JP2023065964A - Banknote processor and automatic transaction device - Google Patents

Abstract

To reduce the size of a mounting space and prevent banknotes from being retained outside a collection area.SOLUTION: A banknote processor includes a roller and a lever that prevent collisions between banknotes transported from an upper part of a deposit/withdrawal slot, a wheel that transports the banknotes up to a collection area, and a pressure plate that keeps the banknotes transported into the collection area by the wheel, the roller and the lever in the collection area.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3

Description

The present invention relates to a banknote processing device and an automatic transaction device.

For example, automatic teller machines used in financial institutions are equipped with bill handling devices. The banknote handling device includes a banknote deposit/withdrawal vault, a banknote discrimination section, a temporary storage, a reject banknote storage, a recycling store, a banknote transport branching mechanism, and a banknote transport path.

The banknote deposit/withdrawal vault discharges banknotes to be dispensed to the user, or feeds the deposited banknotes inserted by the user into the device one by one. The banknote discriminating unit discriminates deposited banknotes and dispensed banknotes. The temporary storage stores the deposited banknotes once, and after the user's operation is completed, the banknotes are moved to the recycling box or returned to the deposit/withdrawal vault.

The rejected banknote storage stores rejected banknotes that have been determined by the banknote discriminating section not to meet a predetermined standard. The recycle box stores deposited banknotes and feeds them out as dispensed banknotes. The banknote transport branching mechanism switches between a plurality of connection destinations in order to connect each warehouse. The banknote transport path has a transport guide that guides the banknotes. A banknote transport branching mechanism is provided in the middle of the banknote transport path.

Conventionally, a bill deposit/withdrawal safe has a mechanism for successively paying out deposited bills inserted by a user one by one, or receiving and retaining dispensed bills delivered one by one in the deposit/withdrawal safe. The deposit/withdrawal vault is equipped with a mechanism for feeding bills, which is a combination of two or three types of rollers, and a mechanism for retaining bills transported into the deposit/withdrawal vault.

For stacking the conveyed banknotes, in addition to the roller combination mechanism described above, for example, Patent Document 1 and Patent Document 2 disclose a stacking mechanism using an impeller-shaped wheel.

JP 2011-180732 A JP 2015-26118 A

In a conventional banknote stacking mechanism using an impeller-shaped wheel, a transport path is installed to transport banknotes from above the wheel, and the transported banknotes are inserted into the impeller portion and sandwiched, and the wheel is rotated at an angle of 90 degrees or more. By rotating, the trailing edge of the sandwiched bills is largely retracted, thereby preventing stacking defects due to collisions with succeeding bills.

Also, the pressing plate is often used together with a stacking mechanism that combines two or three types of rollers. The banknote transport path is installed so that the banknotes are transported from the bottom of the stacking box, and a roller stacking mechanism is installed there. Banknotes conveyed into the stacking chamber from below by the roller stacking mechanism are moved to the stacking area using a pressing plate, and the trajectory of the pressing plate passes right above the roller mechanism that delivers the banknotes.

However, the wheel stacking mechanism requires a certain amount of space to rotate the wheel by 90 degrees or more. The slipped banknotes stay in a place different from the banknote stacking area.

In the trajectory of the pressing plate that passes directly above the conventional roller mechanism, depending on the position of the bills that have been stagnated, they may be pushed into a location different from the range of the stacking unit, and maintenance personnel may not be able to easily find them. There is a problem that it takes time to recover from a failure.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to reduce the size of the mounting space and to prevent banknotes from remaining outside the stacking area.

A banknote processing apparatus according to one aspect of the present invention is a banknote processing apparatus for carrying into a stacking area banknotes transported through a transport path from above a deposit/withdrawal port, wherein A roller and a lever for preventing collision between the conveyed banknotes, a wheel for conveying the banknotes to the stacking area, and a banknote transported into the stacking area by the wheel, the roller and the lever. and a pressure plate for retaining in the accumulation area.

ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to one aspect of the present invention, it is possible to reduce the size of the mounting space and prevent banknotes from remaining outside the stacking area.

