in the deposit section 20 due to the outbound route. When all the temporary storage area 47s of the temporary storage 41 (A) to 41 (D) are full and the deposit delivery unit 24 is stopped, the control unit 71 moves the temporary storage 41 (A). From the temporary storage area portion 47 of ~ 41 (D), the stored banknotes are sequentially paid out.

Then, as shown by the thick solid line in FIG. 14, the drawn banknotes are conveyed by the transport path 61A and identified by the identification unit 31, and the normal banknotes identified by the identification unit 31 are transported by the transport path 61A, if the front and back are not required to be reversed. At 61K, 61P, 61Q, if it is necessary to reverse the front and back, the transport paths 61A, 61N, 61M, 61K, 61P, 61Q are alternately transported to the aligning parts 35, 36 so that the number of binding units is reached, and when the number of binding units is reached. It is bound by the elevating and lowering transport unit 37 and the binding unit 38, and is fed to the bundle withdrawal unit 39.

For example, when banknotes are fed out from the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (A) and there are no more banknotes in the temporary storage area 47, the banknotes are discharged from the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (B). When the banknotes run out in the temporary storage area 47, the banknotes are paid out from the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (C), and when the banknotes run out in the temporary storage area 47, the banknotes are temporarily stored. Banknotes are paid out from the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (D). On the other hand, the rejected banknotes identified as an abnormal transport or a poor denomination identification are transported to the withdrawal / return unit 21 along the transport paths 61A and 61K as shown by the thick solid line to the thick broken line in FIG. In this way, the banknotes stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) are sequentially bundled.

Here, the control unit 71 grasps the total number of banknotes stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) from the identification result of the identification unit 31 on the outbound route. From this total number of banknotes, the number of rejected banknotes that have been transported to the withdrawal / return unit 21 or have poor denomination identification during transportation on the return route is subtracted each time it occurs. Fractional banknotes that are expected to be insufficient will be transported to the withdrawal / return unit 21.

That is, the control unit 71 presets and stores the estimated number of rejected banknotes with transport abnormalities and denomination identification defects that can occur when 100 banknotes are fed out, and is accumulated in the alignment unit 35 from an empty state. When the 100th banknote is identified by the identification unit 31, the estimated number of banknotes is subtracted from the remaining number of banknotes, and if the number is 100 or more, the banknotes are accumulated in the alignment unit 36 and accumulated in the alignment unit 36 from an empty state. When the 100th banknote is identified by the identification unit 31, the expected number of banknotes is subtracted from the remaining number of banknotes, and if the number is 100 or more, the banknotes are accumulated in the empty alignment unit 35. Are performed in sequence. Then, when the 100th banknote accumulated in any of the alignment units 35 and 36 is identified by the identification unit 31, the estimated number of banknotes is subtracted from the remaining number of banknotes to be less than 100, and then the identification is performed. The banknotes detected by the unit 31 are transported to the withdrawal / return unit 21.

In addition, in the processing of the return route when the banknotes of the deposit unit 20 are exhausted by the above-mentioned processing of the outward route and no additional set of banknotes is selectively input to the operation display unit 70, finally, the thick alternate long and short dash line is shown in FIG. As shown by the thick solid line and the thick broken line, the banknotes of the storage cassette unit 51 are transported to the withdrawal / return unit 21 through the transport paths 61A and 61K. On the other hand, when all the temporary storage areas 47 of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) are full due to the processing on the outbound route and the deposit delivery unit 24 is stopped, the inbound route is performed and the outbound route is performed. The outbound route and the inbound route are alternately repeated until there are no banknotes in the deposit unit 20 and no additional set of banknotes is selectively input to the operation display unit 70. Then, after the final return route, the banknotes of the storage cassette unit 51 are transported to the withdrawal / return unit 21 through the transport paths 61A and 61K, as shown by the thick dotted chain line, the thick solid line, and the thick dashed line in FIG. Then, at the end of the processing in the route via the pool in the single denomination manual designated binding mode, the control unit 71 opens the shutters of the bundle withdrawal unit 39 and the withdrawal return unit 21 to open the bundle withdrawal unit 39 and the withdrawal unit. The bundled banknotes and banknotes can be taken out from the return unit 21.

Here, when the rejected banknotes are transported to the withdrawal / return unit 21, if they are transported to the withdrawal / return unit 21 each time they are identified by the identification unit 31, the payout operation of the deposit unit 20 is performed because the transfer routes intersect. Although it involves a process of pausing, as described above, the rejected banknotes are transported to the storage cassette section 51 on the outward route, and after the banknotes of the deposit section 20 are paid out, the rejected banknotes are issued on the return route. The processing time can be shortened by transporting the money to the money return unit 21. Further, since the rejected banknotes are stored in the storage cassette unit 51 and transported to the withdrawal / return unit 21, the banknotes can be efficiently returned without the work of pulling out the unit or the like when taking out the rejected banknotes.

A specific example of processing in the route via the pool in the single denomination manually specified unity mode will be described. For example, first, on the outbound route, 500 sheets are stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (A), 500 sheets are stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (B), and the temporary storage storage 41 (temporary storage storage 41 (B). It is assumed that 235 banknotes and 1235 banknotes of the designated denomination to be bound are stored in the temporary storage area 47 of C). Then, on the return route, first, the banknotes are drawn out from the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (A), and the normal banknotes identified as normal by the identification unit 31 are collected in the alignment unit 35, which is the unit number of 100 sheets. Then, the 100 banknotes are conveyed by the elevating and lowering transport section 37, bound by the binding section 38, and fed out to the bundle withdrawal section 39. Further, when 100 banknotes are accumulated in the alignment unit 35 as described above, the subsequent normal banknotes are conveyed to the alignment unit 36. Then, when 100 normal banknotes are accumulated in the alignment unit 36, the 100 banknotes of the alignment unit 36 are conveyed by the elevating and lowering transfer unit 37, provided that the accumulated banknotes from the preceding alignment unit 35 have already been bundled. , Bundling at the binding unit 38 and feeding out to the bundle withdrawal unit 39. Such an operation is repeated while alternately switching the collection destinations of normal banknotes at the alignment units 35 and 36. Banknotes identified as abnormally transported by the identification unit 31 are transported to the withdrawal return unit 21.

As described above, when the banknotes in the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (A) are exhausted, the banknotes are then drawn out from the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (B). Subsequently, the normal banknotes identified as normal by the identification unit 31 are collected and bound. When the banknotes in the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (B) are exhausted, the banknotes are then drawn out from the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (C), and the identification unit 31 continues from the above. Collect and bind normal banknotes identified as normal.

