JP2023048633A - Medium processing device and medium processing method - Google Patents

Abstract

To improve reliability.SOLUTION: A medium processing device comprises: a storage unit stored amount detection unit 30 that detects the total amount of bills stored in a bill cassette 26, a replenish recovery cassette 28, and a reject cassette 22 during a cash storage operation for storing bills put into a bill depositing/dispensing unit 16 in the bill cassette 26, the replenish recovery cassette 28, and the reject cassette 22; and a storage unit stored amount return unit 32 that conveys and returns bills equal to the total amount from the bill depositing/dispensing unit 16 to the bill depositing/dispensing unit 16 when a conveyance abnormality such as jamming occurs during conveyance of the bills to the bill cassette 26, the replenish recovery cassette 28, and the reject cassette 22.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a medium processing device and a medium processing method, and is suitable for application to, for example, an automatic teller machine that inserts media such as banknotes and performs desired transactions.

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, automatic teller machines and the like used in financial institutions, shops, and the like deposit cash such as banknotes and coins to customers, and withdraw cash to customers, for example, according to the content of transactions with customers. An automated teller machine includes, for example, a banknote depositing/dispensing unit that receives and receives banknotes from a customer, a discrimination unit that discriminates the denomination and authenticity of inserted banknotes, and a temporary storage of the inserted banknotes. a temporary storage unit for storing banknotes, a transport unit for transporting banknotes, and a banknote cassette for storing banknotes by denomination (for example, see Patent Document 1).

JP 2013-25606 A

In the automatic teller machine as such a medium processing device, even if an abnormality occurs during the storage operation, which is the operation for storing the bills inserted in the bill depositing/dispensing unit into the bill cassette, the money can be deposited. It is desirable to recognize and maintain authenticity the denomination of denominated banknotes.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in consideration of the above points, and intends to propose a medium processing apparatus and a medium processing method capable of improving reliability.

In order to solve this problem, in the medium processing apparatus of the present invention, there are provided a transport section for transporting a medium, a receiving section connected to the transport section for feeding out the medium inserted by the user to the transport section, and a receiving section connected to the transport section. a discharge unit for accumulating media to be discharged to a user; a discrimination unit provided on the transport unit for discriminating media; a storage unit connected to the transport unit for storing media; When the medium is stored in the storage unit, the storage unit storage amount detection unit detects the total amount of the media stored in the storage unit. A return unit for the amount stored in the storage unit is provided for conveying the amount of media from the storage unit to the discharge unit and returning the medium.

Further, in the medium processing method of the present invention, there are provided a transport section for transporting the medium, a receiving section connected to the transport section for feeding the medium inserted by the user to the transport section, and a medium feeding section connected to the transport section for discharging the medium to the user. A medium processing method for a medium processing device having a discharge section for stacking media to be collected, a discriminating section provided on a conveying section for discriminating the medium, and a storage section connected to the conveying section for storing the medium, The medium processing device includes a storage portion stored amount detection step of detecting the total amount of the media stored in the storage portion during an operation in which the media loaded into the receiving portion are stored in the storage portion, and a medium is conveyed to the storage portion. and a return step for returning the amount of money stored in the storage unit by transporting the media for the total amount from the storage unit to the discharge unit and returning the medium when a transport abnormality occurs when the medium is loaded.

According to the present invention, the total amount of media stored in the storage unit can be returned to the user when a transport error occurs.

ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, the medium processing apparatus and medium processing method which can improve reliability are realizable.

Fig. 2 is a left side view showing the configuration of the banknote depositing/dispensing machine; 1 is a block diagram showing the functional configuration of a banknote depositing/dispensing machine; FIG. It is a flow chart which shows a payment processing procedure.

EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION Hereinafter, the form (it is mentioned as embodiment below) for implementing invention is demonstrated using drawing.

[1. Internal configuration of banknote deposit/withdrawal machine]
As shown in FIG. 1, a banknote deposit/withdrawal machine 10 is provided inside, for example, an automatic teller machine installed in a financial institution or the like, and performs deposit transactions and transactions with users (that is, customers of the financial institution). It is a self-service deposit/withdrawal machine that performs cash-related transactions such as withdrawal transactions. Hereinafter, the side of the banknote depositing/dispensing machine 10 facing the customer is referred to as the front side, the opposite side is referred to as the rear side, and the left and right sides as viewed from the user facing the front side are referred to as the left side and the right side, respectively, and the upper side and the lower side. Define and describe a side.

