JP2532672B2 - Cash deposit / withdrawal device - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a cash deposit / withdrawal device installed in a financial institution or the like.

(Prior Art) Among the counter services and automatic transaction services in financial institutions such as banks, in recent years, cash deposit / withdrawal devices have been widely used for handling cash with customers. In addition, the deposit function and the withdrawal function are integrated, and among the deposited money, the reusable currency for withdrawal is again distributed to the withdrawal type-specific storage and used for withdrawal transaction. A series of cash deposit and withdrawal devices have been announced one after another.

In such a device, first, the money required for the withdrawal transaction is first set in one collective storage box, and the collective storage box is attached to the depositing / dispensing apparatus. After that, by operating the switches for instructing the loading operation, it is possible to automatically distribute and load money from the collective storage into each storage for each type of money arranged for withdrawal. Therefore, the loading operation of the coins only needs to be performed by mounting the collective storage.

Further, when the work is completed, the collecting operation opposite to the loading operation can be performed by operating the switches for instructing the collecting operation.

That is, if the coins are sequentially collected from each money type storage to the batch storage, the only storages to be taken out from the depositing / dispensing device are the batch storage and the reject storage storing the rejected money. In this way, the convenience of the operator is achieved (JP-A-61-289488).

Further, a memory for storing the number of coins counted by the depositing / dispensing device during the loading operation and the collecting operation is provided, and is displayed on the display provided in the operation unit of the apparatus main body. The operator reads this, records it, and inputs the number of sheets to be loaded from the operation section during the loading operation so that the number of sheets to be loaded and the number of sheets to be collected can be managed and operated (Shokai 57-106057). Issue).

<Structure of Conventional Device> The conventional depositing / withdrawing device described in JP-A-61-289488 will be described below with reference to FIG.

FIG. 2 is a sectional view showing an example of a conventional depositing / dispensing device. This device is mounted on the teller terminal device.

The deposit / withdrawal device 105 includes an upper unit 110, an intermediate unit 111,
And the lower unit 112.

The upper unit 110 is provided with a bill insertion slot 113 and a bill ejection slot 114 on the upper front surface. A depositing / separating mechanism 115 for separating the bills that have been thrown in at once and taking in one by one is provided on the bottom side of the input port 113, and one by one behind the input port 113 when viewed from the input port 113. The authenticity, damage, and
On the front and back sides, a discrimination section 116 provided for discriminating and detecting overlapping (overrunning) of two or more sheets and skewing is arranged.
Further, on the rear side thereof, a front / back arrangement mechanism 117 is provided, and in the case of a bill determined to be the back side by the discrimination result of the discrimination unit 116, the switching blade 122 is operated by driving a magnet (not shown), Is switched to be fed to the front and back side aligning mechanism 117 and aligned on the front side.

The traveling path 119 is a conveying path provided to deliver the bills guided and conveyed by the switching gate 123 to the intermediate unit 111, and the traveling path 118 is a traveling path of the lower unit 112 and the intermediate unit 111. This is a transport path for inheriting the banknotes transported by and sending them to the discrimination section 116. Further, when the switching gate 123 operates by driving a magnet (not shown), the banknotes conveyed through the discriminating section 116 are sent to the traveling path 120 and the traveling path 120.
Release stacking part 121 disposed on the back side of the upper surface of the discharge port
Be transported to. The bills conveyed to the discharge accumulation section 121 are accumulated at the discharge port 114, and the teller can collectively extract the bills.

The intermediate unit 111 is mainly a temporary holding section for each denomination and loss, and a stacking section 124,125,126,127 for bills to be taken in and a temporary holding section 128,129,130,131 for each denomination and loss, denomination separating gates 136,137,138,139, and withdrawal reject bill banknotes. It comprises a recess 140 and a runway 141 from the lower unit 112 to the upper unit 110.

At the time of deposit, the banknotes conveyed from the traveling path 119 of the unit 110 are received and are conveyed in the arrow direction by the traveling path 141.

Here, when the conveyed bill is determined to be a 5,000 yen bill by the discrimination result of the discrimination unit 116, the magnet (not shown) is driven to operate the 5,000 yen bill separating gate 139. Then, it is sent to the 5000-yen banknote stacking unit 127. The 5,000 yen ticket stacking unit 127 sequentially stacks the sent banknotes in the 5,000 yen ticket temporary storage unit 131. Similarly, when it is determined that the ticket is a 1,000-yen ticket, the 1,000-yen ticket dividing gate 138 is activated to send it to the 1,000-yen ticket accumulation unit 126, which temporarily holds the 1,000-yen ticket. The parts are sequentially accumulated in the unit 130. If it is determined that the ticket is a ten thousand yen ticket, the ten thousand yen ticket separation gate 137
And send it to the 10,000-yen ticket stacking unit 125, and then
25 are sequentially accumulated in the 10,000-yen ticket temporary holding unit 129.

Note that, in the discrimination result of the discrimination unit 116, a bill determined to be an unfit banknote or a non-refundable bill (for example, a 500-yen bill) and a collection process from a storage of a denomination described later to a collective storage Does not operate any of the denomination separating gates 137, 138, 139, activates the batch / payment separating gate 136 and sends it to the batch / paying stacking unit 124,
Accumulates the banknotes in batch / payment temporary holding section 128 sequentially.

The withdrawal reject banknote dropping unit 140, when the banknote taken out from the storage of the denomination to be described later in the withdrawal transaction passes through the discrimination unit 116 and is determined to be a non-withdrawal banknote, the later-described reject banknote. It is a transport unit for sending to a storage. The temporary storage shutters 132, 133, 134, 135 are connected to one magnet (not shown), and by driving the magnets, the temporary storages 128, 129,
With the part connected to the side surface of 130, 131 as the center of rotation,
The central part rotates downward. With this operation, the temporary holding unit 128,
The banknotes accumulated in 129, 130, 131 are dropped and stored in each storage of the lower unit 112.

In the deposit transaction, after the deposit count, when the banknotes are accumulated in the temporary holding units 128, 129, 130, 131 and the teller performs the cancel operation, the intermediate unit 111 is unlocked and the intermediate unit 111 is pulled out forward. Thus, the banknotes accumulated in the temporary holding units 128, 129, 130, 131 can be taken out. Further, by using the inspection key, it is possible for the staff member to take out the banknotes remaining in each part of the intermediate unit by the intention of the staff, so that the banknotes can be taken out even when a jam occurs.

The lower unit 112 includes a batch / payment storage 143, storages 144,145,146 for each type of money, and a separating / separating mechanism 147,14 from the storage.
8, 149, 150, a reject banknote storage 142, and a traveling path 151 for conveying the banknotes taken out one by one from the storage.

The 5000-yen ticket storage 146 has a function of receiving and accumulating the banknotes from the 5000-yen ticket temporary holding unit 131 and a separating mechanism 150 to
It is a storage room for 5,000 yen bills that has the function of feeding out bills one by one.

Similarly, 145 is a storage of 1,000 yen ticket, 149 is a separation mechanism of 1,000 yen ticket, 144 is a storage of 10,000 yen ticket, 148 is a separation mechanism of 10,000 yen ticket, and 143 is a lump sum / receipt return. Storage for possible tickets, 1
Numeral 47 denotes a separation mechanism for collectively stored tickets.

The reject banknote storage 142 is the discrimination unit 1 of the banknotes fed out from the storages 144, 145, 146 for each type of money in the withdrawal transaction.
This storage unit stores banknotes that have been detected as skewing or two or more overlaps (double running) based on the 16 discrimination results and have been determined to be dispensable.

Runway 151 is a lump sum / deposit storage 143 and denomination-based storage 14
The banknotes fed out from 4,145,146 are conveyed to the intermediate unit 111.
It is a conveyance path for feeding to the traveling path 141 of.

The full / payment storage 143 and the denomination-based storages 144, 145, and 146 each have a full bill detector 15 as an optical sensor.
4a, 154b, 154c, 154d and near full detector 155a, 155b, 155c,
155d, near-end detectors 156a, 156b, 156c, 156d, and end detectors 157a, 157b, 157c, 157d are attached and serve as means for managing the amount of bills in the storage. In addition, the reject bill storage 142 has a full bill detector 1
53 is installed, and optically rejects bill storage
142 full banknotes are detected.

A door (not shown) is provided on the front surface of the lower unit 112, and by using an inspection key, the storage rack (not shown) can be pulled out forward by opening the door.

By pulling out the storage racks, the above storages are arranged so as to be removed.

A common lock is attached to each of the storages, and a door can be opened with a key to perform bill loading and withdrawal operations. In the upper unit 110 and the intermediate unit 112, independent motors (not shown) are mounted as power sources for separating, stacking, and transporting banknotes, and a power transmission mechanism is arranged.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) By the way, usually, a cash depositing / dispensing apparatus is capable of depositing / dispensing a plurality of denominations.

For example, a 10,000 yen ticket, a 5,000 yen ticket, and a 1,000 yen ticket are mainly used for deposit transactions, and a 10,000 yen ticket and a 1,000 yen ticket are mainly used for withdrawal transactions. Then, if it has a so-called circulation function, the deposited 10,000-yen and 1,000-yen tickets are again stored in the denomination-based storage and used for withdrawal. At this time, if there are many withdrawal transactions and few withdrawal transactions, or if there are many withdrawal transactions and few withdrawal transactions, the transaction content may be biased and the banknotes in the denomination-based storage may become excessive or deficient.