Here, as a specific example, when the identification unit 31 determines the transfer of 1100 banknotes capable of binding 11 bundles to the alignment units 35 and 36, the identification unit 31 rejects the transfer abnormality or the denomination identification failure. If, for example, 5 banknotes are generated, 1235-1100-5 = 130 banknotes. Assuming that 7 sheets are set as the expected number of rejected banknotes for 130 sheets, 130 sheets-7 sheets = 123 sheets, and 123 sheets are 100 sheets or more, so the control unit 71 is the 12th bundle. To unite. At that time, if the 100th normal banknote is identified by the identification unit 31, the subsequent 23 normal banknotes will be transported to the withdrawal / return unit 21. On the other hand, when the identification unit 31 determines the transfer of 1100 banknotes capable of binding 11 bundles to the alignment units 35 and 36, for example, 35 rejected banknotes due to an abnormality in transfer by the identification unit 31 or poor denomination identification are found. If it has occurred, 1235 sheets-1100 sheets-35 sheets = 100 sheets, and assuming that 5 sheets are set as the expected number of rejected banknotes for 100 sheets, the control unit 71 has 100 sheets. Since -5 sheets = 95 sheets and 95 sheets are less than 100 sheets, the remaining banknotes are transported to the withdrawal / return unit 21 without binding the 12th bundle.

If there is a possibility that the 12th bundle of banknotes may be insufficient when the identification unit 31 detects 11 bundles of banknotes, the feeding of banknotes from the temporary storage area 47 is temporarily stopped and 12 bundles of banknotes are delivered. An inquiry as to whether or not the eyes should be bound may be made to the operator via the operation display unit 70, and may be selected via the operation display unit 70. Based on this result, when there is an input that the 12th bundle should be bound, the remaining bills are transported to the corresponding ones of the aligning portions 35 and 36, and the binding is performed even if the number of bills is insufficient. .. If the number of banknotes is insufficient, the binding band is identified to indicate that the number of banknotes is insufficient. On the other hand, if there is an input that the 12th bundle is not bound, the remaining bills are transported to the withdrawal / return unit 21.

Further, it does not have to be limited to the above control. For example, by transporting the 12th bundle of banknotes to the corresponding items of the alignment units 35 and 36, only 95 banknotes could be accumulated, that is, 40 banknotes were rejected to the withdrawal / return unit 21. Even if the banknotes are transported, the operator may be guided by the guidance to set the banknotes returned to the withdrawal / return unit 21 again in the deposit unit 20, and the shortage of banknotes may be taken in. At this time, 40 banknotes of the denomination to be bound are reinserted into the deposit section 20, but the banknotes are not taken in all at once, and the banknotes are temporarily stopped when the shortage of 5 banknotes are paid out. It is also possible to control so as to additionally pay out according to the identification result by the identification unit 31 of the above, so that surplus banknotes are not generated.

{Direct route for single denomination automatic setting unity mode}
When the direct route of the single denomination automatic setting binding mode is set in the operation display unit 70, the control unit 71 detects the banknotes by the accumulated height detection sensor 81, and the deposit unit 20 has one bundle of binding units ( When there are more banknotes (100 sheets), the banknotes of the banknotes of the deposit unit 20 are transported to the identification unit 31 by the transport paths 61A, 61J, 61G, 61H, 61A in the same manner as the local rearranging process of the first embodiment. do. Then, the denomination of the banknote first identified by the identification unit 31 is set as the denomination to be bound. After that, the control is the same as the direct route in the single denomination manual designation unity mode. If the accumulated height detection sensor 81 does not detect banknotes, the operation display unit 70 notifies that the number of banknotes is small, so that only the route via the pool, which will be described later, can be selected in the same mode.

{Route via pool in single denomination automatic setting cohesion mode}
When the operation display unit 70 is set to the route via the pool in the single denomination automatic setting binding mode, the control unit 71 sends out the banknotes from the deposit unit 20 to the identification unit 31 in the transport path 61A as shown in FIG. Transport. Then, the denomination of the banknote first identified by the identification unit 31 is set as the denomination to be bound. After that, the control will be the same as the route via the pool in the single denomination manual designated unity mode.

{Multiple denomination unity mode}
The thick line in FIG. 13 also shows the outbound route in the multiple denomination binding mode. On the operation display unit 70, the first binding target denomination (for example, 10,000 yen ticket), the second binding target denomination (for example, 5,000 yen ticket), the third binding target denomination (for example, 1,000 yen ticket), and the fourth binding target When a plurality of denominations binding mode is set including a plurality of denominations (for example, a 2000 yen note), the control unit 71 sends a bill from the deposit unit 20 as shown by a thick solid line in FIG. It is conveyed to the identification unit 31 by the feeding transfer path 61A.

Then, the identification unit 31 identifies and counts the bills, and the control unit 71 is identified by the identification unit 31 as a normal first binding target denomination when the first binding target denomination is set. When the second binding target denomination is set in the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (A), the normal bill identified as the normal second binding target denomination by the identification unit 31. When the third binding target denomination is set in the temporary storage area portion 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (B), the normal bills identified as the normal third binding target denomination by the identification unit 31 are temporarily stored. When the fourth binding target denomination is set in the temporary storage area portion 47 of the storage storage 41 (C), the normal bills identified as the normal fourth binding target denomination by the identification unit 31 are temporarily stored and stored. It is transported to the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (D) by the transport paths 61A, 61C, 61D, 61E, 61F. Here, each of the temporary storage area 47 lowers the flapper 43 in the range from the standby position to the lowest openable position according to the amount of bills temporarily stored. The identification unit 31 transports the banknotes with abnormal transport and the banknotes other than the denomination to be bound, including the denomination indistinguishable, to the storage cassette section 51 as rejected banknotes through the transport path 61A. For example, when the first and second binding target denominations are selected and set from the first to fourth binding target denominations, the normal bills of the first binding target denomination are temporarily stored and stored in the storage 41 (A). The normal bills of the second binding target denomination are transported to the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (B), and the bills of other denominations are transported to the storage cassette 51. do.

Here, in any of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D), the temporary storage area 47 has an integral multiple of 100 sheets, which is the number of binding units, + a margin number, within a range smaller than the full number of sheets. When the maximum number of banknotes is stored, the subsequent normal banknotes of the same denomination are transported to the storage cassette section 51 through the transport path 61A. For example, when the number of full sheets of the temporary storage area 47 for storing the first binding target denomination is 520 and the margin number is set to 10, 510 first binding target gold of 100 × 5 + 10 is set. When the identification unit 31 detects the normal bill of the seed, the first denomination to be bound thereafter is conveyed to the storage cassette unit 51 through the transport path 61A.