In the banknote deposit/withdrawal machine 10, the control unit 12 controls each unit (the banknote deposit/withdrawal unit 16, the transport unit 24, the discrimination unit 18, the temporary holding unit 20, the banknote cassette 26, the replenishment/collection cassette 28, and the reject cassette 22). The control unit 12 is mainly composed of a CPU (Central Processing Unit) (not shown), and controls each unit by reading and executing a predetermined program from a ROM (Read Only Memory), a flash memory, etc. (not shown). Various processes such as deposit transactions and withdrawal transactions are performed. The control unit 12 also has a storage unit such as a RAM (random access memory), a hard disk drive, a flash memory, etc., and stores various information in this storage unit.

Inside the banknote depositing/dispensing machine 10, a banknote depositing/dispensing unit 16 as a depositing/dispensing unit for receiving banknotes to be deposited by a customer and ejecting banknotes to be dispensed to the customer, and denominations and authenticity of banknotes are provided on the upper side. A discrimination unit 18 for judging counterfeiting, a temporary holding unit 20 for temporarily holding deposited banknotes, etc., and a reject cassette 22 for storing damaged banknotes (so-called unfit banknotes) and banknotes discriminated by the discrimination unit 18 are provided. It is The reject cassette 22 also stores non-reusable banknotes, such as 5,000-yen banknotes, which are discriminated by the discriminating unit 18 as banknotes of a denomination set not to be recycled.

The conveying unit 24 conveys rectangular banknotes in the short side direction along a conveying path indicated by a line in the figure using rollers, belts, or the like (not shown). The transport unit 24 transports banknotes so as to pass through the discrimination unit 18 in the front-rear direction. A cassette 28 is connected. Further, the transport section 24 connects the front side of the discrimination section 18 to the banknote deposit/withdrawal section 16 , the banknote cassette 26 and the replenishment/collection cassette 28 .

The discriminating unit 18 discriminates the denomination, authenticity, degree of damage (fitness), etc. of the banknote using an optical element, a magnetic detection element, etc. while conveying the banknote inside, and outputs the discrimination result. The controller 12 is notified. In response to this, the control unit 12 determines the transport destination of the banknote based on the obtained discrimination result.

The temporary holding unit 20 temporarily holds banknotes that the customer has put into the banknote depositing/dispensing unit 16 at the time of deposit, and temporarily stores normal banknotes that have been discriminated as depositable by the discriminating unit 18 until the deposit is confirmed. , ejects the rejected banknotes discriminated as non-depositable to the banknote receiving/dispensing unit 16 in a so-called last-in, first-out manner.

Inside the banknote pay-in/pay-out machine 10, a banknote cassette 26 for each denomination and a replenishment/collection cassette 28 are provided on the lower side.

The banknote cassette 26 receives and stores banknotes transported from the transport unit 24 by a storage/ejection mechanism (not shown), and discharges and supplies the stored banknotes to the transport unit 24 . The replenishment/recovery cassette 28 stores banknotes to be replenished to the banknote cassette 26 , supplies banknotes to the transport unit 24 by a storage/ejection mechanism (not shown), and stores banknotes recovered from the banknote cassette 26 . In addition, the replenishment collection cassette 28 stores bills to be stored when the bill cassette 26 becomes full.

Further, the transport unit 24 of the banknote deposit/withdrawal machine 10 according to the present embodiment can transport banknotes from the banknote deposit/withdrawal unit 16 to the banknote cassettes 26, the replenishment/collection cassette 28, and the reject cassette 22. Although banknotes can be transported to the banknote deposit/withdrawal unit 16 , banknotes cannot be transported from the reject cassette 22 to the banknote deposit/withdrawal unit 16 .