It is a perspective view which shows the external appearance of an automatic teller machine. It is a side view of a banknote processing apparatus. 1 is a side view of a schematic configuration of a mechanism of the present invention; FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a schematic configuration of a mechanism of the present invention; FIG. It is the schematic of the banknote conveyance mechanism by a wheel. It is the schematic of the banknote collision prevention mechanism by a lever and a roller. It is the schematic of the banknote collision prevention mechanism by a lever and a roller. It is the schematic of the banknote collision prevention mechanism by a lever and a roller. It is the schematic of the banknote collision prevention mechanism by a lever and a roller. FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of the movement of the pressure plate to the accumulation area;

An embodiment will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing the appearance of an automatic teller machine.
In FIG. 1, an automatic teller machine 100 as an example of an "automatic teller machine" includes a bill processing device 101, a card/statement slip processing device 102, a passbook processing device 103, a user operation unit 104, A body control unit 105 is provided. The banknote processing apparatus 101 receives banknotes from a user and withdraws the banknotes to the user. The card/statement slip processing device 102 processes the card inserted by the user, prints the transaction slip, and releases it.

The passbook processing device 103 records transaction details in the passbook inserted by the user. The user operation unit 104 displays operation guides to the user and accepts input of instructions from the user. The body control unit 105 monitors and controls these devices. Here, banknotes are an example of paper sheets. The banknote handling device 101 for handling banknotes will be described below.

FIG. 2 is a side view of the banknote handling machine 101. As shown in FIG.
The banknote processing apparatus 101 includes a deposit/withdrawal unit 70 , a banknote discrimination unit 71 , a temporary storage unit 72 , a rejection unit 73 , a recycling unit 74 , a banknote transport path 75 , and a control unit 76 . These elements 70-76 are sometimes called units.

The deposit/withdrawal unit 70 is a unit that feeds banknotes inserted by the user into the banknote transport path 75 one by one, stacks the banknotes transported through the banknote transport path 75, and dispenses the banknotes so that the user can take them out. be. 2. Description of the Related Art As a mechanism for feeding bills and stacking bills, there is a device configured with, for example, two or three types of rollers. The stacking mechanism using the rollers is installed below the cash depositing/dispensing section 70 , and accordingly, the conveying path 75 leading to the cash depositing/dispensing section 70 is also installed below the cash depositing/dispensing section 70 .

Banknotes transported from the transport path 75 are transported from the lower part of the deposit/withdrawal unit 70 to the stacking area of the deposit/withdrawal unit 70 by the roller mechanism. Alternatively, banknotes deposited by the user are delivered to the transport path 75 one by one by the roller stacking mechanism. There is also a wheel stacking mechanism (see FIG. 3), which will be described later, as a mechanism for stacking only the conveyed banknotes. In this wheel stacking mechanism, the transport path 75 is provided above the deposit/withdrawal unit 70, and bills transported from the transport path 75 are transported from the top of the deposit/withdrawal unit 70 to the wheel stacking mechanism.

The banknote discriminating unit 71 measures the optical and magnetic characteristics of banknotes and discriminates the denomination and authenticity of the banknotes. Based on the information of the discriminating section 71, bills are distributed to a recycling section 74, a rejecting section 73, and the like.

The temporary storage unit 72 temporarily stores bills until the transaction is established, and stores the bills in the recycling unit 74 when the user approves the transaction. If the user does not accept the transaction, the banknote is conveyed to the deposit/withdrawal unit 70 and returned to the user.

The reject unit 73 is a safe that stores banknotes for which deposit transactions have been established, and stores banknotes that are only deposited and banknotes that are not suitable for handling by the banknote processing apparatus 101 . Banknotes unsuitable for handling by the banknote processing apparatus 101 include banknotes that are torn or folded, and banknotes conveyed in an oblique manner.

The recycling section 74 has an accumulation/separation device for depositing and withdrawing money. The stacking/separating device stores banknotes input by the user, feeds the stored banknotes to the banknote transport path 75 according to the transaction, and dispenses the banknotes to the user. Note that the banknote processing apparatus 101 of FIG. 2 is an example in which one reject section 73 and three recycling sections 74 are mounted. However, the combination of the reject section 73 and the recycle section 74 is arbitrary, and the number of implementations can be freely set.

A transport path 75 transports bills to each unit. The transport path 75 has rollers for transport and a gate for switching directions, and can switch the transport direction of bills for each transaction operation.

The control unit 76 monitors and controls each unit. Control unit 76 is electrically connected to main control unit 105 of automatic teller machine 100 . The control unit 76 controls the banknote processing apparatus 101 according to commands from the main control unit 105 and reports the state of the banknote processing apparatus 101 to the main control unit 105 .