Here, even during the local rearranging process in the multiple denomination binding mode, when the banknotes of the deposit unit 20 run out, the control unit 71 stops the deposit delivery unit 24 and causes the operation display unit 70 to display guidance. After prompting the operator to select whether or not to have an additional set of banknotes, if the operation display unit 70 selectively inputs that there is an additional set of banknotes, the operation display unit 70 inputs an instruction operation for resuming processing. Then, the local reorganization process is restarted including the drive of the deposit delivery unit 24.

The thick line in FIG. 14 also shows the return route in the multiple denomination uniting mode. When there are no banknotes in the deposit section 20 due to transportation on the outbound route, and no additional set of banknotes is selectively input to the operation display unit 70, and in the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D). If the temporary storage area 47 is full and the deposit delivery unit 24 is stopped even though it is selected and set as the denomination to be bound, the control unit 71 moves the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D). From the temporary storage area section 47 of the above, the banknotes stored in the banknotes are taken out by the taking-out section 42 in a predetermined order.

Then, as shown by a thick solid line in FIG. 14, the drawn banknotes are conveyed by the corresponding ones of the transport paths 61C to 61F and the transport path 61A, and are conveyed to the identification unit 31. The identification unit 31 identifies and counts, and in the same manner as above, the normal banknotes identified as normal by the identification unit 31 are used in the transport paths 61A, 61K, 61P, 61Q if the front and back are not required to be reversed, and the transport path 61A if the front and back are required to be reversed. , 61N, 61M, 61K, 61P, 61Q, and convey to the alignment portions 35 and 36, bind by the elevating and lowering transport portions 37 and the binding portion 38, and feed out to the bundle withdrawal portion 39. On the other hand, rejected banknotes having a transfer abnormality in the identification unit 31 or a defective denomination identification are conveyed to the withdrawal / return unit 21 through the transfer paths 61A and 61K as shown by the thick solid line to the thick broken line in FIG. In this way, the banknotes stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) are sequentially bundled by denomination.

Here, the control unit 71 determines the number of banknotes stored in each of the temporary storage area units 47 of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) based on the identification result of the identification unit 31 on the outbound route. We know that the number of rejected banknotes transported to the withdrawal / return unit 21 is subtracted from each number of banknotes each time it is transported during transportation on the return route, and the number of banknotes that are assumed to be insufficient for the number of bound banknotes. Will be transported to the withdrawal return unit 21.

That is, the control unit 71 presets and stores the estimated number of rejected banknotes that can be generated by paying out 100 bills, and is fed out from the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (A) and arranged. When the 100th first binding target denomination banknote collected from the empty state in 35 is identified by the identification unit 31, the estimated number of banknotes is subtracted from the remaining number of first binding target denomination banknotes. If the number of banknotes is 100 or more, the banknotes are accumulated in the alignment unit 36, and when the 100th first binding target denomination banknote collected in the alignment unit 36 from an empty state is identified by the identification unit 31. If the estimated number of banknotes is subtracted from the number of banknotes of the remaining first denomination to be bound and the number of banknotes is 100 or more, the determination process of accumulating the banknotes in the empty alignment unit 35 is sequentially performed. Then, when the 100th banknote accumulated in any of the alignment units 35 and 36 is identified by the identification unit 31, the estimated number of banknotes is subtracted from the remaining number of banknotes to be less than 100, and then the identification is performed. The banknotes detected by the unit 31 are transported to the withdrawal / return unit 21.

The banknotes in the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (B) are also bound in the same manner. The banknotes in the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (C) are also bound in the same manner. The banknotes in the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (D) are also bound in the same manner.

In addition, in the processing of the return route when the banknotes of the deposit unit 20 are exhausted by the above-mentioned processing of the outward route and no additional set of banknotes is selectively input to the operation display unit 70, finally, the thick alternate long and short dash line is shown in FIG. As shown by the thick solid line and the thick broken line, the banknotes of the storage cassette unit 51 are transported to the withdrawal / return unit 21 through the transport paths 61A and 61K. On the other hand, when the temporary storage area 47 of any of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) becomes full due to the processing on the outbound route and the deposit delivery unit 24 is stopped, the return route is performed and the outbound route is performed. Such an outward route and a return route are alternately repeated until the banknotes in the deposit unit 20 are exhausted by the processing on the route and no additional set of banknotes is selectively input to the operation display unit 70. Then, after the final return route, the banknotes of the storage cassette unit 51 are transported to the withdrawal / return unit 21 through the transport paths 61A and 61K, as shown by the thick dotted chain line, the thick solid line, and the thick dashed line in FIG. Then, at the end of the processing in the plurality of denominations binding mode, the control unit 71 opens the shutters of the bundled withdrawal unit 39 and the withdrawal return unit 21, and the bundled banknotes and the bundled banknotes from the bundled withdrawal unit 39 and the withdrawal return unit 21 are opened. Makes bills available for removal.

Here, as described above, when the number of full sheets of the temporary storage area 47 for storing the first binding target denomination is 520 and the number of spare sheets is 10, for example, 100 × when the processing is performed on the outbound route. When 510 normal banknotes of 5 + 10 are detected by the identification unit 31, the subsequent banknotes of the first binding target denomination are transported to the storage cassette unit 51 through the transport path 61A. In this case, if two rejected banknotes are generated in the banknotes drawn out from the temporary storage area section 47 during processing on the return route, the remaining eight banknotes are conveyed to the storage cassette unit 51. Therefore, it is possible to suppress the amount of banknotes to be conveyed to the storage cassette unit 51 after bundling, and it is possible to suppress a decrease in processing efficiency.

According to the second embodiment, since the deposit height detection sensor 81 is provided in the deposit unit 20, when performing the local rearranging process, a fraction of banknotes that do not become bundled banknotes are generated before or during the process. Can be predicted. Then, based on the detection result of the accumulated height detection sensor 81 that monitors the height of the banknotes set in the deposit unit 20, control such as switching the transport destination becomes possible, and as a result, fractional banknotes are arranged in the alignment units 35 and 36. It is possible to transport the money to the withdrawal / return unit 21 which can be easily taken out without remaining in the money. Therefore, since it is not necessary to withdraw a unit for collecting fractional banknotes of the aligning portions 35 and 36, the labor can be reduced and the work efficiency can be improved.

<Third Embodiment>
The banknote processing machine of the third embodiment according to the present invention will be described focusing on the differences from the first embodiment.