In addition, the cassette delivery section, where banknotes are delivered between the transport section 24, the banknote cassettes 26, the replenishment/collection cassette 28, and the reject cassette 22, is equipped with a storage compartment running monitoring sensor (not shown) for detecting the transported banknotes. ) are placed. The storage running monitoring sensor is, for example, an optical sensor, detects the transport state of bills, and sends the detection result to the control unit 12 . Based on the detection result supplied from the storage running monitoring sensor, the control unit 12 detects that the banknotes have been stored in each banknote cassette 26 and that the banknotes have been delivered from each banknote cassette 26 to the transport unit 24. to decide. Further, the control unit 12 determines whether the banknotes have been stored in the replenishment collection cassette 28 or the reject cassette 22 based on the detection result supplied from the storage running monitoring sensor.

[2. Functional Configuration of Banknote Receipt and Disbursement Machine]
FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram showing basic functions related to deposit processing in the banknote deposit/withdrawal machine 10. As shown in FIG.

The storage unit stored amount detection unit 30 corresponds to the control unit 12 ( FIG. 1 ), and the banknotes inserted into the banknote deposit/withdrawal unit 16 are stored in the banknote cassette 26 , the replenishment/collection cassette 28 and the reject cassette 22 . During the storage operation, the total amount of banknotes stored in the banknote cassette 26, the replenishment/collection cassette 28, and the reject cassette 22 is detected.

The storage unit stored amount return unit 32 corresponds to the control unit 12 (FIG. 1), and when the banknotes are transported to the banknote cassette 26, the replenishment collection cassette 28, and the reject cassette 22, a transport abnormality such as a jam occurs. If so, the banknotes for the total amount are transported from the banknote cassette 26 to the banknote deposit/withdrawal unit 16 and returned.

[3. Payment processing]
Next, a specific processing procedure of deposit processing in the banknote pay-in/pay-out machine 10 when a deposit transaction is performed with a customer by the banknote pay-in/pay-out machine 10 will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. In the depositing process, the banknote depositing/dispensing machine 10 first performs a cash counting operation of counting the number of deposited banknotes while discerning the denomination of the deposited banknotes under the control of the control unit 12, and then stores the banknotes in an appropriate storage location. A cash storage operation is carried out to transport the cash to the cash register and store it.

Specifically, the control unit 12 cooperates with a higher-level application as another control unit, so that, for example, when an operation input by a customer to start a deposit transaction is received via an operation display unit (not shown), the ROM By reading out and executing the deposit processing program from , the deposit processing procedure RT1 is started, and the process moves to step SP1. In step SP1, the control unit 12 guides the customer to insert banknotes into the banknote deposit/withdrawal unit 16 by displaying on the operation display unit that banknotes are to be deposited into the banknote deposit/withdrawal unit 16, and instructs the customer to deposit/withdraw banknotes. Bills are inserted into the unit 16, and the process proceeds to step SP2.

When banknotes are inserted into the banknote deposit/withdrawal unit 16, the control unit 12 starts the cash counting operation in step SP2. Specifically, in the cash counting operation, the control unit 12 separates banknotes one by one from the banknote receiving/dispensing unit 16 and sequentially delivers the banknotes to the transport unit 24 . Each banknote is discriminated one by one, and the discrimination result is obtained from the discrimination unit 18 . The control unit 12 determines the degree of damage, denomination, or authenticity of each banknote based on the obtained discrimination result. Next, if each banknote can be recognized as a normal banknote, the control unit 12 determines that it is a received banknote that can continue the subsequent processing. It is determined that the banknote is a reject banknote. Further, the control unit 12 stores normal and reusable banknotes in the banknote cassettes 26 for each denomination of the accepted banknotes, and stores the banknote cassettes 26 for each denomination of banknotes as well as rejected banknotes unsuitable for reuse due to the degree of damage, and 5,000-yen banknotes. The reject cassette 22 is determined as the final transport destination for the non-recycled banknotes that are not recycled. At this time, the control unit 12 determines the replenishment/recovery cassette 28 as the final transport destination when the banknote cassette 26 is full of received banknotes.

Subsequently, the control unit 12, according to the banknote determination result, conveys the accepted banknotes to the temporary storage unit 20 and stores them, and the banknotes that are rejected to be received, transports the banknotes to the banknote deposit/withdrawal unit 16 and returns them to the customer. Then, after confirming the state of the banknotes and reinserting them as necessary, all the banknotes are transported from the banknote receiving/dispensing unit 16 to the transport destination, the process proceeds to step SP3.