The prior art device described above detects such excess or deficiency and replenishes or collects bills.

Bias in transaction content occurs depending on the time of day even within one day. Therefore, replenishment and collection are required alternately. The replenishment / recovery operation is performed by a staff member artificially by performing a certain operation, or the control unit stored in the batch storage box or the money type storage box manages the amount of cash and is automatically executed. .

However, during such replenishment and collection operations, the device is not capable of dealing cash. Therefore, the operation of the entire apparatus is suspended, or transactions dealing with cash such as withdrawal, deposit, and transfer are suspended. In this case, the handling display unit of the customer operation unit in which the keys operated by the customer, the display and the like are arranged is suspended, or items such as deposit, withdrawal and transfer are deleted from the handling subject display.

The customer sees such a customer operation unit and recognizes that the device is out of order, and closes the transaction, or calls an employee by an intercom or a telephone provided near the device to seek a response. Such handling significantly impairs the convenience to the customer, and also hinders labor saving by unmanned operation, which is one of the purposes of the device.

Note that the replenishment and collection operations may be performed while the device is on standby or while a transaction in which the customer does not handle cash is being executed.

However, this cannot be achieved under any conditions. In particular, when transactions dealing with cash are performed consecutively, the opportunity for replenishment and collection operations is missed. Moreover, at that point, if the fact that there is no cash in the lump-sum storage or that there is no collection space is found out, the staff member's response will also be delayed. Therefore, when transactions are concentrated, the nuisance to customers is immeasurable.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and does not interrupt the device when the cash stored in the denomination-based storage has an excess or deficiency, and prevents the convenience of the customer from decreasing. It is intended to provide a cash deposit / withdrawal device.

(Means for Solving the Problem) The cash depositing / dispensing device of the present invention is provided in the device main body, and is provided in the device main body together with the collective storage which stores the plurality of denominations of cash in a stacked state. A cash distribution means for distributing and replenishing cash to the denomination-based storage, and a storage management memory for storing the denomination and the storage order of the number of cash stored in the batch storage as the denomination-based storage status information, Prediction calculation of the processing time required for the cash distributing means to sequentially take out the amount of cash requested for distribution and replenishment from the collective storage and distribute and replenish it to the denomination-based storage based on the denomination-based storage state information However, the present invention is characterized in that the apparatus is provided with a downtime forecasting means for making the transaction downtime of the device and a display section for displaying the type of downtime transaction and the downtime to the customer.

(Operation) In the above-mentioned device, the storage state information is stored in the storage management memory. The denomination-based storage state information is data serving as a basis for calculating a downtime required for distributing and replenishing the denomination-based storage with the amount of cash requested for distribution and replenishment.

Usually, cash of two or more denominations is randomly stacked in the collective storage. Then, in the case of distribution and replenishment, the cash accumulated on the top is sequentially taken out and sent to the transport path. Therefore, the cash of a specific denomination is not always stacked at the top, and the order in which the cash is stacked in the collective storage is stored as denomination-based storage status information. This allows
For example, it is possible to calculate the time required to take out 100 thousand yen tickets.

On the other hand, in the case of collection, cash of the same denomination is collected all at once from the denomination-based storage to the batch storage. This processing time can be calculated simply by considering the number of collected sheets and the transport speed.
The pause time prediction means performs the prediction calculation by reading such processing time from a memory or the like.

As described above, the pause time for distribution supplementation or collection is displayed on the display unit. The display allows the customer to know how many seconds or minutes after which the currently dormant transaction will be available, which leads to improvement of customer service.

(Examples) Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to examples of the drawings.

 FIG. 1 is a sectional view of the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus of the present invention.

This device consists of a customer service opening 3, a discrimination section 4, and a deposit / withdrawal unit 1.
8, a mechanism such as a batch storage 11, denomination storages 8, 9, and 10, a reject cassette 7, and the like. Further, the collective storage 11 is integrated with a storage management memory 99 for storing the number of denominations of cash stored in the collective storage 11 and the storage status information of each denomination.

Then, the counting management unit 80, which is separately built in the device body 50,
The main operation of the device is controlled by a, cash collecting means 80b, cash distributing means 80c and the like.

In addition to this, there is provided a pause time predicting means 200 for estimating a pause time required for distribution replenishment, collection, etc. by using the money type storage state information stored in the storage management memory 99. Further, a display unit 300 for displaying information to the customer and operated by the customer is provided for the customer to perform various transactions by using this device.

FIG. 3 shows the contents of the prediction calculation data and an operation explanatory diagram of the pause time prediction means.

Banknotes 11a are stacked inside the collective storage 11, for example, these banknotes are, in order from the top, 100 thousand yen tickets, 80 million yen tickets, 150 thousand yen tickets, 100 million yen tickets. It is assumed that they are stacked in a state. In this case, the bulk storage
From FIG. 11, when the bills are distributed and replenished in the denomination-based storage (not shown), the bills are sequentially taken out from the uppermost bill as shown by an arrow and sent to the transport path.

Therefore, for example, when it is necessary to replenish 150 million-yen tickets, first, the topmost 1000-yen ticket is sent out to the transport path, and then the 10,000-yen sheets stacked below it are sent out while counting. If there is a shortage, the 5,000 yen ticket stacked below it will be sent out, and then the 10,000 yen ticket stacked below it will be sent out. Therefore, the downtime required for restocking cannot simply be calculated by the amount of cash required to be distributed.

Therefore, as shown in FIG. 3A, the stacked state of the banknotes stored in the batch storage 11 is stored as it is as the calculation data.

In the figure, (a) shows the data contents in the range of addresses m to m + 2n. At m + 1 and m + 2,
For example, information about the denomination and the number of cash stored in the uppermost stage of the collective storage 11 is stored. This is information having a content of, for example, 100 thousand yen tickets. m + 3 and m +
At the fourth address, for example, denominations of 10,000-yen bills and information on the number of coins stacked underneath are stored.

Below, in order, the cash denomination and the number of pieces of cash accumulated up to m + 2n are written.

In addition, such information is, when the banknotes stored in the batch storage 11 are taken out in order from the top, in order to take out the required number of banknotes of a specific denomination, the number of banknotes is substantially reduced. Anything can be used as long as it can be calculated whether it should be taken out. Therefore, it is not always necessary to store all the information of the banknotes stored in the collective storage 11 as the prediction calculation data. That is, for example, the information for 1000 sheets from the top can be used.

Further, in the above description, the banknotes in the uppermost row stored in the batch storage box 11 are, in order, m + 1 address, m + 3 address, m + 5 address, m.
Although it has been explained that the denomination and the number of pieces of information are stored like +7 address, as a general memory handling method for storing data while incrementing the address,
The more recently stacked banknotes, the denomination number information is stored in the address having the larger address.

The area for storing the prediction calculation data is a fixed finite area. Here, the addresses are from m + 1 to m + 2n. Therefore, if banknotes of different denominations are piled up one after another, all the areas will be filled up eventually. At this time, by clearing the information for the bills that have already been fed out from the collective storage 11 by the replenishment operation, it is possible to write the information regarding the banknotes newly stacked at the bottom, so that an appropriate area is set. If secured, the memory can be used cyclically without any shortage.

Further, when newly stacked or taken out in reverse, there is a problem where the information regarding the banknotes stacked at the top is located.

Therefore, in the data shown in FIG. 3 (a), a pointer indicating the information of the uppermost banknote stored in the batch storage box 11 is prepared at the address m.

A specific configuration of each denomination number information is shown in FIG.

As shown in the figure, the data consists of 8 × 2 bits, the denomination code is the first 2 bits, and the number data is the latter 14 bits.
Composed of bits. Therefore, the data shown in FIG. 9A is stored in a 2-stage configuration with 8 bits each, as shown in FIG. At the address m, the content of the pointer is, for example, m + 1.

When the uppermost banknotes are taken out from the collective storage 11 by distribution replenishment or the like, and, for example, the data at addresses m + 1 and m + 2 are read and cleared, this pointer is located below the pointer and is currently at the uppermost stage. Located at m + 3 and m
The process moves to the information regarding the bill indicated by the address +4, and the data indicating the address m + 3 is stored in the address m. On the contrary, when the banknotes are collected in the collective storage 11 and new banknotes are stacked under the banknotes, the pointer is not updated, and the denomination / number information is stored in the address having a large address.

When there is a distribution replenishment request, the pause time prediction means 200 shown in FIG. 3 confirms the denomination and the number of coins, reads out the denomination number information in order from the position of the pointer, and distributes the requested amount of cash. Calculate the total number of banknotes taken out for replenishment. The pause time includes the preparation time for taking out bills, the transportation time, and the post-processing time.

When such prediction calculation is completed, the result is displayed on the display unit 300 shown in FIG.

In the case of the embodiment shown in FIGS. 1 and 3, the predictive calculation data is stored in the storage management memory 99 provided in the collective storage 11.
However, it may be stored in the storage management memory provided on the main body side.

Further, in addition to this, the storage management memory 99 stores and manages information such as the total amount of cash stored in the storage and the number of cash types, which will be described later in detail. .

<Structure of Display Unit> FIG. 4 shows a block diagram of an embodiment of the display unit shown in FIG.

