JP2573751B2 - Passbook page break mechanism and its page break method - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a passbook of a passbook handling apparatus which is installed in a financial institution such as a bank and is used when conducting a transaction involving a passbook entry in a transaction such as depositing and withdrawing by an operation of a customer himself or an operator. The present invention relates to a page break mechanism and a method of automatically paginating a passbook by the passbook break mechanism.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing an example of the configuration of a conventional passbook handling apparatus. In FIG. 5, reference numeral 1 denotes a passbook insertion / ejection port for inserting and discharging a passbook; The passbook transport path 3 extending to the back of the apparatus is a magnetic stripe read / write unit disposed immediately after the passbook insertion / ejection port 1 along the passbook transport path 2 and reads the magnetic stripe of the inserted passbook. In addition to confirming the customer, the transaction contents are written on the magnetic stripe of the passbook for which the bookkeeping process has been completed. Reference numeral 4 denotes a page mark read unit disposed behind the magnetic stripe read / write unit 3, which reads a page mark attached to the inner sheet of the passbook and detects a print position. Reference numeral 5 denotes a printing unit that prints on the page detected by the page mark reading unit 4 or the cover, and 6 denotes a page feed unit that automatically turns the page in accordance with the detection result of the page mark reading unit 4. Are each of these mechanism units 2
A control unit for controlling the driving of the printers 6 through 6, which is connected to a higher-level device (not shown) holding customer information and the like, and performs passbook processing control based on an instruction from the higher-level device.

[0006] Next, a conventional passbook page break mechanism in the above-described page break section 6 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 6 is a schematic structural view of a conventional passbook page breaking mechanism.
Is a passbook. The passbook 8 has a booklet shape in which a cover made of thick paper and a plurality of middle sheets 8a thinner than the cover are folded in half from the center, and the passbook 8 is used to print the last page on which printing is performed. Inserted in the open state. Reference numerals 9 to 11 denote a plurality of pairs of transport rollers arranged at predetermined intervals along the passbook transport path 2 to transport the passbook 8, and are driven by a motor 12 connected by gears (not shown). I have. Reference numeral 13 denotes a page break roller disposed between the transport rollers 9 and 10. The page break roller 13 is made of a high-friction rubber material or the like, and directly contacts the middle paper 8a of the passbook 8 from above. The inner page is turned over by the frictional force between the paper 8a and the page feed roller 13, and the page is turned. Reference numeral 14 denotes a pressure roller disposed at a position opposite to the page feed roller 13. The pressure roller 14 is connected to a solenoid 16 via a link 15, and moves vertically when the solenoid 16 is excited. The passbook 8 conveyed to the page break section 6 is pressed against the page break roller 13 to press the page break roller 13 to perform a page break. Reference numeral 17 denotes a sensor disposed above the page feed roller 13 as detecting means, which detects that the page has been turned by detecting the turned-up inner sheet 8a or the leading end of the cover. Reference numeral 18 denotes a page feed motor for driving the page feed roller 13 to rotate. The page feed roller 13 is rotated or stopped according to a drive instruction from the control unit 7.

[0006] The page break operation of the passbook 8 having the above configuration is performed in a state where the passbook 8 opens the last printed page in accordance with a deposit / withdrawal transaction.
When a customer or an operator inserts the passbook into the passbook insertion / ejection port 1, the passbook 8 is taken into the passbook transport path 2 from the passbook insertion / ejection port 1 and is attached to the cover of the passbook by the magnetic stripe read / write unit 3. The information in the magnetic stripe portion is read. The read magnetic information is sent to the control unit 7, where the read magnetic information is collated with a password input from an operation key or the like by a customer or the like. When the customer is confirmed, the passbook is sent to the page mark reading unit 4. The page mark reading section 4 reads a page mark attached to the opened page,
When the control unit 7 determines that the page is a printable page based on the read information, the passbook 8 is conveyed to the printing unit 5 and
The details of the transaction are printed. If there are no printable lines before all the print contents have been printed,
The passbook 8 is sent to the page break section 6, the page break of the middle sheet is performed, and the page book is again sent to the page mark reading section 4 to determine that the page is printable. Done. This is repeated until all the print contents are printed.

Here, a conventional page break operation performed in the page break section 6 will be described with reference to FIG. When the passbook 8 is sent to the page break section 6 for page break, first, the solenoid 16 is excited and sucked, and the pressure roller 14 is pressed to the page break roller 13 via the link 15 to change the passbook 8. It is pressed against the page roller 13. Next, the control unit 7 drives the page-breaking motor 18 to rotate the page-break roller 13 in the pass-book turning direction, that is, in the counterclockwise direction in the drawing, and inserts the inner paper that is partially in contact with the peripheral surface. 8a, the frictional force generated between
The inner sheet 8a is turned up as shown in FIG. When the middle sheet 8a is turned up by a certain amount, the pressing of the pressure roller 14 is released as shown in FIG. Turn up. When the inner sheet is turned up in this way, the leading end enters between the page break sensors 17, whereby the turning up of the inner sheet is detected. Thereafter, the passbook 8 is conveyed in the reverse direction, that is, in the direction of the printing unit 5, so that the inner sheet 8a is turned.