In step SP3, the control unit 12 calculates the amount of money to be deposited based on the tally result of the denominations and the number of banknotes received from the banknote deposit/withdrawal unit 16, displays a predetermined operation instruction screen on the operation display unit, and By presenting the amount to the customer and allowing the customer to select whether or not to continue the deposit transaction, it is determined whether or not the customer has selected to continue the deposit transaction. If a positive result is obtained here, this indicates that the customer desires to continue the deposit transaction, and at this time the control section 12 completes the cash counting operation and proceeds to step SP4. On the other hand, if a negative result is obtained in step SP4, this means that the customer does not wish to continue the deposit transaction and, for example, wishes to make an additional deposit. The unit 12 returns to step SP1 and repeats the above-described processing. On the other hand, in step SP4, when the customer instructs to stop the deposit transaction, the control unit 12 causes the transport unit 24 to transport all the banknotes held in the temporary storage unit 20 to the banknote deposit/withdrawal unit 16. return to the customer.

At step SP4, the control unit 12 starts the cash storage operation, and proceeds to step SP5. Specifically, in the cash storage operation, the control unit 12 first starts the dispensing process in the temporary storage unit 20, and sequentially delivers the stored banknotes (deposited banknotes). At this time, the control unit 12 appropriately switches the banknote transport path in the transport unit 24 according to the transport destination of each banknote determined in the cash counting operation, thereby transporting and storing each banknote to each transport destination. . As a result, the control unit 12 classifies reusable ordinary banknotes by denomination and stores them in each banknote cassette 26, and selects rejected banknotes that should not be reused or banknotes of denominations that are set not to be recycled. Some banknotes not to be reused are stored in a reject cassette 22, and banknotes to be stored when the banknote cassette 26 is full are stored in a replenishment collection cassette 28. - 特許庁At this time, the control unit 12 determines the number of banknotes transported to the banknote cassette 26 and the number of banknotes transported to the reject cassette 22 based on the detection results supplied from the storage running monitoring sensor. The number of paper money transported to the reject cassette and the number of bills transported to the replenishment/recovery cassette 28 are counted and stored. In the cash storage operation, the controller 12 controls the banknote cassette 26, the replenishment collection cassette 28 and the reject cassette 28 based on the results of counting the denominations and the number of banknotes stored in the banknote cassette 26, the replenishment collection cassette 28 and the reject cassette 22. The total amount of banknotes stored in the cassette 22 is calculated and stored.

At step SP5, the control section 12 determines whether or not the cash storage operation has been completed normally because no jam, which is a conveyance abnormality in which banknotes are jammed in the conveyance section 24, has occurred. If a positive result is obtained here, this means that no jam occurred during the cash storage operation and that all banknotes have been transported from the temporary storage unit 20 to their respective transport destinations. 12 moves to step SP6. In step SP6, the control unit 12 notifies the host application of the number of bill cassettes conveyed and the number of replenishment/collection cassettes conveyed, and proceeds to step SP7. The banknotes transported and stored in the banknote cassette 26 and the banknotes transported and stored in the replenishment/collection cassette 28 in the cash storage operation are treated as banknotes on the bank side. In step SP7, the control unit 12 normally terminates the deposit transaction, proceeds to step SP15, and terminates the deposit processing procedure RT1.

On the other hand, if a negative result is obtained in step SP5, this means that the cash storage operation did not end normally due to the occurrence of a jam in the transport section 24 during the cash storage operation. goes to step SP8. It is unknown where the jammed banknotes are located at this time. Therefore, the banknotes drawn out from the temporary storage unit 20 are sometimes stored in the replenishment collection cassette 28, the banknote cassette 26 and the reject cassette 22, while they are also located in the transport unit 24. In step SP8, the control unit 12 notifies the host application of the number of sheets conveyed in the reject cassette in addition to the number of sheets conveyed in the banknote cassette and the number of sheets conveyed in the replenishment/collection cassette, and proceeds to step SP9.