In the third embodiment, in order to reduce the number of banknotes stored in the withdrawal reject storage 22, the withdrawal process of loose banknotes, which is partially different from that of the first embodiment, is performed. That is, in the bulk bill withdrawal processing, as the outbound route, as shown by the thick solid line in FIG. 15, the bills from the storage area 48 of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) are the same as in the first embodiment. Is paid out and identified by the identification unit 31, and the normal banknotes identified as normal by the identification unit 31 are conveyed to the withdrawal return unit 21 as in the first embodiment. On the other hand, among the rejected banknotes other than the normal banknotes, which the identification unit 31 has identified as a transport abnormality or a denomination improper identification, the banknotes identified as undistributable are shown by a thick solid line to a thick broken line in FIG. Regarding the rejected banknotes that were transported to the withdrawal reject storage 22 by the transport paths 61A, 61K, 61L and identified as distributable by the identification unit 31, the transport path 61A is shown by the thick solid line to the thick alternate long and short dash line in FIG. , 61G, 61A are stored in the storage cassette section 51. In other words, the rejected banknotes generated in the withdrawal operation of the loose banknote withdrawal process are divided into distributable rejected banknotes and non-distributable rejected banknotes according to the reject factor, and the destination of each outbound route is changed. ..

Specifically, banknotes with abnormal transport such as double feed, skew, or near feed may cause accumulation failure when they are transported to the storage cassette section 51 and attempted to be accumulated. Therefore, rejected banknotes that cannot be distributed. To the withdrawal reject storage 22. Banknotes other than abnormal transport, that is, bills with poor denomination identification whose denomination cannot be identified, are unlikely to cause accumulation defects in the storage cassette section 51, and are therefore transported to the storage cassette section 51 as distributable reject bills. It should be noted that there is a possibility that the denomination can be identified if the rejected banknote with poor denomination identification is identified again by the identification unit 31.

Then, when the input normal banknotes of the number of withdrawals of each denomination are sent out to the withdrawal return unit 21, the control unit 71 displays the distributable reject banknotes stored in the storage cassette unit 51 as a return route in FIG. The same route as the banknote transport route of the second storage process shown by the thick line, that is, the transport paths 61A, 61G, 61A are used to transport the banknotes to the identification unit 31, and the identification unit 31 is made to retry the identification. Based on the retry result, the normal banknotes whose denomination can be identified are transported to the corresponding ones of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) by the corresponding ones of the transport paths 61A, 61C to 61F. do. At this time, in the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D), the flapper 43 is in the open state, and the transported banknotes are stored in the storage area via the temporary storage area 47 in the temporary storage area 47 in the open state. Store in part 48.

Here, as in the second storage process, among the banknotes drawn out from the storage cassette unit 51, the rejected banknotes identified as a transport abnormality or a denomination failure by the identification retry in the identification unit 31 are stored in the storage cassette unit. With the feeding of banknotes from 51 stopped as appropriate, they are conveyed to the withdrawal reject storage 22 by the transport paths 61A, 61H, 61G, 61M, 61K, 61L as shown by the thick solid line and the thick broken line in FIG.

As a result, the amount of banknotes stored in the withdrawal reject storage 22 can be reduced. Therefore, as a result of being stored in the withdrawal reject storage 22, the number of banknotes that need to be inserted into the deposit unit 20 again for identification and counting is reduced, and the working time is shortened.

As a measure to reduce the rejected banknotes generated by the distribution operation from the storage cassette unit 51, the rejected banknotes identified as a transport abnormality by the identification retry in the identification unit 31 are stored in the withdrawal reject storage 22, but the denomination identification is poor. With respect to the banknotes identified as, the banknotes are conveyed to the identification unit 31 again through the transport paths 61A, 61H, 61G, 61A while appropriately stopping the feeding of the banknotes from the storage cassette unit 51, and the identification retry is repeated a plurality of times. Is also good.

In that case, for the banknotes with abnormal transport that are delivered from the storage cassette unit 51, identified by the identification unit 31, and then stored in the withdrawal reject storage 22 without retrying the next identification, the subsequent banknotes Will retry the next identification in the identification unit 31, but instead of immediately transporting it to the identification unit 31, it may be transported to the storage cassette unit 51 and then re-delivered and transported to the identification unit 31. be. For example, when the banknotes with abnormal transport are two near-feed banknotes, the subsequent third and subsequent banknotes are once transported to the storage cassette section 51, then fed out again and transported to the identification section 31. .. This control is for the reason of preventing cash miscalculation. That is, the denomination information management during banknote transportation is performed in a permutation. For example, when a near-feed occurs, two near-feed banknotes are erroneously detected as one, so that the permutation of the denomination information and the actual denomination information are actually performed. There is a difference from the permutation of banknotes, which may induce cash miscalculation. Therefore, once the transport unit 61 is in a clear state in which the banknotes are lost, the identification unit 31 is made to perform the next retry of identification.

As described above, in order to temporarily put the transport unit 61 in a clear state without banknotes, when the subsequent banknotes (third and subsequent banknotes) are stored in the storage cassette unit 51, they are immediately stored in the storage cassette unit 51. However, the storage cassette section 51 is in a state in which the elevator 53 is raised and can be fed out, and is not ready to accept banknotes. In order to keep the banknotes on standby until the storage cassette unit 51 can accept the banknotes, the banknotes are transported by the loop-shaped banknote transport route of the transport paths 61A, 61H, 61G shown by the thick solid line in FIG. Keep letting. Specifically, when the banknotes are transported about two times by the loop-shaped banknote transport route of the transport section 61, it is possible to gain time for the storage cassette section 51 to prepare for receiving the banknotes. By controlling in this way, it is not necessary to separately prepare a storage as a storage place for banknotes, and cost reduction and space saving can be achieved. Further, since it is not necessary to store the product in the storage as a shelter or to take it out of the storage, jams do not occur due to these operations, the processing time can be shortened, and the work efficiency can be improved.

It should be noted that the control is not limited to the control in which the banknotes are made to stand by while being transported on the loop-shaped banknote transfer route of the transport unit 61 as described above, and the normal banknotes that have been normally identified before the banknotes determined to be the identification retry are predetermined. After storing the banknotes in the temporary storage area 47 of the above, the transporting itself by the loop-shaped bill transport route of the transport unit 61 may be stopped and waited. Then, when the storage cassette unit 51 is ready to be received, the transport of the transport unit 61 by the loop-shaped bill transport route is restarted, and the waiting bills are stored in the storage cassette section 51.

Here, in the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) and the storage cassette unit 51, a sensor for detecting the transport state immediately after the feeding is provided, and the banknote in which the skewing state is detected immediately after the feeding is immediately received. It is also possible to carry out reverse transfer and return it to the feeding source so that the feeding retry operation is performed. This also makes it possible to reduce the amount of banknotes stored in the withdrawal reject storage 22.