3 and 4 are a side view and a perspective view of a schematic configuration of the wheel stacking mechanism 1 of the banknote processing apparatus mounted in the deposit/withdrawal section 70. FIG.

The wheel stacking mechanism 1 sandwiches banknotes transported in the direction of the arrow from a transport path 75 composed of an upper transport guide 8, a lower transport guide 9, and transport rollers (not shown) installed above the stacking mechanism. , a shuriken-shaped roller 3 and a lever 5 which are mechanisms for preventing collisions between conveyed banknotes, and a pressing plate 4 which also functions as a conveying guide.

At the end of the wheel stacking mechanism 1, there are a stacking area 7 and a partition plate 11 movable according to the number of banknotes conveyed by the wheel 2. As shown in FIG. The two wheels 2 are attached to the same rotating shaft 2a.

The shuriken-shaped roller 3 is attached to the same roller boss as the transport path roller 6b. The roller boss is fitted on a rotating shaft 3a fixed to a sheet metal part (not shown) and has a structure capable of rotating in any direction. The transport roller 6b is in contact with the underlying transport roller 6a. Therefore, the conveying roller 6b and the shuriken-like roller 3 rotate together in accordance with the rotation of the conveying roller 6a.

The lever 5 is attached to an independent rotating shaft 5a, and is held in a state of protruding from the surface of the pressing plate 4 by a spring (not shown) when the banknote is not being conveyed. When bills are being conveyed, the structure is such that it can move downward as the bills pass. The pressing plate 4 is positioned so as to cover the rotary shaft 2a to which the wheel 2 is assembled and the rotary shaft 6c to which the conveying roller 6a is assembled. concurrently. The pressing plate 4 itself is fixed to a shaft (not shown) and is structured to move back and forth according to the movement of this shaft.

A stacking area 7 indicates an area where conveyed banknotes are retained in the wheel stacking mechanism 1 , and the upper portion is connected to the opening/closing port of the deposit/withdrawal section 70 as it is. The partition plate 11 is movable according to the contents of the transaction. For example, when depositing money, the partition plate 11 moves toward the wheel stacking mechanism to secure the deposit port, and when dispensing money, it moves in the opposite direction to create a space for the bills to be dispensed to stay. .

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of a banknote transport mechanism using wheels 2. As shown in FIG.
The upper conveying guide 8 has an arcuate shape such that the front thereof follows the outer circumference of the conveying roller 6a. As a result, the banknotes 12 conveyed from the conveying path 75 are nipped between the conveying rollers 6a and the conveying rollers 6b (not shown), and travel along the arc shape of the upper conveying guide 8 in the direction in which the wheels 2 are installed. , and conveyed to the wheel 2 so as to follow the obliquely attached surface of the pressing plate 4. - 特許庁

The wheel 2 rotates similarly to the transport roller 6a when the bill 12 is transported, and its control is performed through the controller 76 of the device. The bills 12 conveyed from the conveying rollers 6a are nipped one by one in the gaps between the vane-shaped portions of the wheel 2, and the longitudinal portions of the bills 12 come into contact with the bottom plate 10 to separate from the wheel 2 and be placed in the stacking area 7. It stays in the accumulating area 7 by the partition plate 11 which is formed.

At this time, the partition plate 11 is controlled to move in the direction of the arrow in the figure according to the number of bills 12 conveyed. It can prevent collisions in the space between them.

While the wheels 2 transport the banknotes 12 from the transport rollers 6a and 6b to the stacking area 7, the banknotes 12 are only sandwiched between the wing-shaped portions of the wheels 2 and are in a state where they can easily come off the wheels 2.例文帳に追加

Therefore, the longer the transport time by the wheel 2 (the larger the rotation angle of the wheel), the higher the risk that the banknote 12 will drop out on the way. In the prior art, since the bill 12 plunges into the wheel 2 at an angle of 90 degrees, reducing the above risk has been a problem.

Therefore, in the embodiment of the present invention, the wheel 2, the conveying roller 6a, and the pressing plate 4 are installed so that the bill 12 conveyed to the wheel 2 has a shallow angle α of less than 90 degrees. As a result, the transport time of the wheel 2 can be shortened, and stacking troubles due to the bills 12 coming off during transport can be reduced.