The display unit includes a display or the like used when a customer operates the automatic teller machine.

That is, as shown in FIG. 4, the cash deposit / withdrawal device control unit 80
The display unit 300 connected to the CRT controller 301, the operation display interface circuit 302, the display 303, the touch sensor controller 304, the touch sensor 305, in-use /
It includes a pause display section 306, a handling subject display section 307, a call staff button 308, and the like.

The CRT controller 301 is a control circuit for displaying various display information input from the cash deposit / withdrawal device controller 80 on the display 303. Operation display interface circuit
In 302, the control signal of the cash deposit / withdrawal device controller 80 is output to the touch sensor controller 304 or the like, or the data received from the touch sensor controller 304 is output to the cash deposit / withdrawal device controller 80 as data control. It is a circuit to perform.

The touch sensor controller 304 includes a touch sensor 30 including transparent electrodes arranged on the display surface of the display 303.
It is a circuit that controls 5. That is, the customer directly presses the keyboard displayed on the display 303,
A specific portion of the touch sensor 305 is pressed, the transparent electrode of the touch sensor 305 is turned on / off, and the customer's intention is the cash deposit / withdrawal device control unit.
Transmitted to 80.

The handling / pause display unit 306 includes a lamp arranged near the display 303 and a display panel. For example, the device can be used when the lamp on the display panel is lit, such as when handling. Then, when the lamp is off, the customer is informed that the device cannot be used.

The handling subject display unit 307 is a device for displaying a transaction subject that the cash depositing / withdrawing device can currently handle by turning on a lamp or the like, similarly to the display unit 306. Classes handled include cash withdrawal, deposit, transfer, transfer, passbook entry, and balance inquiry. The clerk call button 308 is used by the customer to notify the clerk when the device is operated unattended,
This button is provided to perform some kind of treatment.

5A and 5B, the display 303 is shown.
The two initial screens displayed on the screen are shown.

The first initial screen shown in FIG. 7A is a display screen when a certain transaction function of the apparatus is suspended for the time required for the above-mentioned distribution supplement. The second initial screen of FIG. 7B shows a screen displayed after the completion of the distribution supplement operation and the collection operation.

The keyboard display in FIG. 5 (a) is a display for designating the transaction requested by the customer, and the transaction is started when the customer presses any one of the keys. This figure is a guidance display for prompting the customer to press the key.

Further, in the same figure, there is shown a guidance display "Please wait for XX minutes and XX seconds to prepare for the blinking transaction." At this time, if the distribution replenishment or collection operation has started, the withdrawal key, the deposit key,
The three keys of the transfer key are displayed blinking. Then, in the portions of ◯ minutes and XX seconds, the pause time previously calculated by the pause time predicting means 200 is displayed. And
The time is subtracted with the lapse of time, and the waiting time is sequentially displayed to the customer. When this waiting time is up, the key that had been blinking will stop blinking, the guide display will disappear, and the second key shown in FIG. 5 (b) will disappear.
Switch to the initial screen of.

 The waiting time is subtracted as follows.

First, pause time prediction means 200 (microprocessor)
The output of an interval timer (not shown) is connected to the interrupt terminal of. As a result, the interval timer interrupts the pause time predicting means 200 at regular intervals. The pause time predicting means 200 interrupts the program being executed when an interrupt occurs and executes the waiting time display program.

In this program, assuming that the interrupt period is t seconds and the pause time for distribution replenishment is T seconds, the initial value N
Set (= T / n) in the register and display the value. After that, each time the waiting time display program is executed, the value of the register is incremented by "1".

An animation or the like suggesting the operation of the device is displayed in the frame of the figure.

<Main Operation of Device of the Present Invention> FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the main operation of the device of the present invention.

The details of the prediction calculation operation of the device of the present invention will be described using this flowchart.

First, when there is a request for distribution replenishment or collection, the above-mentioned downtime prediction means 200 is as described above.
Estimate the time required for those operations.

It should be noted that when a request for collection is made, the above-described prediction calculation data is not required.

In the case of collection, banknotes of the same denomination are collected from the respective denomination-based storages toward the collective storage 11. The time required for the operation in this case may simply be obtained by adding the transportation time of the bills calculated from the collected number of sheets, the operation preparation time and the post-processing time.

When the prediction calculation is completed, the length of the prediction time is judged (step S1). If the estimated time is equal to or longer than the predetermined time, the deposit, payment, and transfer displays are turned off from the handling subject display (step S2). That is, when the distribution replenishment time is a customer's normal allowable waiting time, for example, about several minutes or more, even if the waiting time is displayed on the display, the customer may not wait. Therefore, in such a case, the handling is stopped as usual.

On the other hand, if the time required for the suspension is within a few minutes, for example, the timekeeping is started while the device is operating (step S3).

Then, the first initial screen shown in FIG. 5 (a) is displayed (step S4). In this case, the waiting time is displayed on the display of FIG. 5 (a) as described above. Then, in step S5, it is determined whether or not the time counting is completed (step S5). Completion of the timekeeping means that the distribution and collection processing has been completed, and then it is determined whether or not there is a display that was previously turned off in the handling subject display (step S6). If there is such a display, the payment, payment, and transfer displays during the handling subject display are turned on (step S7).

If there is no display turned off in the previous step S2, the process proceeds from the determination step S6 to the determination step S8.

In addition, in step S1, if it is determined that the time required for distribution supplementation and collection is extremely short,
The process directly goes to step S8 without performing the processing from step S3 to step S7.

That is, when the time required for distribution and supplementation is several tens of seconds, even if the customer is operating the apparatus, the distribution and supplementation can be performed without the customer being aware of it. Therefore, in such a case, the second initial screen display shown in step S8 is immediately performed.

Then, it is judged whether or not the transaction is selected (step S9), and the next operation guide screen corresponding to the transaction content is displayed (step S13).

In step S5, the transaction may be selected by the customer before the timing is completed.

In this case, first, in step S10, it is determined whether or not the operation completion report is received, and if it is received, the step
The process moves to S6, and proceeds to step S9 as described above. On the other hand, if the operation completion report has not been received, it is determined in step S11 whether a transaction has been selected.
If no transaction is officially selected, step again
The process returns to S5 and the determination as to whether or not the timing is completed is repeated.

On the other hand, when the customer selects the transaction, it is determined whether the transaction is tradable (step S1).
2). If it can be traded, move to step S13,
The next operation guide screen corresponding to the transaction content is displayed. If the transaction is not possible, the process returns to step S5 and waits for the completion of timing.

Further, in step S13, a predetermined transaction process is executed after the operation guidance screen is displayed (step S1.
Four). When the transaction processing is completed, the procedure returns to step S5.

By performing the above operation, the customer looks at the waiting time displayed on the display of the display unit and waits if the waiting time is acceptable, except when the distribution and collection process is extremely long. Wait for the functional recovery of the device. If the replenishment distribution operation and the collection operation are performed frequently by dividing them into small amounts that do not affect the operation of the apparatus, the waiting time of the customer is reduced, and the number of cases where the entire transaction is stopped is significantly reduced.

Hereinafter, the description of the more specific configuration and operation of each part of the device of the present invention will be continued.

<Cash automatic transaction device> Before describing the detailed configuration and operation of this device, first,
A configuration of an automatic teller machine using a cash dispenser will be described.

 FIG. 7 is an overall view of the automatic teller machine.

FIG. 7 (a) is a front view of this automatic teller machine.
51 includes a cash deposit / withdrawal device 50 and a card reader / writer unit 52.
A passbook entry machine 53 and a customer operation unit 54 are provided.

The cash deposit / withdrawal device 50 is a device that receives bills deposited by a customer or performs processing for paying bills to the customer. The card reader / writer unit 52 is a device that performs processing such as identification of a cash card inserted by a customer, printing of results of deposit transactions, payment transactions, etc. on paper.
The passbook recorder 53 is a device for identifying the passbook inserted by the customer and for printing the deposit transaction, payment transaction result, and the like. The customer operation unit 54 is an operation key operated by the customer to input a deposit amount, a payment amount, a personal identification number, or the like,
This is a device having a display unit for displaying illustrations and characters for input amount of money, operation guidance, and the like.

Further, FIG. 7 (b) is a rear view of the apparatus, in which an internal operation section 55 is attached.

The internal operation unit 55 displays operation keys for inputting items and data corresponding to each transaction, data input by the operation keys, processing results, etc., when a clerk performs processing such as charging, replenishing and collecting of banknotes. Then, it is configured by a display unit or the like for guiding the operation of the staff.

Further, in FIG. 7 (a), the control unit 56 indicated by a broken line is
The automatic teller machine 51 includes a processor and the like provided to control the operation of each device.

Further, the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus 50 shown in FIG. 1 has an automatic cash transaction apparatus 51 shown in FIG. 7 in order to attach / detach the collective storage 11 or the like, or to remove a jam on a conveying path for conveying banknotes.
It can be detached from the main body and independently pulled out. Normal,
The rear panel of the automatic teller machine shown in FIG. 7 is opened to take it out.

<Block Configuration of Apparatus> FIG. 8 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus of the present invention.

This device has a cash deposit / withdrawal device control unit via a host device control unit interface 81 by a control unit 56 (FIG. 7).
It is controlled by a control signal input to 80.