When the cash storage operation is not completed normally as described above, the banknotes transported and stored in the banknote cassette 26, the banknotes transported and stored in the replenishment collection cassette 28, and the banknotes transported and stored in the reject cassette 22 These bills must be returned to the customer because they are handled as bills on the customer side. Here, the total number of the bill cassette transported number, the replenishment collection cassette transported number, and the reject cassette transported number notified by the control unit 12 in step SP8 is not recorded in any of the bill cassette 26, the replenishment collection cassette 28, and the reject cassette 22. There may be banknotes that have not been transported and are located in the transport 24 and thus may be less than the total number of banknotes counted in the cash counting operation.

In step SP9, the control unit 12 performs an initial operation of moving the transport unit 24 to transport the banknotes on the transport unit 24 to the banknote deposit/withdrawal unit 16 for failure recovery, and then proceeds to step SP10. In step SP10, the control unit 12 determines whether or not the initial operation has been normally completed by conveying the jammed banknotes to the banknote deposit/withdrawal unit 16. FIG. If a positive result is obtained here, this means that the initial operation has been completed normally, and at this time the control section 12 moves to step SP11.

In step SP11, the control unit 12 conveys the total amount of banknotes stored in the banknote cassette 26, the replenishment/collection cassette 28, and the reject cassette 22 in the cash storage operation from the banknote cassette 26 to the banknote deposit/withdrawal unit 16. A payment operation for returning the money to the customer is performed, and the process proceeds to step SP12. Specifically, in the withdrawal operation, the control unit 12 feeds banknotes from each banknote cassette 26 in accordance with the denomination and delivers the banknotes to the transport unit 24, which transports the banknotes to the banknote deposit/withdrawal unit 16 and delivers the banknotes to the customer. At this time, the control unit 12 draws out not only the banknote itself (actual item) deposited by the customer, but also the banknote from the banknote cassette 26 and transports the banknote to the banknote receiving/dispensing unit 16 . For example, when a customer deposits a 5,000-yen note, the control unit 12 determines that the actual item is stored in the reject cassette 22 and cannot be transported to the banknote deposit/withdrawal unit 16. Instead of returning 5,000 yen bills, five 1,000 yen bills stored in the bill cassette 26 are returned. If the actual item can be returned, for example, when the actual item is stored in the replenishment collection cassette 28, the actual item may be returned preferentially.

In step SP12, the control unit 12 removes the banknotes from the banknote cassette 26 because no jam has occurred in the transport unit 24 and the number of banknotes of the denomination to be dispensed is stored in the banknote cassette 26. 16, it is determined whether or not the withdrawal operation has been completed normally. If a positive result is obtained here, this means that no trouble such as a jam or an insufficient number of coins to be dispensed has occurred during the dispensing operation, and at this time the control section 12 proceeds to step SP13. In step SP13, the control unit 12 decides to redo the deposit transaction, moves to step SP15, and terminates the deposit processing procedure RT1.

On the other hand, if a negative result is obtained in step SP10, this means that the initial operation did not end normally because the jammed bill could not be transported to the bill receiving/dispensing unit 16 during the initial operation. The control unit 12 proceeds to step SP14. On the other hand, if a negative result is obtained in step SP12, this means that a jam has occurred in the transport section 24 during the dispensing operation, or the number of bills of the denomination to be dispensed has not been stored in the bill cassette 26. If not, it means that the withdrawal operation did not end normally, and in this case the control unit 12 proceeds to step SP14. In step SP14, the control section 12 terminates the deposit transaction due to failure, and then the maintenance personnel performs maintenance work.

[4. effects, etc.]
By the way, when the banknotes after the start of the cash storage operation are treated as banknotes on the bank side, and the cash storage operation is not completed normally due to a failure such as a transport abnormality during the cash storage operation, the banknote depositing/dispensing machine 10 It is conceivable that banknotes other than the banknotes stored in the banknote cassette 26 and the banknotes stored in the replenishment/collection cassette 28 are transported to and stored in the reject cassette 22 .