The above embodiment can be changed as in the following modifications 1 to 6.

[Modification 1]
Regarding the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) at four locations and the storage cassette unit 51 at one location, one of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) is temporarily stored in the deposit processing. The storage area section 47 is used as a collective temporary storage section for temporary storage of mixed denominations of all banknotes of a specific denomination and overflow banknotes of all remaining denominations. For example, the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (D) having the storage area 48 for a specific denomination (for example, a 2000-yen note) whose market distribution volume is small is combined with all the banknotes of this denomination. For temporary storage of overflow bills of all other denominations. Further, the storage cassette unit 51 is used for temporarily storing rejected banknotes.

With this configuration, during the deposit processing along the route shown by the thick solid line in FIG. 2, all the banknotes of the specific one denomination and the overflow banknotes of all the remaining denominations identified by the identification unit 31 are transferred to the transport path 61A. , 61F temporarily stores in the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (D), and the rejected banknotes identified by the identification unit 31 are temporarily stored in the storage cassette 51 in the transport path 61A. As a result, it is not necessary to transport the rejected banknotes to the withdrawal / return unit 21 while the banknotes are being transported from the deposit unit 20 to the identification unit 31, and the rejected banknotes of the storage cassette unit 51 are collected at the end of the deposit process. It can be transported to the withdrawal return unit 21. Therefore, in order to transport the rejected banknotes identified by the identification unit 31 to the withdrawal / return unit 21, it is not necessary to interrupt the withdrawal of the deposit unit 20 in the middle.

That is, the banknote transport route of the transport path 61A taken from the deposit unit 20 and headed to the identification unit 31 and the banknote transport of the transport paths 61A, 61H, 61G, 61A, 61M, 61K from the identification unit 31 to the withdrawal return unit 21. Even if the route partially intersects, it is no longer necessary to stop the import of banknotes from the deposit unit 20 at the timing when rejected banknotes are generated, and the rejected banknotes are temporarily stored in the cassette unit. After being transported to the 51, the storage cassette unit 51 can be collectively transported to the withdrawal return unit 21. As a result, the deposit feeding unit 24 does not perform an intermittent operation when the deposit is taken in, so that the work efficiency is improved. Moreover, by utilizing the storage cassette unit 51 for replenishment / collection for temporary storage of rejected banknotes for purposes other than replenishment / collection, it is possible to omit a dedicated storage (temporary storage for rejected banknotes). , Space saving and low cost.

In the first modification, in the return process at the time of payment cancellation, the temporary storage area 47 and the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) are taken by the route shown by the thick line in FIG. 5 as in the first embodiment. All the banknotes of the storage cassette unit 51 will be paid out to the withdrawal / return unit 21.

Further, in the first storage process at the time of payment confirmation, the banknotes from the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (C) of each denomination are combined with the first storage process shown by the thick line in FIG. When storing the banknotes in the storage area 48 directly under each of them by the same route, in parallel with this, the banknotes in the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (D) of the denomination mixture are shown in FIG. It is sent to the storage cassette section 51 by the transport paths 61F, 61A, 61G, 61A by the same route as the collection process shown by the thick line. Then, when the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (D) becomes empty, this time, the transport paths 61A, 61G, 61A, 61C to the same route as the second storage process shown by the thick line in FIG. 4 Distribution processing from the storage cassette unit 51 is performed by 61F. As a result, the banknotes of the denomination to be stored in the storage area 48 of the temporary storage 41 (D) and the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage 41 (A) to 41 (C) could not be stored. The overflow bills can be distributed and stored in the corresponding storage area 48 of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) via the temporary storage area 47 in the open state of the flapper 43. In the first modification, any of the temporary storage areas 47 of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) can be set as a collective temporary storage unit for temporary storage of overflow bills. ..

[Modification 2]
Regarding the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) at four locations and the storage cassette unit 51 at one location, one of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) is temporarily stored in the deposit processing. The storage area 47 is used for temporary storage dedicated to rejected banknotes. For example, only the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (D) having the storage area 48 for a specific denomination (2,000 yen ticket) with a small market distribution volume is used for temporary storage dedicated to reject banknotes. do. Further, regarding the banknotes of the specific one denomination to be stored in the storage area 48 of the temporary storage storage 41 (D), in the deposit processing, the storage cassette unit 51 as a collective temporary storage unit for storing overflow banknotes. Temporarily store in.

With this configuration, during the deposit processing along the route shown by the thick solid line in FIG. 2, all the banknotes of the specific one denomination and the overflow banknotes of all the remaining denominations identified by the identification unit 31 are transferred to the transport path 61A. The rejected banknotes identified by the identification unit 31 are temporarily stored in the storage cassette unit 51, and the rejected banknotes identified by the identification unit 31 are stored in the temporary storage area section 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (D) in the transport paths 61A and 61F. As a result, it is not necessary to transport the rejected banknotes to the withdrawal / returning unit 21 while the banknotes are being transported from the deposit unit 20 to the identification unit 31, and the temporary storage storage 41 (D) is collected at the end of the deposit process. The rejected banknotes of the temporary storage area section 47 can be transported to the withdrawal return section 21 by the transport paths 61F, 61A, 61K by the same route as the return process shown by the thick line in FIG. Therefore, as in the first modification, in order to convey the rejected banknotes identified by the identification unit 31 to the withdrawal / return unit 21, it is not necessary to interrupt the withdrawal of the deposit unit 20 in the middle.

Also in the second modification, in the return process at the time of payment cancellation, the temporary storage area 47 and the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) are taken by the route shown by the thick line in FIG. 5 as in the first embodiment. All the banknotes of the storage cassette unit 51 will be paid out to the withdrawal / return unit 21.

Further, in the first storage process at the time of payment confirmation, the banknotes from the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (C) of each denomination are combined with the first storage process shown by the thick line in FIG. After storing in the storage area 48 directly under each of them by the same route, the storage cassette unit 51 is provided by the transport paths 61A, 61G, 61A, 61C to 61F by the same route as the second storage process shown by the thick line in FIG. Performs distribution processing from. As a result, the banknotes of the denomination to be stored in the storage area 48 of the temporary storage 41 (D) and the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage 41 (A) to 41 (C) could not be stored. The overflow bills can be distributed and stored in the corresponding storage area 48 of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) via the temporary storage area 47 in the open state of the flapper 43. In the second modification, any of the temporary storage areas 47 of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) can be set as the temporary storage unit for temporary storage of rejected banknotes. According to the second modification, since the storage cassette unit 51 is for temporarily storing overflow bills, a large amount of overflow bills can be temporarily stored at the time of deposit processing.