The cash deposit / withdrawal device control unit 80 includes a microcomputer for controlling the operation of the entire cash deposit / withdrawal device and its peripheral circuits.

The cash deposit / withdrawal device control unit 80 is connected to the I / O via the bus line.
An O interface circuit 82, a collective storage interface circuit 90, a read only memory (ROM) 83, and a random access memory (RAM) 84 are connected.

The ROM 83 is a memory that stores an operation program for the cash deposit / withdrawal device controller 80. The RAM 84 is a memory for temporarily storing parameters and the like necessary for the operation of the cash deposit / withdrawal device control unit 80.

The I / O interface circuit 82 includes a motor driver 85,
A magnet driver 86, a switch reading circuit 87, a photo sensor reading circuit 88, and a bill discrimination control unit 89 are connected.

The motor driver 85 is connected to the motor group 91 of each part of the apparatus and the motor group 96 provided in the collective storage 11, and is a circuit for driving and controlling various motors according to each operation mode. The magnet driver 86 is a circuit that is connected to the magnet group 92 of each part of the device and that turns on or off each magnet according to the operation mode.

The switch reading circuit 87 is connected to the switch group 93 of each part of the apparatus and the switch group 97 of the collective storage 11, and whether or not the collective storage 11, the denomination-based storages 8, 9, 10 and the reject cassette 7 are mounted. And a circuit for reading the states of switches and the like for detecting the position of each stage. The photo sensor reading circuit 88 is connected to the photo sensor group 94 of each part of the apparatus and the photo sensor group 98 provided in the batch storage box 11, and the batch storage box 11 or the storage boxes 8, 9 and 10 by denomination, or reject. It is a circuit that reads information from a photosensor group that is provided in the cassette 7 and that monitors the stacking state of banknotes.

The bill discrimination control unit 89 is connected to the bill discrimination sensor group 95. The banknote discrimination sensor group 95 is composed of various sensors provided inside the discrimination unit 4 shown in FIG. 1, and is for authenticity, denomination, damage, front and back, and weight of bills sent to the discrimination unit 4. It is a circuit provided for differentially detecting running and skewing.

The batch storage interface circuit 90 reads the storage contents of the storage management memory 99 attached to the batch storage 11 and transfers the storage contents to the cash deposit / withdrawal device control unit 80 or an instruction of the cash deposit / withdrawal device control unit 80. It is a circuit that receives and updates the contents of the storage management memory 99.

The storage management memory 99 is composed of a semiconductor memory or the like that is backed up by a battery or the like and is directly accessed by the cash deposit / withdrawal device control unit 80. The storage management memory 99 is integrated with a control means such as a microcomputer in addition to the above, and transmits / receives data to / from the cash deposit / withdrawal device control unit 80 via the collective storage interface circuit 90. May be

The memory used for the storage management memory 99 is a semiconductor random access memory with battery backup.
In addition to memory, EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read
It may be a magnetic recording medium such as an only memory) or a magnetic disk or a magnetic tape. The storage management memory 99 stores the number of banknotes stored in the batch storage 11 for each denomination individually.

In addition to this, in order to control various operations of the cash deposit / withdrawal control unit 80, a counting management unit 80a, a cash collection unit 80b, and a cash distribution unit 80c are provided. All of these means, through the I / O interface circuit 82 in a predetermined procedure,
It is composed of a sequence program for controlling the circuit of each part of the device and for executing and controlling the operation described later.

The counting management unit 80a counts the banknotes collected in the batch storage box 11 or distributed from the batch storage box 11, and updates the storage box management memory 99 each time. The cash collecting means 80b controls the operation of taking out and transporting the cash stored in the denomination-based storage, and collecting it in the collective storage 11. The cash distributing means 80c confirms the number of denominations stored in the storage management memory 99 when there is a shortage of banknotes in each denomination-based storage, and within the range, it is necessary for each denomination-based storage. Controls the operation of distributing and replenishing various banknotes.

<Service Port> Hereinafter, the configuration of each part of the apparatus in FIG. 1 will be described step by step.

First, at the upper front portion of the apparatus main body 50 shown in FIG. 1, there is provided a customer service opening 3 through which a customer can insert and withdraw bills.

 FIG. 9 shows a sectional view for explaining the operation of the service port.

As shown in FIG. 9 (a), the service opening 3 is a bill guide.
57 and a bill separating mechanism 59 for separating bills one by one, and as shown in FIGS. 9B and 9C, the bill guide 57 is rotated to rotate about the center thereof. It has a body structure.

The service port 3 is rotationally driven by a motor (not shown), and various sensors are attached to it for confirming the shift to each position.

 The service port 3 having the above-described configuration operates as follows.

First, FIG. 9 (a) illustrates a deposit position waiting for a customer to insert a bill. In this case, the shutter 42
Is opened, and the bill guide 57 is opened upward.

Further, FIG. 9 (b) shows a separating position for separating the inserted banknotes one by one. In this case, the shutter 42
The banknotes that have been inserted all together in the banknote guide 57 are closed,
The bills are separated one by one by the bill separating mechanism 59 and sent out of the customer service port 3 in the direction shown by the arrow in the figure. After that, the deposit process is executed for the bill.

FIG. 9 (c) shows a receiving position in the case where the banknotes are collectively received from the front / back arrangement mechanism 5 to the banknote guide 57 as a step before the banknotes are dispensed to the customer.

In the front / back arrangement mechanism 5, the bills to be withdrawn are stacked with their front and back aligned. This is sent out to the right side of the drawing and stored in the bill guide 57.

FIG. 9D shows a dispensing position for dispensing the banknotes stored in the banknote guide 57 to the customer. in this case,
The shutter 42 is opened, and the bills are sent from the bill guide 57 to the customer.

The setting and selection of each position and the operation of shifting to each position are controlled by the control unit of the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus described later.

<Discrimination Unit and Front / Back Arrangement Mechanism> Referring back to FIG. The discriminating unit 4 is a device for discriminating and detecting the authenticity, damage, front and back, overlapping (overrunning) of two or more sheets, skew, and the like of the fed bills. This device also determines the denomination and the like.

Further, on the left side of the service opening 3, a front / back arrangement mechanism 5 is provided. A switching blade 6 is provided in the front / back arrangement mechanism 5. When the bills judged to be the back side by the discriminating section 4 are fed into the front and back side aligning mechanism 5, the switching blade 6 is driven by a magnet (not shown), and the traveling path is changed each time so that all the bills face the front side. Stacked on.

<Batch Storage> In the left corner of the device main body 50, a batch storage 11 is arranged. The collective storage 11 is provided with a stage 70 on the upper part thereof, and a collective separation mechanism 23 is provided for separating the banknotes placed on the stage 70 one by one and taking them out to the outside during the banknote distribution operation. It is provided. The amount of bills stacked on the stage 70 is determined by the near full detector 38d and the full detector 3d.
7d and the end detector 39d.

Further, below the collective storage 11, a collective stacking unit 30 into which the banknotes are sent during a banknote collection operation, a partition plate 33 that stacks the sent banknotes, and a drive that stacks the banknotes on the partition plate 33. A lever 71 is arranged. The end detector 39d is a detector for detecting that the absolute amount of banknotes stored in the batch storage box 11 has decreased.

Below the partition plate 33, of the banknotes distributed from the batch storage box 11, there is provided a batch reject stacking section 68 into which the banknotes classified as undispensable in the classification section 4 are fed. The amount of bills in the batch reject unit 62 is detected by the full detector 40a.

In this collective storage 11, the stage 70 moves to the lower side of the drive lever 71, the drive lever 71 opens left and right, and the banknotes accumulated on the stage 70 are placed on the stage 70.
Is performed again. Although this operation will be described later with reference to FIG. 17, various position sensors (not shown) detect various positions set during the operation of the stage 70 and the operation of the drive lever 71. It is provided. Further, some drive motors are built in for the operation of the stage 70 and the drive lever 71.

<Deposit-Specific Storage and Deposit / Deposit Unit> Deposit-specific storages 8, 9, and 10 are arranged below the apparatus main body 50.

The money type storage 8 is a storage for storing 1,000-yen tickets.
The money type storage 9 is a storage for storing 10,000 yen tickets. The denomination-type storage 10 is also a storage for storing a ten-yen ticket.

A deposit / withdrawal unit 18 is arranged above these denomination-based storages 8, 9, 10.

The deposit / withdrawal unit 18 includes a 1,000-yen ticket temporary holding section 24, a 10,000-yen ticket temporary holding section 25, 26, a 1,000-yen ticket accumulation section 27, a 10,000-yen ticket accumulation section 28, 29, and a 1,000-yen ticket separation mechanism. 20 and 10,000 yen ticket separation mechanism 21, 22
Are provided. Also, besides this, the travel path 49
Along with, denomination separating gates 32, 31, 57 are provided.

The denomination separating gates 32, 31, 57 are driven by a magnet or the like (not shown).

After the bill is discriminated by the discriminating unit 4, when the bill is conveyed to the traveling path 49, the denomination separating gates 32, 31, 57 are operated, and for example, in the case of a 1,000-yen bill, it is sent to the 1,000-yen bill accumulating unit 27. Be done. The 1,000-yen ticket accumulation unit 27 accumulates the 1,000-yen ticket in the 1,000-yen ticket temporary holding unit 24. On the other hand, the 1,000 yen ticket taken out from the deposit box 8 is
The sheets are separated one by one by the 1,000 yen ticket separation mechanism 20
Sent to 49.