In such a case, the banknote pay-in/pay-out machine 10 notifies the host application of the number of banknote cassettes transported and the number of transported banknote cassettes and the number of transported banknotes in the replenishment/collection cassette. The number of banknotes other than banknotes stored in the replenishment/recovery cassette 28 (that is, the number of banknotes transported in the banknote cassette and the number of replenishment/recovery cassettes transported from the total number counted during the cash counting operation minus the number of banknotes transported in the banknote cassette and the number of replenishment/recovery cassette transported) is counted as the reject cassette. There is an operation of notifying the upper application as the number of sheets to be transported.

However, in such a case, the number of banknotes actually stored in the reject cassette 22 is not notified as the number of paper money transported in the reject cassette, but the number of paper money transported in the reject cassette is assumed to be notified. There was a possibility that the amount of money, which is the monetary value of the money, would become unclear, and there was a risk that the reliability could not be maintained. In addition, in order to clarify the amount of money to be returned to the customer, the bank clerk must visually check the inside of the reject cassette 22 to confirm how many banknotes are stored, forcing the bank clerk to perform complicated work. becomes.

On the other hand, when a failure occurs in the cash storage operation and the cash storage operation is not completed normally, the banknote depositing/dispensing machine 10 transports the banknotes to the banknote cassette 26, and the banknote cassette conveyed number, which is the number of banknotes actually stored, , the number of banknotes transported to the replenishment/collection cassette 28 and actually stored therein, and the number of banknotes transported to the reject cassette 22 and actually stored therein are notified to the host application. I made it Further, the banknote pay-in/pay-out machine 10 conveys banknotes corresponding to the total amount of banknotes stored in the banknote cassette 26, the replenishment/collection cassette 28, and the reject cassette 22 from the banknote cassette 26 to the banknote pay-in/pay-out unit 16 in the cash storage operation. I decided to return it to the customer. Therefore, the banknote pay-in/pay-out machine 10 can set the number of banknotes transported to the reject cassette to the number of banknotes transported to the reject cassette 22 and actually stored therein. As a result, the bill depositing/dispensing machine 10 can clarify the amount of money to be returned to the customer and return the bill.

Furthermore, the banknote pay-in/pay-out machine 10 eliminates the need for the bank clerk to visually check the inside of the reject cassette 22 to confirm how many banknotes are stored, thereby reducing the work of the bank clerk.

According to the above configuration, the banknote depositing/dispensing machine 10 is connected to the transporting unit 24 for transporting banknotes as a medium, and is connected to the transporting unit 24. The banknotes inserted by the user are delivered to the transporting unit 24 and discharged to the user. a banknote depositing/withdrawing unit 16 for stacking banknotes to be collected; a discriminating unit 18 provided on the transport unit 24 for discriminating banknotes; During the cash storage operation in which the banknotes put into the cassette 28, the reject cassette 22, and the banknote deposit/withdrawal unit 16 are stored in the banknote cassette 26, the supplementary recovery cassette 28, and the reject cassette 22, the banknote cassette 26, the supplementary recovery cassette 28, and the reject cassette 22 are stored. A storage unit storage amount detection unit 30 for detecting the total amount of banknotes stored in the reject cassette 22; A return unit 32 for the amount stored in the storage unit is provided for conveying and returning the banknotes for the total amount from the banknote receiving/dispensing unit 16 to the banknote receiving/dispensing unit 16 when a problem occurs.

As a result, the banknote pay-in/pay-out machine 10 can return to the user the total amount of banknotes stored in the banknote cassette 26, the replenishment/collection cassette 28, and the reject cassette 22 when a conveyance abnormality occurs.

[5. Other embodiments]
In the above-described embodiment, if an abnormality occurs during the cash storage operation, the total amount of banknotes stored in the banknote cassette 26, the replenishment/collection cassette 28, and the reject cassette 22 is removed from the banknote cassette during the cash storage operation. 26 to the pay-out banknote deposit/withdrawal unit 16 to return the banknote to the customer. The present invention is not limited to this, and if the configuration is such that banknotes can be transported from the reject cassette 22 to the banknote deposit/withdrawal unit 16, instead of the banknote cassette 26 and the replenishment/collection cassette 28, or the banknote cassette 26 and the replenishment/collection cassette 28 At the same time, banknotes may be transported from the reject cassette 22 to the banknote deposit/withdrawal unit 16 . Also, the actual deposited banknote may be transported from at least one of the banknote cassette 26 , the reject cassette 22 , or the replenishment/collection cassette 28 to the banknote deposit/withdrawal unit 16 . Further, actual deposited banknotes stored in the reject cassette 22 may be preferentially conveyed to the banknote deposit/withdrawal unit 16 over banknotes stored in the banknote cassette 26 .