[Modification 3]
For the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) at four locations and the storage cassette unit 51 at one location, one of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) is designated as one of the specified payments. It will be a collective temporary storage section for temporary storage of overflow banknotes of all denominations and all remaining denominations, and will be used for storing these banknotes. Further, the storage cassette unit 51 is used for temporarily storing rejected banknotes.

With this configuration, during the deposit processing along the route shown by the thick solid line in FIG. 2, all the banknotes of the specific one denomination and the overflow banknotes of all the remaining denominations identified by the identification unit 31 are transferred to the transport path 61A. , 61C to 61F, temporarily store the rejected banknotes identified by the identification unit 31 in the temporary storage area 47 of the corresponding one of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D). It is temporarily stored in the storage cassette section 51 at 61A. As a result, it is not necessary to transport the rejected banknotes to the withdrawal / return unit 21 while the banknotes are being transported from the deposit unit 20 to the identification unit 31, and the rejected banknotes of the storage cassette unit 51 are collected at the end of the deposit process. It can be transported to the withdrawal return unit 21. Therefore, as in the first modification, in order to convey the rejected banknotes identified by the identification unit 31 to the withdrawal / return unit 21, it is not necessary to interrupt the withdrawal of the deposit unit 20 in the middle.

In the third modification, in the storage process after the deposit process, the banknotes are taken from the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D), and the route is the same as that of the first storage process shown by the thick line in FIG. Then, it is stored in the storage area 48 directly under each of them. As a result, the storage processing time can be shortened. It is also possible to set any of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) for temporary storage and storage of all the banknotes of the specific one denomination and the overflow banknotes of all the remaining denominations. ..

For example, the temporary storage storage 41 (D) is used for temporary storage and storage of all of the fourth denomination banknotes (for example, 2,000 yen bills) having a small market circulation volume and overflow banknotes of all the remaining denominations. That is, the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (D) is used as a temporary storage area for temporary storage of all the banknotes of the fourth denomination and the overflow banknotes of all the remaining denominations, and the temporary storage storage 41 The storage area 48 of (D) is used as a collective storage area for storing all the banknotes of the fourth denomination and the overflow banknotes of all the remaining denominations. Further, the temporary storage storage 41 (A) is used for temporary storage and storage for the first denomination (for example, a 10,000 yen ticket), and the temporary storage storage 41 (B) is used for the second denomination (for example, a 5000 yen ticket). Temporary storage and storage for temporary storage and storage 41 (C) for temporary storage and storage for the third denomination (for example, 1000 yen ticket), and storage cassette section 51 for temporary storage of rejected banknotes. Deposit processing is performed by the route shown by the thick solid line in FIG.

Also in the modified example 3, in the return process at the time of payment cancellation, the temporary storage area portion 47 of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) and the temporary storage area portion 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (A) to 41 (D) are taken by the route shown by the thick line in FIG. 5 as in the first embodiment. All the banknotes of the storage cassette unit 51 will be paid out to the withdrawal / return unit 21.

Further, in the storage process at the time of payment confirmation, the bills stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (A) to 41 (D) of each denomination are stored in the storage area 48 directly under the flapper 43 in the open state. To store in. As a result, in the temporary storage storage 41 (D), all the banknotes of the specific one denomination and the overflow banknotes of all the remaining denominations are stored in the storage area 48. In this way, if there is an overflow bill in the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (D) at the time of payment confirmation, the overflow bill is directly below the temporary storage area 47 with the flapper 43 open. Since it is stored in the storage area 48 of the banknote, the processing time of the storage process at the time of payment confirmation can be further shortened.

Alternatively, one of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) may be used for temporary storage and storage exclusively for overflow bills. It is also possible to set any of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) for temporary storage and storage exclusively for overflow bills. For example, the temporary storage storage 41 (D) is used for temporary storage and storage dedicated to overflow bills, and the temporary storage storage 41 (A) is used for temporary storage and storage for the first denomination (for example, a 10,000-yen note). Temporary storage storage 41 (B) is used for temporary storage and storage for the third denomination (for example, 1000 yen ticket), and temporary storage storage 41 (C) is used for the second and fourth denominations (for example, 5000 yen ticket). And for temporary storage and storage for (2,000 yen ticket). Further, the storage cassette unit 51 is used for temporarily storing rejected banknotes.

In this case as well, the rejected banknotes of the storage cassette unit 51 are transported to the withdrawal / return unit 21 at the end of the deposit process, and at the time of the return process, the temporary storage storage 41 is carried out in the same manner as in the first embodiment. All the banknotes of the temporary storage area section 47 and the storage cassette section 51 of (A) to 41 (D) are sent out to the withdrawal return section 21. Further, when the payment is confirmed, as a storage process, the flappers 43 of the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (A) to 41 (D) are opened, and the banknotes of the temporary storage area 47 are respectively opened. It is stored in the storage area 48 directly under the.

Alternatively, one of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) may be used for temporary storage and storage of all the banknotes of a specific plurality of denominations and the overflow banknotes of all the remaining denominations. It is also possible to set any of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) for all the banknotes of a specific plurality of denominations and the overflow banknotes of all the remaining denominations. For example, the temporary storage storage 41 (D) is used for temporary storage and storage of all overflow bills of the second and fourth denominations (for example, 5,000-yen and 2,000-yen bills) and all remaining denominations. , Temporary storage storage 41 (A) is for temporary storage and storage for the first denomination (for example, 10,000 yen ticket), and temporary storage storage 41 (B) is for the first denomination (for example, 10,000 yen ticket). It will be used for temporary storage and storage, and the temporary storage storage 41 (C) will be used for temporary storage and storage for the third denomination (for example, 1000 yen note). Further, the storage cassette unit 51 is used for temporarily storing rejected banknotes.

In this case as well, the rejected banknotes of the storage cassette unit 51 are transported to the withdrawal / return unit 21 at the end of the deposit process, and at the time of the return process, the temporary storage storage 41 is carried out in the same manner as in the first embodiment. All the banknotes of the temporary storage area section 47 and the storage cassette section 51 of (A) to 41 (D) are sent out to the withdrawal return section 21. Further, when the payment is confirmed, as a storage process, the flappers 43 of the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (A) to 41 (D) are opened, and the banknotes of the temporary storage area 47 are respectively opened. It is stored in the storage area 48 directly under the.

[Modification example 4]
Regarding the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) at four locations and the storage cassette unit 51 at one location, one of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) is the temporary storage area portion 47. Is used for temporary storage of rejected banknotes, and the storage area 48 immediately below the temporary storage area 47 is used for storing all the banknotes of the specified one denomination and the overflow banknotes of all the remaining denominations. Further, the storage cassette unit 51 is used as a collective temporary storage unit for temporarily storing all the banknotes of the specified one denomination and the overflow banknotes of all the remaining denominations.