 The 10,000-yen ticket also has the same structure.

In addition, the 1,000 yen ticket temporary holding section 24 and the 10,000 yen ticket temporary holding section 25,2
The banknotes accumulated in 6 are configured such that the shutters 34, 35, and 36 are simultaneously pulled out by being driven by a motor (not shown), so that the banknotes fall into the denomination-type storages 8, 9, and 10.

There are full detectors 37a, 37 in the gold type storage boxes 8, 9 and 10, respectively.
b, 37c, near full detector 38a, 38b, 38c, end detector
39a, 39b, 39c are provided, and the amount of bills in each storage is managed.

<Reject Cassette and Others> Further, between the deposit / withdrawal unit 18 and the collective storage 11, collective separation gates 16 and 15 are arranged. Transport path 60
The banknotes that have been conveyed to the batch cutting gate 15 are stored in the batch storage box 11 when they are stored in the batch cutting gate 15.
It is guided to the collective collecting unit 30 side by the operation of 15. Also,
The banknotes sent to the coin-type storage boxes 8, 9, 10 are sent to the traveling path 49 of the deposit / withdrawal unit 18 described above by the collective dividing gate 16.

In addition, the rejected banknotes will be collected at the batch separation gate 69.
Collective reject unit 62 provided in the collective storage 11 by
Alternatively, it is sent to the reject cassette 7 provided in the left corner of the apparatus main body 50.

The batch reject unit 62 provided in the batch storage box 11 is configured such that the bills fed from the batch separating mechanism 23 of the batch storage box 11 are
The discriminating unit 4 is provided to store the corresponding bill when it is determined to be overrun or skew. The reject cassette 7 is provided to store banknotes that are determined to be unable to be dispensed or collected due to various reasons.

Inside the reject cassette 7, stacking units 66 and 64 and full detectors 40b and 40c are also provided. Rejection part 67
Accommodates forgotten bills, and the reject unit 65 accommodates other rejected bills. Further, a door 41 is provided on the back surface of the apparatus body 50, and by opening the door 41, the collective storage 11 is pulled out to the outside. When the collective storage box 11 is pulled out to the outside, the denomination-based storage boxes 8, 9, 10 can be further pulled out.

The reject cassette 7 is arranged so that it can be removed separately without opening the door 41.

A common lock is attached to each of the collective storage 11 and the denomination-based storages 8, 9 and 10, and the door of each storage (not shown) is opened by using the inspection key to perform bill loading and withdrawal operations. be able to.

A large number of motors and the like are mounted as power sources for separating and stacking and transporting banknotes, and a power transmission mechanism is arranged in each part of the apparatus shown in FIG.

The operation of the above apparatus will be described in order based on the procedures of deposit transaction, withdrawal transaction, supplemental loading process, and recovery process.

<Payment Transaction> FIG. 10 is a cross-sectional view of the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus of the present invention at the time of a deposit transaction.

First, the customer presses a deposit / withdrawal key (not shown),
When the cash card is inserted into the card reader / writer section 52 shown in FIG. 7 or the passbook is inserted into the passbook entry machine 53 shown in FIG. 7, communication is performed between the automatic teller machine 51 and the center. . When the identity is confirmed as a result of this communication, the control unit 56 of the automatic teller machine 51 shown in FIG. 7 sends a command to start the deposit process to the cash deposit / withdrawal device 50.

In FIG. 10, when the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus main body 50 receives a depositing processing start command, it switches its internal state to the depositing mode and waits for the customer to set banknotes. In this case, the deposit position of FIG. 9 (a) described above is selected as the service port 3. When it is detected that the customer has set the bill, the shutter 42 of the customer service opening 3 is closed.

The control unit 56 shown in FIG. 7 periodically transmits a sense command to the cash deposit / withdrawal device 50. The cash depositing / dispensing device 50 adds the information "a bill is set in the service port" to the sense command, and returns a response message (response).

Next, the control unit 56 transmits a deposit count command to the cash deposit / withdrawal device 50, and instructs the cash deposit / withdrawal device 50 to count the banknotes set in the customer service slot 3. Here, the service opening 3 takes the separating position shown in FIG. 9 (b), and the banknote separating mechanism 59 of the service opening shown in FIG. 9 (b) separates the banknotes one by one into the inside of the apparatus. Take in. This bill is sent to the discriminating section 4 through the routes indicated by arrows. The discriminating unit 4 sequentially performs the authenticity discrimination, the damage determination and the traveling state detection of the conveyed banknotes, and sends the bills backward. Those discriminated by the discriminating unit 4 as fake bills or abnormal conveyance bills are traced along the routes indicated by the arrows and are conveyed to the front and back arrangement mechanism 5 and accumulated one by one. Then, the customer service opening 3 is set at the receiving position shown in FIG. 9C, and the banknotes accumulated in the front and back arrangement mechanism 5 are sent to the customer service opening 3.

In this way, the deposited reject banknote is returned to the customer via the dispensing position shown in FIG. 9 (d).

On the other hand, the bill discriminated by the discriminating unit 4 as a genuine bill or an unfit bill (non-circulation target bill) is operated to the transfer path 60 as indicated by an arrow by operating the switching gate 43. here,
The genuine 1,000 yen note is conveyed toward the traveling path 49 of the deposit / withdrawal unit 18 as shown by the arrow, and is operated to operate the 1,000 yen ticket separation gate 57 to be sent to the 1000 yen note accumulation unit 27. In this way, the 1,000 yen ticket is accumulated in the 1,000 yen ticket temporary holding unit 24.

Similarly, genuine 10,000-yen notes are accumulated in the 10,000-yen temporary holding section 25 through the 10,000-yen ticket accumulation section 28 by the operation of the 10,000-yen ticket dividing gate 31. Also, the 5,000 yen ticket and the unfit note are sent to the 10,000 yen ticket accumulation unit 29 by operating the 10,000 yen ticket dividing gate 32, and accumulated in the 10,000 yen ticket temporary holding unit 26.

By the above operation, when the deposit counting process of the bills set by the customer in the service opening 3 is completed, the cash depositing / dispensing device 50
A response indicating the end of the deposit count is returned to the control unit 56 shown in FIG. To this response, the data displayed by dividing the number of counted bills for each denomination into return bills and non-refundable bills is added.

Upon receiving this data, the control unit 56 calculates the amount of money by denomination and the total amount of money, and displays it on the display of the customer operation unit 54 shown in FIG. Further, this data is counted and stored as the number of deposits.

When the customer confirms the amount of money displayed on the display of the customer operation unit 54 shown in FIG. 7 and presses the confirmation button of the customer operation unit 54, the cash deposit / withdrawal device 50 receives the command, Deposited bills that have been accumulated in the 1,000-yen ticket temporary holding section 24 and the 10,000-yen ticket temporary holding section 25 of the denomination-based storage boxes 8 and 9 are stored by denomination by pulling out the shutters 34 and 35 of the temporary holding section at the same time. Stored in storage boxes 8 and 9.

Next, the 5,000-yen tickets and the unfit notes accumulated in the 10,000-yen ticket temporary holding section 26 of the denomination-based storage 10 are separated one by one by the 10,000-yen ticket separating mechanism 22, and are separated from the traveling path 49 in the arrow direction. Transport and discriminate section 4
Send to. Then, by operating the switching gates 43 and 63,
Deposit / withdrawal reject stacking unit under the reject cassette 7
It is sent to 64 and accumulated in the deposit / withdrawal reject unit 65.

 This completes the deposit transaction processing.

<Payment Transaction> FIG. 11 is a cross-sectional view of the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus of the present invention at the time of a payment transaction.

When the customer presses the withdrawal transaction key of the customer operation unit 54 shown in FIG. 7, the cash card is inserted into the card reader / writer unit 52, and the personal identification number is input, the control unit 56
Sends a command for starting the withdrawal process to the cash deposit / withdrawal device 50.

When the cash deposit / withdrawal device 50 receives the command to start the dispensing process, it switches the internal state to the dispensing mode and waits for an instruction of the denomination and the number of bills to be discharged.

For example, if the customer inputs the amount of m-million-yen tickets and n-thousand-yen tickets, the end detectors 39a, 39b, and 39c of the deposit boxes 8, 9, and 10 respectively detect the end. It is determined whether it has not been performed. When the end detection is made in any one of the money type storage boxes, the information indicating that the withdrawal is impossible is added to the command and the response is returned. If you have not detected the end, follow the instructions for withdrawal counting, for example,
Activate the million-yen ticket separation mechanism 21 to feed out m-yen tickets.
The fed bill passes through the traveling path of arrows ,,
It is sent to the discrimination unit 4. The discriminating section 4 discriminates whether the bill is a designated bill or not, and if it is a designated bill, the bill is sent to the front and back arrangement mechanism 5 along the arrow, by operating the switching gate 43. Since the front and back of the banknotes are judged in the discrimination section 4, the switching blade 6 operates based on the judgment result, and the front and back are arranged one by one and accumulated in the front and back arrangement mechanism 5.

In the discriminating section 4, the bill discriminated from the abnormal transport ticket is operated by the switching gates 43 and 63, follows the route indicated by the arrow, is sent to the accumulation section 64 of the reject cassette 7, and is sent to the deposit / withdrawal reject section 65. Be accumulated.