Further, in the above-described embodiment, there are a depositing unit connected to the transport unit 24 for feeding banknotes deposited by a customer to the transport unit 24, and a dispensing unit connected to the transport unit 24 for stacking banknotes to be discharged to the customer. The case where the present invention is applied to the bill depositing/dispensing machine 10 having the integrally provided bill depositing/dispensing unit 16 has been described. The present invention is not limited to this, and the present invention may be applied to a banknote pay-in/pay-out machine in which a pay-in section and a pay-out section are provided independently of each other and connected to the transport section 24 .

Furthermore, in the embodiment described above, the case where the present invention is applied to the bill depositing/dispensing machine 10 having the bill cassette 26, the replenishment/collection cassette 28, and the rejection cassette 22 has been described. The present invention is not limited to this, and the present invention may be applied to the banknote pay-in/pay-out machine 10 having the banknote cassette 26 and the reject cassette 22 without the replenishment/collection cassette 28 .

Furthermore, in the above-described embodiment, the present invention is applied to the banknote deposit/withdrawal machine 10 which is installed in a financial institution or the like and is a self-service deposit/withdrawal machine that performs cash-related transactions such as deposit transactions and withdrawal transactions by customer's operation. mentioned the case. The present invention is not limited to this, and various devices used by bank employees such as automatic teller cash dispensers (counter terminal) used in banks, automatic cash transaction devices that insert banknotes and perform desired transactions ( The present invention may be applied to an ATM (Automatic Teller Machine) or the like.

Furthermore, in the embodiment described above, the case where the present invention is applied to the banknote depositing/dispensing machine 10 for depositing/dispensing banknotes has been described. The present invention is not limited to this, but may be applied to various devices that handle media having monetary value, such as coins, bonds, certificates, gift certificates, cash vouchers, admission tickets, and the like.

Furthermore, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments described above and other embodiments. That is, the scope of the present invention also extends to embodiments obtained by arbitrarily combining part or all of each of the above-described embodiments with other embodiments described above. Further, the present invention extracts a part of the configuration described in any of the above-described embodiments and other embodiments described above, and The scope of the present invention also extends to the case of substituting or diverting a part of the configuration of any of the embodiments, or adding a part of the extracted configuration to any embodiment. be.

Further, in the above-described embodiment, the transport unit 24 as a transport unit, the banknote deposit/withdrawal unit 16 as a receiving unit, the banknote deposit/withdrawal unit 16 as a discharge unit, the discrimination unit 18 as a discrimination unit, and the A banknote cassette 26, a replenishment/recovery cassette 28, and a reject cassette 22 as units, a storage unit stored amount detection unit 30 as a storage unit stored amount detection unit, and a storage unit stored amount return unit as a storage unit stored amount return unit. 32 constitute the banknote depositing/dispensing machine 10 as a medium processing device. The present invention is not limited to this, and includes a conveying unit, a receiving unit, a discrimination unit, a discharge unit, a storage unit, a storage unit storage amount detection unit, and a storage unit storage amount return unit. The media processing device may be configured by

The present invention can also be used with various devices for inserting media and performing desired transactions.

10 Banknote depositing/dispensing machine 12 Control unit 16 Banknote depositing/dispensing unit 18 Discrimination unit 20 Temporary holding unit 22 Reject cassette 24 Conveying unit 26 Banknote cassette 28 Replenishment/recovery cassette 30 Receiving portion stored amount detecting portion 32 Receiving portion stored amount return portion.