Here, the plunging angle α of the banknotes 12 conveyed to the wheel 2 is preferably 10 degrees or more and 60 degrees or less, for example, 30 degrees.

6A to 6D are schematic diagrams of the banknote collision prevention mechanism using the lever 5 and the shuriken-like roller 3. FIG. The banknote collision to be solved by this mechanism is the collision between the trailing edge of a banknote positioned in front and the leading edge of a banknote following that banknote. When this banknote collision occurs, banknotes stay around the collision point and become an obstacle. The banknote collision prevention mechanism will be described below.

As shown in FIG. 6A, the lever 5 is assembled with an independent rotating shaft 5a (see FIG. 3) and a spring (not shown), and is positioned so as to protrude from the surface of the pressing plate 4 until bills are conveyed. ing.

Next, as shown in FIG. 6B, when the bill 12 conveyed from the conveying path 75 passes through the lever 5, the bill 12 is moved counterclockwise around the rotating shaft 5a by the force applied from the bill 12, and the bill It becomes a state along the surface of 12.

Next, as shown in FIG. 6C, the shuriken-shaped roller 3 is mounted on the same rotating shaft as the conveying roller 6b (not shown) which is in contact with the conveying roller 6a, and the rear end of the bill 12 is positioned above the lever 5. 6A, the lever 5 tries to return to the state shown in FIG. 6A due to the restoring force of the spring attached to the lever 5. At that time, the trailing end of the banknote 12 is lifted according to the movement of the lever 5.例文帳に追加

Specifically, as shown in FIG. 6D, the trailing edge of the bill 12 is lifted with respect to the leading edge. The trailing edge of the banknote 12 lifted by the restoring force of the lever 5 is further lifted by the leading end of the shuriken-shaped roller 3 which is rotating as it is, and is conveyed to the wheel 2.例文帳に追加

The trailing edge of the succeeding banknote is lifted by the lever 5 and the shuriken-shaped roller 3 as described above. Through this series of operations, it is possible to prevent collisions with the leading edge of subsequent banknotes and reduce banknote retention problems.

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of the movement of the pressing plate.
During bill transport, the pressing plate 4 is installed so as to cover the rotating shaft of the wheel 2 and the rotating shaft of the transport roller 6a. After the banknotes have been conveyed, as shown in FIG. 7, the wheels 2 are traversed to move to the partition plate 11 position. Specifically, the pressing plate 4 moves in the direction indicated by the arrow, as indicated by 4a to 4b. While the pressing plate 4 is moving from its original position to the position of the partition plate 11, the banknotes remaining in the stacking area 7 are conveyed to the partition plate 11.例文帳に追加

In the conventional stacking mechanism, a roller corresponding to the wheel 2 for conveying banknotes to the stacking area is attached to the bottom of the deposit/withdrawal unit. Therefore, due to the structure, the pressing plate can only pass directly above the rollers, and banknotes that have not been correctly conveyed to the stacking area (for example, banknotes that have been tilted, banknotes that have been banknotes with a reduced weight) may be pushed out of the stacking area by being pushed out of the stacking area by the pressing plate, causing trouble.

However, as in the present invention, by moving the pressing plate 4 so as to traverse the wheel 2 that stacks bills conveyed from above, bills that are stuck in the wheel 2 or that are not properly conveyed are not conveyed. and the partition plate 11 can be conveyed. As a result, bills that have not been transported correctly are not pushed out of the stacking area, which leads to ensuring quality.

In the above-described embodiment, in the stacking device for stacking the conveyed banknotes, the impeller-shaped wheel 2 for transporting the banknotes transported from the upper part of the device to the stacking area and the collision between the transported banknotes are prevented. A shuriken-shaped roller 3 and a lever 5 having a mechanism for flipping up the end of the banknote by the restoring force of a spring assembled with an independent movable shaft, and a wheel for holding the banknote conveyed in the stacking space in the space. and a pressure plate 4 movable across the outlet.

According to the above-described embodiment, by setting the positional relationship between the wheel 2 and the transport path so that the angle of bills entering the wheel is shallower than 90 degrees, the necessary wheel rotation angle and the transport space to be secured during rotation are determined. can be reduced, leading to downsizing of the device.

According to the above-described embodiment, by flipping up the trailing edge of the banknote with the shuriken-shaped roller 3 and the lever 5, the collision between the banknotes during the banknote transfer on the wheel 2 can be reduced.