The above-described operation is repeated until the previously designated m ten thousand-yen bills are taken out from the denomination-based storage 9 storing the ten-thousand-yen bills, discriminated, and accumulated in the front and back arrangement mechanism 5.

When the stacking of the 10,000-yen tickets is completed, next, n 1,000-yen tickets are taken out from the denomination storage 8 storing the 1,000-yen tickets.

As a result of the above operation, when m-million-yen notes and n-thousand-yen notes specified by the customer are accumulated in the front-back arrangement mechanism 5, ninth
The service port 3 is set at the receiving position shown in FIG. 3C, and the dispensed banknotes accumulated in the front and back arrangement mechanism 5 are serviced by the service port 3.
Then, the shutter 42 is opened by switching to the dispensing position shown in FIG. 9 (d), the bill is delivered to the customer, and then the shutter 42 is closed.

When the designated number of withdrawal from the control unit 56 is completed, the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus 50 returns a response of the processing end to the control unit 56. At that time, the data of the released denomination and its number are added. The control unit 56 receives this, counts it as the number of withdrawals, and stores it.

 This is the end of the withdrawal transaction processing.

If the customer forgets to pick up the banknotes at the service port 3, the banknotes that have been forgotten at the service port 3 are re-separated and fed one by one in the direction of the arrow of the discrimination section 4 to activate the switching gates 43 and 69. This time, it is sent to the stacking section 66 of the uncollected banknotes of the reject cassette 7 and stacked in the reject section 67 that stores the banknotes that are uncollected.

<Loading> FIG. 12 is a cross-sectional view showing a dispensing operation of the cash depositing and dispensing apparatus of the present invention, that is, a loading and replenishing operation.

First, the staff member attaches the collective storage 11 to the apparatus main body 50 before starting the work. A predetermined amount of banknotes are collectively set from the original in the collective storage 11. The clerk
After the batch storage 11 is mounted, the loading key of the operation keys of the internal operation unit 55 shown in FIG. 7 is pressed. In response to this input, the control unit 56 sends a command to start the loading operation to the cash deposit / withdrawal device 50.

Upon receipt of the loading operation start command, the cash deposit / withdrawal device 50 switches the internal state to the loading mode. Then, it is confirmed that the end detector 39d of the collective storage 11 has not detected the end. Banknotes to be loaded are stored in advance in batch storage 11
This is to confirm that it is set to. If the end has been detected, the control unit 56
Send a response to. In that case, the loading operation is stopped. When it is confirmed that the end is not detected, the loading operation is started.

At this time, the storage content of the storage management memory 99 provided in the collective storage 11 does not always match the denomination and the number of banknotes actually stored in the collective storage 11.

When the loading operation is started, in FIG. 8, the cash depositing / dispensing device control unit 80, via the I / O interface circuit 82 and the motor driver 85, performs the batch separation shown in the batch storage box 11 in FIG. The drive motor of the mechanism 23 is operated. As a result, the banknotes set in the batch storage 11 are fed out one by one in order from the upper side and sent to the discriminating section 4 along the route indicated by arrows.

The discriminating unit 4 performs denomination discrimination, genuine / counterfeit discrimination, damage determination, and running state check for each of the sequentially fed bills, and the conveyed bills are further forwarded. If the result of the discrimination by the discriminating unit 4 is a genuine one-thousand-yen note (a bill that has no damage or is a small bill that can be used for withdrawal), the bill is routed by arrows, and Follow the path 49 of the deposit / withdrawal unit 18
It is sent to the 1,000-yen ticket accumulation unit 27 via 57. Thus
The 1,000 yen ticket is directly accumulated on the stage 45 of the 1,000 yen ticket storage 8.

Incidentally, in this way, in the loading operation, the shutters 34, 35, 36 of the denomination storing boxes 8, 9, 10 are opened in advance, and the stages 45, 46, 47 are set in a system for receiving the bills to be loaded. ing.

Further, when the discrimination result is a genuine 10,000-yen note, the bill is sent to the 10,000-yen stacking unit 28 or 29 by operating the 10,000-yen ticket separating gate 31 or 32. Then, they are directly integrated on the stages 46 and 47.

The above operation is repeated for each of the money-type storage boxes 8, 9, 10 until the preset appropriate number of loaded sheets is reached.

During this operation, if the number of stacked sheets on any of the stages 45, 46, 47 reaches the hold allowable value, for example, 100, the operation of the batch separation mechanism 23 of the batch storage 11 is interrupted. Then, the stage 45, 46 or 47 that has reached the hold allowance,
The motor is lowered by a thickness equivalent to the hold allowance value by a motor (not shown). When the stage moves down, the batch separation mechanism 23
And the loading operation is repeated.

For example, when a denomination-based storage 9 is loaded with 10,000-yen bills for the first time, a predetermined appropriate number of 10,000-yen tickets are stored in the denomination-based storage 9 until the full detector 37b fully detects it. Loading continues until it is stored.

Similarly, when the 1000-yen bills are stored in the denomination-based storage 8, loading is continued until the appropriate number is reached.

The appropriate number of sheets is set to, for example, an appropriate number of sheets after the banknote is loaded and in a deposit transaction, leaving a space for storing the banknotes to be deposited. This may be set empirically uniformly, or may be arbitrarily set according to the peculiarity of the installation environment of the automatic teller machine or when the transaction date is at the end of the month. The setting may be made, for example, by a staff member inputting and setting from the internal operation unit 55 shown in FIG.

By the way, even if the banknotes have been loaded into the denomination-based storages 8 and 9 up to the predetermined proper number of bills to be loaded, if the denominations still remain in the batch storage 11, the batch separation gate
15, 16 are operated to collect the conveyed bills in the collective stacking unit 30 of the collective storage 11 through the route indicated by the arrow.

This operation is for the banknotes on the stage 70 of the batch storage 11,
,,,,,, while appraising through the route, it continues until there are no banknotes on the stage 70.
When the banknotes are exhausted, the batch separating mechanism 23 and the transport operation of each traveling path are stopped.

If the discriminating unit 4 determines that the bill is an unfit bill or a denomination that does not have a denomination-based storage, for example, a 5,000 yen bill in this embodiment, the bills are collectively divided into gates 15, 16, 69. Is operated to be sent to the collective reject accumulation unit 68 through the route indicated by the arrow. Then, the unfit bills and the like are accumulated in the collective reject unit 62.

When the above series of operations is completed, the stages 45, 46, 47 are lowered all at once, and the banknotes accumulated on these stages are stored in the denomination-based storage boxes 8, 9, 10 and the loading operation is completed. To do. When the operation is completed, the cash depositing / dispensing device 50 returns a device end response to the control unit 56. At this time, the number data of the denominations loaded in the denomination storage units 8, 9, and 10 is transmitted.

Furthermore, the counting management unit 80a counts the number data for each denomination of the banknotes collected in the batch storage box 11 again after loading the expected number of coins in each denomination storage box 8, 9, 10 and further batch storage. The money type storage state information of the storage 11 is stored. Then, the data is stored in the batch storage interface circuit 90 shown in FIG.
It is stored in the storage management memory 99 via. As a result,
The storage management memory 99 has a collective storage at the end of loading.
Accurate number data and storage status information for each denomination stored in 11 are stored.

<Storage Management Memory> FIGS. 14 to 16 show the data format of the storage management memory 99. FIG.

As shown in FIG. 14, for example, it is assumed that the storage management memory 99 can store 4-word data. Here, the data of the number of ten thousand yen tickets is stored in the addresses m + 1 and m + 2. Further, the data of the number of 1,000-yen tickets is stored in the addresses m + 3 and m + 4.

As shown in FIG. 15, each number data is 1 word 8
Since it has a bit configuration, it can be converted into a binary number and up to 2 ¹⁶ −
One, that is, up to 65,535 can be expressed.

FIG. 16 shows an example of data actually stored. That is, the data of the number of ten thousand yen tickets is "010001" at the address m + 1.
The numerical value of "11011100" is stored in 01 "and the address m + 2. That is, it displays 1,500 sheets in decimal.

On the other hand, the data for the number of 1,000-yen tickets is "10" at address m + 3.
The value “11110100” is stored in the address 000001 ”and the address m + 4. This indicates that the number is 500 in decimal.

That is, after the end of the loading operation, if the data stored in the storage management memory 99 has the content shown in FIG. 16, the storage cannot be distributed to the storages 8, 9 and 10 for each denomination, and the data is stored again. The total number of banknotes collected in the collective storage 11 is 1,500,000 yen
It shows that 500 tickets and 1,000 yen tickets were sold.

<Operation of Collective Storage> During the above loading operation, the collective storage 11 operates as follows.

 FIG. 17 is an operation explanatory view of the collective storage 11.

Collective storage 11 to storage 8, 9 and 10 for each denomination (Fig. 12)
At the start of the operation of loading banknotes into the banknote, as shown in FIG. 17A, the banknotes on the stage 70 are taken out and delivered by the batch separating mechanism 23.

On the other hand, the banknotes that are collected without being stored in the denomination-based storages 8, 9, 10 are sent to the collective stacking unit 30 and stacked on the partition plate 33. Here, when the banknotes reach the stacking allowable value, for example, 100, the operation of the batch separating mechanism 23 is temporarily stopped.