With this configuration, during the deposit processing along the route shown by the thick solid line in FIG. 2, the rejected banknotes identified by the identification unit 31 are temporarily stored and stored 41 (A) to 61F in the transport paths 61A, 61C to 61F. Temporarily store in one temporary storage area 47 for rejected banknotes of 41 (D), and overflow banknotes of all the specified one denomination and all remaining denominations identified by the identification unit 31. It is temporarily stored in the storage cassette section 51 in the transport path 61A. As a result, it is not necessary to transport the rejected banknotes to the withdrawal / return unit 21 while the banknotes are being transported from the deposit unit 20 to the identification unit 31, and the return process shown by the thick line in FIG. 5 is summarized at the end of the deposit process. The rejected banknotes of the storage cassette unit 51 can be transported to the withdrawal / return unit 21 by the same route as in. Therefore, in order to transport the rejected banknotes identified by the identification unit 31 to the withdrawal / return unit 21, it is not necessary to interrupt the withdrawal of the deposit unit 20 in the middle.

For example, a temporary storage storage 41 (D) having a storage area 48 for storing all of the fourth denomination banknotes (for example, 2,000 yen bills) having a small market circulation volume and overflow banknotes of all the remaining denominations. The storage area section 47 is used for temporary storage of rejected banknotes, and the storage cassette section 51 is used for temporary storage of all the banknotes of the fourth denomination and the overflow banknotes of all the remaining denominations, which are not widely distributed in the market. Make a deposit by the route shown. Then, at the end of the deposit process, the rejected banknotes of the temporary storage area section 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (D) are transported to the withdrawal / return section 21.

In the modified example 4, in the return processing at the time of payment cancellation, the temporary storage area portion 47 of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) and the temporary storage area portion 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (A) to 41 (D) are taken by the route shown by the thick line in FIG. All the banknotes of the storage cassette unit 51 will be paid out to the withdrawal / return unit 21.

Further, in the first storage process after the deposit process, the banknotes from the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (A) to 41 (C) of each denomination are directly under each of them by the route shown by the thick line in FIG. It is stored in the storage area 48 of the above. Then, in parallel with this first storage process, a second storage process is performed, and the banknotes of the specified one denomination of the storage cassette unit 51 are subjected to the transport paths 61A, 61G, 61A, 61F along the route shown by the thick line in FIG. The overflow bills of all and the remaining denominations are stored in the denomination mixing storage area 48 of the temporary storage storage 41 (D) via the temporary storage area 47 in which the flapper 43 is open. At this time, since the payment has already been confirmed, even if there is a bill equivalent to the reject, it may be forcibly stored in the storage area 48 of the temporary storage storage 41 (D). It should be noted that any of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) is for temporary storage of rejected banknotes and for storing all the banknotes of the specified one denomination and overflow banknotes of all the remaining denominations. It is also possible to set.

[Modification 5]
First, the branch gates of the transport paths 61C to 61F branching from the transport path 61A are introduced into the corresponding ones of the transport paths 61C to 61F by introducing banknotes from the identification unit 31 toward the storage cassette unit 51 on the transport path 61A. In addition to the same sorting as in the embodiment, the banknotes heading from the storage cassette unit 51 to the identification unit 31 on the transport path 61A are introduced into the corresponding ones of the transport paths 61C to 61F, and are configured by a three-way gate capable of sorting. .. As a result, as shown by the thick line in FIG. 17, the banknotes drawn out from the storage cassette section 51 can be moved from the transport path 61A to the transport paths 61C to 61F without going through the identification unit 31. It can be sorted and stored in A) to 41 (D).

With this configuration, in addition to the transport route described in the first embodiment, for example, when the denomination of the overflow bill temporarily stored in the storage cassette section 51 is a single denomination, the operation of the second storage process is performed. In addition, the storage cassette unit 51 can be directly transported from the storage cassette unit 51 to the corresponding items of the temporary storage storage units 41 (A) to 41 (D) of each denomination without being identified by the identification unit 31. In this case, it is a condition that the amount of overflow bills temporarily stored in the storage cassette section 51 is less than the storable remaining capacity of the transport destination of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D). ..

Further, in the second storage process when the denominations of the overflow banknotes are a plurality of denominations, the identification unit 31 identifies and operates the distribution process by the route shown by the thick line in FIG. 4 as in the first embodiment. Good, but based on the order information of the denominations stored in the memory by the control unit 71, the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (A) to 41 (directly by the route shown by the thick line in FIG. 17 that does not pass through the identification unit 31). It may be distributed and transported to the corresponding one of D). Also in this case, the amount of each denomination of the overflow bills temporarily stored in the storage cassette section 51 is less than the storable remaining capacity of the transport destination of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D). It is a condition that there is.

According to the fifth modification, in the operation of the second storage process of the overflow bill, the bill is transferred from the storage cassette unit 51 to the target one of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) by the shortest route. Since it can be transported, the processing time is shortened. Moreover, since the transport distance is short, it is possible to suppress the occurrence of jam.

[Modification 6]
The branch gates of the transport paths 61C to 61F that branch from the transport path 61A are composed of the same three-way gates as in the modified example 5. Further, one of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) provided with the three-way gate, for example, the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (D) is used for the mixed denomination. do. As a result, the reject banknotes and overflow banknotes generated in the deposit process can be separated and temporarily stored.

That is, as shown by the thick solid line in FIG. By roads 61A and 61F, the banknotes of this denomination are transported to the temporary storage area 47 (D) of the temporary storage storage 41 (D) of the denomination (2,000 yen ticket), which has a small number of denominations in the market, and to the identification unit 31. The rejected banknotes identified as unacceptable are transported to the storage cassette section 51 by the transport path 61A as shown by the thick solid line to the thick broken line in FIG. Then, after all the banknotes have been drawn out from the deposit section 20, as shown by the thick broken line in FIG. 11, the rejected banknotes of the storage cassette section 51 are sent to the withdrawal return section 21 by the transport paths 61A, 61G, 61A, 61M, 61K. And transport. When the rejected banknotes transported to the withdrawal return unit 21 are set in the deposit unit 20 again, the deposit process is performed.