According to the above-described embodiment, the pressure plate 4 can be moved across the wheel 2 and the discharge port, so that the accumulated banknotes can be kept within the stacking area, thereby preventing troubles caused by losing track of the abnormally accumulated banknotes. Occurrence can be reduced.

As described above, according to the above-described embodiment, miniaturization can be realized by wheel integration. Furthermore, since the pressing plate traverses the wheel, even if bills fly out, which cannot be avoided in wheel stacking, the bills remain in the stacking area, ensuring quality and reducing recovery time.

In addition, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and includes various modifications.

For example, the positional relationship between the transport path 75 and the wheel 2 may be changed so that the angle is shallower in the space of the mounting location. As a result, the angle at which the wheel 2 is rotated is reduced, and it is possible to further reduce the possibility that the banknotes are separated during transportation.

For example, the number of projections on the outer peripheral shape of the shuriken-shaped roller 3 may be increased or decreased according to the space of the mounting location. Also, the shape may be changed so that the transport guide plays the role of the lever 5 . As a result, simplification of the configuration and improvement of functions can be expected.

In the above embodiment, the shuriken-shaped roller 3 has been described as an example, but the present invention is not limited to this, and other shapes or members may be adopted as long as collision between bills can be avoided.

In the above embodiment, the impeller-shaped wheel 2 has been described as an example, but the present invention is not limited to this, and other shapes or members can be used as long as the bills that have been conveyed can be conveyed to the stacking area. may be adopted.

1 wheel stacking mechanism 2 wheel 3 shuriken-like roller 4 pressing plate 5 lever 6a transport roller 6b transport roller 7 stacking area 8 upper transport guide 9 lower transport guide 10 bottom plate 11 partition plate 12 transport bills

Claims (13)

A banknote processing apparatus for carrying into a stacking area banknotes transported from above a deposit/withdrawal port via a transport path,
a roller and a lever for preventing the banknotes conveyed from above the deposit/withdrawal port from colliding with each other;
a wheel for transporting the banknotes to the stacking area;
a pressing plate for holding the banknotes conveyed into the stacking area by the wheel, the roller and the lever in the stacking area;
A banknote handling apparatus, comprising: The wheel is
2. The banknote processing apparatus according to claim 1, having an impeller shape capable of holding said banknotes. The roller
Having a shuriken shape capable of lifting the rear end of the bill,
2. The banknote handling apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an independent rotating shaft so as to follow the movement of the banknote being conveyed. The lever is
having an independent shaft and having a mechanism for flipping up the trailing end of the banknote with the restoring force of an assembled spring;
4. The banknote processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the lever and the roller cooperate to prevent the banknotes from colliding with each other. 5. The banknote processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the banknotes are prevented from colliding with each other when the banknotes are conveyed on the wheel by flipping up the rear end of the banknotes via the roller and the lever. . Cooperating operation of the lever and the roller prevents collision of the bills between the trailing end of the preceding banknote positioned in front and the leading end of the following banknote following the preceding banknote. 5. The banknote processing apparatus according to claim 4. When the trailing end of the preceding banknote passes over the lever, the restoring force of the spring lifts the trailing end of the preceding banknote in accordance with the movement of the lever;
By further lifting the trailing edge of the preceding banknote that has been lifted up by the leading edge of the rotating roller, the trailing edge of the leading banknote and the leading edge of the following banknote are prevented from colliding. The banknote processing apparatus according to claim 6. The pressing plate is
Having a movable mechanism movable to traverse the outlet of the conveying path and the wheel,
The movable mechanism is
2. The banknote processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the banknotes that are staying are kept in the stacking area. further comprising a partition plate movable according to the number of bills conveyed by the wheel;
The pressing plate is
After the banknotes have been conveyed, the partition plate is moved across the wheel to the position of the partition plate,
9. The banknote processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the banknotes remaining in the stacking area are conveyed to the partition plate while moving to the position of the partition plate. The wheels and the transport path are
2. The banknote processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a positional relationship is set such that an angle at which the banknote enters the wheel is shallower than 90 degrees. The plunging angle of the banknote is
11. The banknote processing apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the angle is 10 degrees or more and 60 degrees or less. An automated teller machine comprising the banknote processing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 11. The banknote processing device
13. The automated teller machine according to claim 12, wherein the banknotes are received from a user and the banknotes are dispensed to the user.

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