The drive lever 71 is preset to the position 71 in FIG. 17 (b), and when receiving the instruction that the stacking allowable value is reached, the drive lever 71 rotates to the position 71 in the drawing and the partition plate 33 Clamp the banknotes accumulated on top. Then, a motor (not shown) is driven to lift the drive lever 71 from position 71 to position 71 in the figure.
Next, the batch separating mechanism 23 stopped earlier is operated, and the banknotes are continuously stacked on the partition plate 33 up to the stacking allowable value.

When the stacking allowable value is reached again, the batch separating mechanism 23 is stopped, the drive lever 71 is rotated from the position 71 to the position 71, and the banknotes lifted by the drive lever 71 are stacked on the partition plate 33. Drop it on. Then, the motor (not shown) again lowers the drive lever 71 at the position 71 to move it to the position 71. After that, the drive lever 71 is rotated again to the position 71, and the bill is lifted to the position 71.

Such an operation is repeated until the end detector 39d detects that the banknotes on the stage 70 are exhausted. When the end is detected, the operation of the batch separating mechanism 23 is stopped, and the drive lever 71 lifts the banknote to the position of 71 by a motor (not shown).

On the other hand, the stage 70 is driven by a motor (not shown)
It is rotationally driven from the position of 70 to the position of
Further down to the 70 position. Then, it is rotationally driven to the position 70 and is arranged below the drive lever 71. Then, the drive lever rotates to the position of 71, and the bill clamped and lifted first is placed on the stage 70. Thereafter, the stage 70 is driven by a motor (not shown) and moves up to the position 70 in the figure.

By the above operation, the collected banknotes can be distributed from the collective storage 11 again.

<Update of storage management memory> In the above distribution operation, all banknotes are once sent out from the batch storage box 11, and all the banknotes that cannot be distributed are collected in the batch storage box 11 and the number of denominations is changed. The data was stored as is in the storage management memory. However, even when it is determined that the contents of the storage management memory 99 are abnormal even in cases other than the distribution operation, the cash deposit / withdrawal device control unit
80 (FIG. 8) detects this and automatically updates the contents of the storage management memory 99.

As such a case, for example, when the collective storage 11 is attached to the cash deposit / withdrawal device and the contents of the deposit management memory 99 are doubtful, the power has just been turned on to the cash deposit / withdrawal device, and the deposit management memory is still available. If the content of 99 is unreliable, the sum of the data of the number of denominations in the storage management memory 99 is “0” or the batch is not detected even though the end detector 39d of the batch storage 11 has not detected the end. The number of sheets data that exceeds the number of sheets that can be stored in the storage box 11 is stored in the storage box management memory 99.
In the case where a state such as a parity error is detected in the access address of the storage management memory 99.

In the above-mentioned case, similarly to the distribution operation, the banknotes are sent out from the batch storage box 11 to be conveyed, discriminated, counted for each denomination, and the banknotes are circulated to the batch storage box 11 again for collection. Then, the counted number-of-money number data is stored in the storage management memory 99, and the process ends.

<Replenishment Operation> Since the replenishment operation is the same as the loading operation in the drawing, the replenishment operation will be described again with reference to FIG.

When the clerk presses the replenishment key with the operation key of the internal operation unit 55 (Fig. 7), the control unit 56 (Fig. 7) receives this input and instructs the cash deposit / withdrawal device 50 (Fig. 7). Send the command to start the refill operation. Cash deposit / withdrawal device control unit
80 (FIG. 8) sends a command to start the replenishment operation to the control unit 56.
When receiving from (FIG. 7), the operation mode is set to the supplement mode. The replenishment mode is a forced replenishment mode in which it is instructed in advance to replenish the designated number of coins for the designated denomination, and the remaining amount of bills in any of the denomination storage boxes 8, 9 and 10 during the trading operation. However, there is an automatic replenishment mode in which it is automatically executed when it is detected that the number of sheets has dropped below a predetermined number.

At the start of the replenishing operation, it is confirmed that the end detector 39d of the batch storage 11 has not detected the end, that is, the bill has been set in advance. Furthermore, referring to the data stored in the storage management memory 99, the collective storage
Check whether the bills to be refilled are stored in 11 or not.

In the case of the end detection in the forced replenishment mode, the response with the information indicating that it is not in the operable state is returned to the control unit 56 (FIG. 7). In this case, since the contents of the storage management memory 99 may not be reliable,
Clear all the number of denominations in the storage management memory 99 and stop the processing. Of course, the same processing is performed even in the automatic replenishment mode.

On the other hand, the end is not detected, and the storage management memory 99
When it is determined that the replenishment can be executed within the range of the number of coins stored in (4), the replenishment operation is started. In this case, in FIG. 12, the batch separating mechanism 23 on the upper part of the collective storage 11 is operated to take out the banknotes set in the collective storage 11 one by one from the upper side. This banknote is
It is sent to the discriminating section 4 through the route indicated by arrows.

The discriminating unit 4 sequentially performs a denomination determination, a true / false determination, a fitness determination, and a running state check on the fed bills. For example, when the replenishment target bill is one denomination of any of the 10,000-yen bill and the 1,000-yen bill, the bill determined to be a non-genuine bill of the replenishment target bill as a result of the discrimination by the discrimination unit 4 is:
, And the batch dividing gates 15 and 16 are operated to be fed to the batch accumulating unit 30 of the batch storage 11.

Then, as described in the previous loading example, the collective storage 11
Is collected again in the collective storage 11 by the operation inside. In this case, it goes without saying that the counting management unit 80a manages the contents of the storage management memory 99 so that they do not change.

The banknotes whose discrimination result is judged to be reject banknotes are sent to the batch reject stacking unit 68 by operating the batch cutting gates 15, 16 and 69, following the route of. The banknotes are accumulated in the collective reject unit 62.

When the correct bills to be replenished are conveyed, as described in the section of loading, if the bills are 1,000-yen bills, the 1,000-yen note sorting gate 57 is operated to activate the 1,000-yen note accumulation unit 27. It is sent to and is collected directly on the thousand yen ticket stage 45. If it is a 10,000-yen ticket, activate the 10,000-yen ticket dividing gate 31 or 32 to collect the 10,000-yen ticket.
Sent to 28 or 29. Then, they are directly accumulated on the 10,000 yen ticket stage 46 or 47.

The skew and the double-fed bills are returned to the batch storage 11 side by operating the batch cutting gates 15 and 16 in the manner described above.

The above operation is continued until the target number of sheets is replenished, but if the number of stacked sheets in any of the stages 45, 46, 47 reaches the holding allowable value, for example, 100 sheets, the batch separation mechanism 2
The operation of (3) is interrupted, the stage of the cassette that has reached the hold allowable value is lowered by the motor (not shown) by the amount corresponding to the hold allowable value, and the batch separating mechanism 23 is operated again to repeat the replenishing operation.

Even if the replenishment number reaches the target value or before the target value, if all of the replenishment target banknotes in the collective storage 11 are replenished with reference to the number of denominations stored in the storage management memory 99, The separation mechanism 23 stops. Then, when the last bill reaches the stages 45, 46, 47, the carrying operation is stopped. Of the stages 45, 46, 47, the stage that has performed the refill operation moves down, and the banknotes accumulated on the stage are stored in any of the corresponding denomination-based storage boxes 8, 9, 10 and the refill operation ends. .

When the replenishment operation is completed, the number of replenishment sheets is counted, and the contents of the storage management memory 99 are updated based on the result. In this case, the number obtained by subtracting the counting result of all the denominations collected in the collective storage 11 again from the counting result of all the denominations extracted from the collective storage 11 is based on the original data in the storage management memory 99. Is subtracted. Then, in the storage management memory 99, the data regarding the banknote positioned at the uppermost stage before replenishment is
For example, it is stored as denomination and number information at addresses m + 1 and m + 2, but at least this banknote is stored in the denomination storage after replenishment. Therefore, if the bills indicated by m + 1 and m + 2 or other m + 3 and m + 4 etc. are replenished and do not exist in the batch storage box 11, the m + 1 and m + 2 etc. are cleared and the For example, the address information indicating the address m + 5 in which the denomination of the banknote located in the upper row is stored is stored in the address m used by the pointer, and the contents of the storage management memory 99 are updated accordingly.

FIG. 18 is an explanatory diagram showing the contents of the storage management memory before and after the replenishing operation.

For example, it is assumed that the bill storage state in the batch storage 11 and the contents of the storage management memory 99 before the replenishment operation are as shown in FIG. 18 (a). That is, it is assumed that, before the replenishment operation, the m + 1 address and the m + 2 address are 1,500,000-yen tickets and the m + 3 address and the m + 4 address are 500-thousand-yen tickets. Here, when replenishing each of the 1,000-yen and 10,000-yen tickets to the respective coin-type storages by 300, the remaining 1,200-yen and 1,000-yen tickets as shown in FIG. Since 200 sheets can be stacked from below,
For example, the remaining 10,000 yen tickets at m + 10 and m + 11 1200
The sheets are stored as data, and the remaining 200 sheets of 1,000-yen tickets are stored as data at addresses m + 12 and m + 13. Then, address information indicating the address m + 5 is stored in the address m indicating the pointer.

<Collecting Operation> FIG. 13 is a sectional view of the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus of the present invention at the time of a collecting operation.