After the payment is confirmed, if there are multiple denominations of overflow bills and there is no denomination to be stored in the storage area 48 of the temporary storage storage 41 (D), as shown by the thick solid line in FIG. 19, the temporary storage storage The banknotes drawn out from the temporary storage area 47 of 41 (D) are transported to the identification unit 31 by the transport paths 61F, 61A, 61H, 61G, 61A, identified by the identification unit 31, and are temporarily stored and stored by denomination. It is distributed and transported to 41 (A) to 41 (C) for storage. When the overflow bill is a single denomination other than the denomination stored in the storage area 48 of the temporary storage storage 41 (D), the temporary storage storage 41 (as shown by the thick line in FIG. 20) Banknotes drawn out from the temporary storage area section 47 of D) are stored in the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) of each denomination by the transport paths 61F, 61A, 61C to 61E without going through the identification unit 31. Can be stored in the corresponding item.

Here, the banknotes of the fourth denomination and the overflow banknotes of other denominations to be stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (D) and the storage area 48 of the temporary storage storage 41 (D) If there is, after storing all the banknotes in the temporary storage area section 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (D) in the storage cassette section 51 along the transport paths 61F and 61A as shown by the thick line in FIG. 21, FIG. 4 shows. The distribution process from the storage cassette unit 51 is performed by the second storage process along the route indicated by the thick line. Any of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) may be used for storing overflowed banknotes and a specific denomination.

Alternatively, overflow bills and banknotes of a specific denomination are temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the rightmost temporary storage storage 41 (A), and the banknotes of the specific denomination are stored in the storage area 48 immediately below the overflow bills. During the storage process, the overflow bills and the bills of the specific denomination are stored in the temporary storage region portion 47 of the temporary storage storage 41 (A) to the transport portion 61 shown by a thick solid line in FIG. By transporting the loop-shaped banknote transport route counterclockwise, the banknotes of each denomination can be stored in the temporary storage storages 41 (B) to 41 (D) of other denominations, and the storage cassette section. The banknotes in the temporary storage storage 41 (A) are stored in the temporary storage storage 41 (A), and then the banknotes in the temporary storage storage 41 (A) in the storage cassette unit 51 are stored in the temporary storage storage 41 (A). Alternatively, after transporting the overflow bills of the temporary storage area 47 of the rightmost temporary storage storage 41 (A) and the bills of a specific denomination to the storage cassette section 51, the distribution operation from the storage cassette section 51 is performed. You may go.

According to the modification 6, the temporary storage area 47 of any one of the temporary storage storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) of each denomination is used as a collective temporary storage unit for mixed denominations. It is possible to separate the reject bills for temporary storage and the overflow bills for temporary storage. As a result, it is possible to control that the rejected banknotes are temporarily stored in the storage cassette section 51 and then sent out to the withdrawal / return section 21 at once, and the intermittent operation in the receipt of deposits can be eliminated, so that the processing time can be shortened and jam occurs. Can be suppressed.

11 Banknote processing machine 20 Deposit section 21 Withdrawal return section (withdrawal section)
31 Identification part 43 Flapper (bottom)
47 Temporary storage area 48 Storage area 51 Storage cassette 71 Control unit (control means)

The first aspect according to the present invention is a deposit section into which loose banknotes are inserted from outside the machine, an identification section for identifying the loose banknotes delivered from the deposit section, an alignment section for accumulating a specified number of loose banknotes, and the like. A temporary storage unit that temporarily stores loose banknotes so that they can be fed out, a binding unit that binds a specified number of loose banknotes accumulated in the alignment unit to create a small bundle, and an operation unit in which an operation input is performed by an operator. A control unit that performs control based on an operation input to the operation unit is provided, and the control unit receives an operation input for local arrangement processing of loose bills set in the deposit unit to the operation unit. A direct transport processing mode in which the banknotes to be bound are transported from the deposit section to the alignment section without passing through the temporary storage section, and then the bundled banknotes are created at the binding section, and the banknotes to be bound are transferred from the deposit section. Select one of the two processing modes, the transport processing mode via the pool, in which the bundled banknotes are created at the binding unit after being transported to the aligning unit via the temporary storage unit. It is characterized by performing local arrangement processing.

Claims (5)

The deposit section where banknotes are inserted from outside the machine,
An identification unit that identifies the bills drawn out from the deposit unit and
Multiple temporary storage areas with openable and closable bottoms that temporarily store banknotes so that they can be fed out,
A plurality of storage area portions provided below the temporary storage area portion and having a bottom open state for receiving and paying out bills from the temporary storage area portion.
A take-out part that allows bills to be taken out of the machine,
A storage cassette unit that can store banknotes and can feed out the stored banknotes,
At the time of deposit processing, the banknotes inserted into the deposit unit are stored in the plurality of temporary storage areas based on the identification result of the identification unit, and at least one of the plurality of temporary storage areas is stored in a predetermined manner. A bill processing machine comprising: a control means for storing overflow bills that cannot be stored in the temporary storage region portion of the predetermined storage state in the storage cassette portion when the state is reached. When the payment is confirmed, the control means stores the banknotes stored in the plurality of temporary storage areas in the plurality of storage areas with the bottom open, and stores the overflow banknotes in the storage cassette in the identification unit. The banknote processing machine according to claim 1, wherein the banknotes are sorted based on the identification result and stored in the plurality of storage areas via the plurality of temporary storage areas. The storage cassette unit
A collective temporary storage area where the bottom can be opened and closed to temporarily store banknotes so that they can be fed out,
It has a collective storage area portion that is provided under the collective temporary storage area portion and has a bottom portion that is open so that bills can be received and fed out from the collective temporary storage area portion.
When the payment is confirmed, the control means stores the banknotes stored in the plurality of temporary storage areas in the plurality of storage areas with the bottom open, and stores the overflow banknotes in the storage cassette in the batch temporary storage. The banknote processing machine according to claim 1, wherein the bottom portion is opened from the region portion and stored in the collective storage region portion. The storage cassette unit
A collective temporary storage area where the bottom can be opened and closed to temporarily store banknotes so that they can be fed out,
It has a collective storage area portion that is provided under the collective temporary storage area portion and has a bottom portion that is open so that bills can be received and fed out from the collective temporary storage area portion.
When the payment is confirmed, the control means stores the banknotes stored in the plurality of temporary storage areas in the plurality of storage areas with the bottom open, and stores the overflow banknotes in the storage cassette in the identification unit. When the next deposit transaction is instructed during a series of operations of sorting based on the identification result and storing the money in the plurality of storage areas via the plurality of temporary storage areas, the series of operations The bill processing machine according to claim 1, wherein the overflow bills remaining in the batch temporary storage region portion of the storage cassette portion are temporarily stored in the batch storage region portion. The storage cassette unit is a storage cassette unit that is removable from the machine body, stores banknotes drawn out from the plurality of storage area parts at the time of collection processing, and is loaded with replenishment banknotes outside the machine. The banknote processing machine according to any one of claims 1 to 4, which is characterized.

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