Claims (12)

a transport unit that transports the medium;
a receiving unit that is connected to the transport unit and feeds a medium inserted by a user to the transport unit;
a discharge unit connected to the transport unit and stacking media to be discharged to a user;
a discriminating unit that is provided on the conveying unit and discriminates a medium;
a storage unit that is connected to the transport unit and stores the medium;
a storage unit amount detection unit that detects the total amount of the media stored in the storage unit when the media loaded in the reception unit are stored in the storage unit;
a storage unit stored amount return unit that transports the media for the total amount from the storage unit to the discharge unit and returns them when a transport abnormality occurs when the media are transported to the storage unit. processing equipment. a temporary storage unit that temporarily stores the medium;
a control unit that conveys the medium from the receiving unit to the temporary storage unit while allowing the discrimination unit to identify the medium, and transports the medium from the temporary storage unit to the storage unit according to the type of the medium; further have
The storage unit storage amount detection unit detects the total amount of the media transported from the temporary storage unit and stored in the storage unit,
The storage unit stored amount return unit transports and returns the medium for the total amount from the storage unit to the discharge unit when a transport abnormality occurs when the medium is transported from the temporary storage unit to the storage unit. The media processing device of claim 1 . The storage unit has at least a medium cassette for storing the medium by amount and a reject cassette for storing the medium to be rejected,
The medium processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the storage portion stored amount detection portion detects a total amount of the media stored in the medium cassette and the media stored in the reject cassette. The medium processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the control section notifies another control section of the number of media stored in the medium cassette and the number of media stored in the reject cassette. The storage unit further has a cassette that stores a medium other than the medium stored in the medium cassette and the reject cassette,
4. The storage unit storage amount detection unit detects a total amount of the media stored in the medium cassette, the media stored in the reject cassette, and the media stored in the cassette. A media processing device as described. The storage unit further has a cassette that stores a medium other than the medium stored in the medium cassette and the reject cassette,
The control unit notifies the other control unit of the number of media stored in the medium cassette, the number of media stored in the reject cassette, and the number of media stored in the cassette. The media processing device of claim 3 . The control unit
If a transport abnormality occurs when the medium is transported to the storage unit, an initial operation is performed. While the medium is transported from the storage unit to the discharge unit and returned, if the initial operation is not completed normally, the operation of storing the medium loaded in the receiving unit into the storage unit is terminated due to failure. 3. The media processing device of claim 2. The control unit
When the medium amount corresponding to the total amount is normally transported from the storage section to the ejection section by the storage section stored amount return section, the medium input to the receiving section is stored in the storage section. While the operation is performed again, if the media for the total amount are not normally transported from the storage unit to the discharge unit, the operation of storing the media loaded in the receiving unit into the storage unit is interrupted. 8. The media processing device of claim 7, wherein the media processing device terminates. further comprising a sensor that detects the medium transported from the transport unit to the storage unit;
The medium processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the storage portion stored amount detection portion detects that the medium has been stored in the storage portion based on the detection result of the sensor. The receiving section and the discharging section are integrally provided,
The medium processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the medium processing apparatus is an input/output unit connected to the transport unit, which feeds media inserted by a user to the transport unit and accumulates media to be ejected to the user. the medium is banknotes,
The receiving unit feeds banknotes inserted by a user to the transport unit,
The discharge unit accumulates banknotes to be discharged to the user,
The discrimination unit discriminates the banknotes,
The storage unit stores the banknotes,
The storage unit stored amount detection unit detects the total amount of the banknotes stored in the storage unit when the banknotes inserted in the reception unit are stored in the storage unit, and
The storage unit stored amount return unit transports and returns the banknotes for the total amount from the storage unit to the discharge unit when an abnormality occurs when the banknotes are transported to the storage unit. 2. The media processing device according to 1. a transport unit that transports a medium; a receiving unit that is connected to the transport unit and feeds the medium inserted by the user to the transport unit; and a discharge unit that is connected to the transport unit and stacks the media to be discharged to the user. and a medium processing method for a medium processing device comprising: a discriminating unit provided on the transport unit for discriminating a medium; and a storage unit connected to the transport unit for storing the medium,
The media processing device
a storage unit amount detection step of detecting a total amount of the media stored in the storage unit when the media loaded into the reception unit are stored in the storage unit;
and a step of returning the media for the total amount from the storage unit to the discharge unit and returning the media for the total amount when a transport abnormality occurs when the media are transported to the storage unit. Processing method.

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