When the operator pushes the internal operation unit 55 (the operation key in FIG. 7) and the recovery key is pressed, the control unit 56 (FIG. 7).
Receiving this input, sends a command instructing the cash depositing / withdrawing apparatus 50 (FIG. 7) to start the collecting operation.

When the cash deposit / withdrawal device control unit 80 (Fig. 8) receives the command to start the collection operation from the control unit 56 (Fig. 7), it determines whether this is forcible collection or automatic collection. In the case of forced collection, all banknotes are unconditionally collected from the denomination-based storage boxes 8, 9, 10 to the batch storage box 11. Further, the automatic collection is executed when the number of stored bills in any of the denomination-based storage boxes 8, 9, 10 exceeds a predetermined number. In these cases, it is confirmed that the operation mode is set to the collection mode and the near full detector 38d of the batch storage 11 does not detect near full.

Further, the stored contents of the storage management memory 99 are referred to, and it is confirmed that there is still a recoverable space in the collective storage 11 and the number of actually recoverable sheets. Here, when it is detected in the forced collection mode that no space that can be collected in the collective storage 11 is left, a response including state information indicating that operation is disabled is transmitted to the control unit 56 (FIG. 7). Processing is aborted. The same applies to automatic collection.

On the other hand, when it is confirmed that the collectable space remains in the collective storage 11, the collecting operation is started.

First, in the case of collecting bills from the denomination storage 10 storing a ten-yen ticket, the ten-yen ticket separation mechanism 22 is operated, and the bills stored in the ten-yen ticket storage 10 are sequentially read from the top. It feeds out one by one and sends it to the discriminating unit 4 through the route of,. In the discriminating unit 4, regarding the bills sent,
The detection of the authenticity and the running state are sequentially detected and sent backward.

As a result of discrimination by the discrimination section 4, two or more sheets overlap (overrun),
The banknote for which skewing or the like is detected passes through the route of, and activates the batch cutting gates 16 and 15 to be sent to the reject cassette 7 through the route of.

As a result of discrimination, normal banknotes are counted and collectively collected.
Sent to 30. The banknotes sent to the collective stacking unit 30 are sequentially stacked on the partition plate 33. This operation is repeated until the collection target number is reached, or there are no banknotes set in the denomination-based storage box 10 that stores 10,000-yen tickets.

Incidentally, on the way, the number of stacked sheets on the partition plate 33 is a stacking allowable value,
For example, when the number of coins reaches 100, the operation of the 10,000-yen ticket separating mechanism 22 is interrupted, and the operation in the collective storage 11 described above at the time of the replenishing operation is executed. The recovery operation for the other money type storage boxes 9 and 8 is similar.

During the collection operation, the full detector 37
When d is fully detected, the collection operation is interrupted and the information is returned to the control unit 56 (FIG. 7). The control unit 56 displays this on a display unit (not shown).

The clerk, looking at the display indicating that the batch storage box 11 is full, ejects the banknotes stored in the batch storage box 11. In this case, the clerk opens the door 41 on the rear surface of the device main body 50 of the cash depositing / dispensing device, removes the collective storage 11, and uses the inspection key to open the door and take out all the banknotes. afterwards,
The batch storage 11 is set by the reverse operation of the
Is closed and the contents of the storage management memory 99 are all cleared to "0", and then the collection operation is restarted. After that, when the end detectors 39c, 39b, 38a of all the denomination storages 8, 9, 10 detect the end, each separation mechanism 20, 21, 22 stops, and the last bill arrives at the batch storage 11. Then, the transport operation stops.

The cash deposit / withdrawal device that has completed the above processing is controlled by the control unit 56.
In response to (Fig. 7), a response indicating the end of collection is returned, and the number of collected coins for each denomination is added to the response.
The control unit 56 receives this and counts and stores the number of collected sheets.

On the other hand, when the collecting operation is completed, the cash deposit / withdrawal device control unit 80 (FIG. 8) displays the number of collected coins of each coin type collected from each coin storage 8, 9, 10 and the storage management memory 99. The number of stored coins of the denomination stored in is added to update the contents of the storage management memory 99. That is, the denomination type storage state information is updated based on the collected denomination order and the number of denominations.
In this case, since the collected banknotes are stacked in the batch storage box 11 from below, the address m indicating the pointer is not updated, and the banknotes of the banknotes collected after the address m + 50 are not updated. Seed and number information is stored.

The device of the embodiment of the present invention described above has the following operational effects.

(1) The banknotes of two or more denominations used in the device are stored in the collective storage, distributed to the denomination storage at any time after the cash deposit / withdrawal device is attached, and collected as needed. ,
Banknotes can be managed by attaching and detaching only the bulk storage.

(2) The collective storage has a structure in which a collection port and a withdrawal port are separately provided so that banknotes can be circulated, and deposited banknotes are sequentially stored and reused for withdrawal and the like. Therefore, the banknotes can be efficiently used. Further, even with a small and simple mechanism, there is no excess or deficiency of bills.

(3) A storage management memory is integrally provided in the batch storage, and the number of banknotes of this denomination is stored.
Therefore, the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus can smoothly and surely perform its operation at the time of cash distribution or cash collection.

(4) When the shortage of banknotes remaining in the denomination storage is detected, the apparatus refers to the number of denominations stored in the storage management memory and automatically performs a replenishment operation from the lump storage within the range at any time. Can do it. Therefore, the number of stored banknotes in each denomination storage could be properly maintained. In addition, the maintenance and management of the staff becomes easy.

(5) When any one of the denomination-based storages has an excessively large number of storages due to a deposit transaction or the like, the collecting operation can be automatically performed. In this case, the contents of the storage management memory are updated in accordance with the number of collections, so that the operation of the attendant is not required unless the batch storage is full, so that the power saving effect is extremely high.

(6) The same operation can be performed using not only banknotes but also coins and the like.

(7) Also, when operating a plurality of cash deposit / withdrawal devices,
By referring to the storage management memory of the collective storage mounted on each device, the collective storage can be exchanged as necessary, and appropriate accommodation can be achieved. Therefore, the funds can be efficiently managed with a simple operation.

(Effect of the invention) In the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus of the present invention described above, the downtime prediction means uses the cash type storage state information of the cash stored in the batch storage box and the like, and is necessary for the distribution replenishment and the collection. Since the processing time is estimated and calculated to be the transaction suspension time, when the processing time is relatively short, this is displayed to the customer to facilitate the operation of the device. Therefore, the customer can use the unmanned device with peace of mind, which is suitable for holidays and nighttime operation. As a result, the service to the customer is enhanced and the handling becomes more convenient.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a sectional view showing an embodiment of a cash depositing / withdrawing apparatus of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a sectional view of a conventional apparatus, FIG. 3 is an explanatory view of the contents of prediction calculation data and an operation of a pause time predicting means, FIG. 4 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the display unit, FIG. 5 is a front view showing an example of a screen displayed on the display unit, FIG. 6 is a main operation flowchart of the device of the present invention, and FIG. 7 is an automatic cash transaction device. FIG. 8 is a block diagram of the cash deposit / withdrawal device of the present invention,
FIG. 9 is a sectional view for explaining the operation of the customer service port, FIG. 10 is a sectional view of the cash depositing / withdrawing apparatus of the present invention during a depositing transaction, and FIG. 11 is a sectional view of the cash depositing / withdrawing apparatus of the present invention during a dispensing transaction, FIG. 12 is a sectional view of the cash depositing / withdrawing apparatus of the present invention during a loading (replenishing) operation, FIG. 13 is a sectional view of the cash depositing / withdrawing apparatus of the present invention during a collecting operation, and FIGS.
Up to FIG. 16, a data format explanatory diagram of the storage management memory of the device of the present invention, FIG. 17 is a collective storage operation explanatory diagram,
FIG. 18 is an explanatory diagram of the contents of the storage management memory of the device before and after the replenishing operation. 8,9,10 …… Deposit storage, 7 …… Reject cassette,
11 ... Collective storage, 50 ... Device main body, 80a ... Count management unit, 80b ... Cash collecting means, 80c ... Cash distributing means, 89a
...... Discrimination result identification means, 89b ...... Gate control means, 99 ...
… Storage management memory, 200… Pause time prediction means, 300…
... Display.

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] Claims: 1. A batch storage box for storing cash of a plurality of denominations in a stacked state and attached to the apparatus main body, and a cash distribution provided in the apparatus main body for distributing and replenishing the cash to the denomination classification storage box. Means, a storage management memory for storing the storage order of the denomination and the number of cash stored in the batch storage as the storage status information for each denomination, and the distribution supplement based on the storage status information for each denomination. A pause time predicting means for predicting and calculating a processing time required for the cash distributing means to sequentially take out the requested amount of cash from the batch storage box and distribute and replenish it to the cash type storage box, and set it as the transaction suspension time of the apparatus. And a cash deposit / withdrawal device, which is provided with a display unit for displaying the type of suspension transaction and the suspension time to the customer. 2. A cash collecting means provided in the main body of the apparatus for collecting the cash from the denomination-based storage into the batch storage; and the downtime prediction means, wherein the amount of cash requested to be collected is the batch storage. The cash deposit / withdrawal device according to claim 1, wherein a processing time required for the collection is calculated and set as a transaction suspension time of the device.