Also, in the above-described page feed operation, the pressure roller 14 may be used as a transport roller by forming a pair with the page feed roller 13 when the passbook 8 is transported. The pressure needs to be quite strong. For this reason, the inner paper 8a
Is performed, the frictional force generated between a plurality of middle papers or between the middle paper and the cover, which are pressed against each other by the page break roller 13 and the pressure roller 14, is increased, and the two pages are turned. Etc. may occur frequently. Therefore, in order to adjust the pressing force of the pressure roller 14, as shown in FIG. 3C, the release-pressing operation of the pressure roller 14 is repeatedly controlled as a continuous operation at the time of a page break operation, as if the pressure roller 14 were pressed. There is also an example in which the pressing force is made constant to prevent the turning of two sheets.

[0007]

However, according to the above-mentioned prior art, there are the following problems.
FIG. 8 is an explanatory view showing a problem of the conventional example, and FIG.
As shown in (b), if there is a strong friction between the inner sheets or between the inner sheet and the cover, there is a possibility that two more sheets may be turned depending on the pressure contact force of the pressure roller, and conversely, as shown in FIG. When the pressure roller is released after pressing the pressure roller after a certain amount of weakness, the rolled-up inner paper may slide down, and the effect of the paper quality of each passbook is large. There has been a problem that stable page break operation cannot be performed only by adjusting the pressing force. For this reason, a delicate adjustment is required for the timing of releasing the pressure as well as the pressing force of the pressure roller, but this cannot guarantee a stable page break and is not technically satisfactory. .
Therefore, the present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and the page break operation is not unstable due to the paper quality of the passbook, and the passbook is always stable regardless of the paper thickness. The present invention relates to a pass changing method capable of performing a page changing operation, and to a page changing method capable of performing a stable page changing operation by the automatic page changing mechanism.

[0008]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention provides a passbook conveying means for conveying a passbook along a passbook conveying path, and the passbook conveying means which conveys the passbook to a page break position. Roller for turning up the inner paper of a passbook, a passbook pressing means arranged opposite to the paper break roller and capable of pressing and releasing the inner paper, and detecting the turned inner paper Detecting means for detecting
In a passbook breaking mechanism for turning a page by turning up the inner sheet of the passbook by rotation of the page break roller, the passbook pressing means is a first pressing means, and a force weaker than the pressing force of the first pressing means. Thus, a passbook breaking mechanism is provided which includes a second pressing means for constantly pressing the passbook at the page feed position of the passbook transport path against the page feed roller with a weak pressing force.

[0009]

The page break operation according to the above-described structure is performed by first releasing the first pressing means and weakly pressing the second page pressing means only for the passbook conveyed to the page breaking position. Is rotated to perform a page break operation, and whether or not the inner sheet is turned up is detected by the detecting means for a certain period of time. Here, if no turn-up is detected, the rotation of the page feed roller is temporarily stopped, the first pressing means is driven to press the page feed roller, and the page feed roller is rotated again.
Perform a flip-up operation for a certain period of time. Thereafter, the pressing of the first pressing means is released, and the flip-up operation is performed again only by the pressing force of the second pressing means. Then, the page breaking operation of turning the page by pressing the first pressing unit is performed by the second page turning operation.
When turning over cannot be detected only by pressing of the pressing means, the pressing is repeated, and the pressing time of the first pressing means in the repeated page break operation is made longer than the previous pressing time. As a result, the passbook is constantly pressed with a weak but stable pressing force to the page-breaking roller by the second pressing means, so that the passbook is separated from the page-breaking roller even when the first pressing means is released. Since nothing happens, the page is surely changed.

[0010]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a passbook break mechanism, FIG. 2 is a detailed view of a main part of a second pressing means in the passbook break mechanism, and FIG. 3 shows an automatic page break method by the passbook break mechanism shown in FIG. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the operation according to the present embodiment. FIG. 4A shows the flip-up operation by the first pressing means, and FIG. 4B shows the flip-up operation by only the second pressing means. Is shown. First, the passbook pagination mechanism will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2.
11 is a transport roller, 12 is a motor for driving these transport rollers 9 to 11, 13 is a portion between the transport rollers 9 and 10,
That is, it is a page break roller arranged at a page break position, and has a structure driven to rotate via a page break motor 18 according to an instruction from a control unit (not shown). These are almost the same as the conventional structure. is there. Reference numeral 14 denotes a pressure roller disposed opposite to the page break roller 13, and is connected to a solenoid 16 via a link 15. The solenoid 16 is moved up and down by being excited to cause the page break. The passbook 8 is pressed against the page break roller 13 by being pressed against or separated from the roller 13. This is referred to as first pressing means. The pressure roller 14 forms a pair with the page feed roller 13 during the passbook transfer, and also serves as a transfer roller for transferring the passbook 8 by rotation of the page feed roller 13.

Reference numeral 17 denotes a page break sensor, which detects page turning by detecting the leading end of the passbook 8a turned up by the page breaking roller 13. Reference numeral 19 denotes a guide disposed below the passbook transport path 2 along the passbook transport path 2 and spaced apart from immediately below the page feed roller 13 at a predetermined interval. When it is conveyed, it is arranged so as to be located away from the central binding portion 8b side of the passbook 8. The guide 19 has a substantially trapezoidal shape as shown in FIG.
9a and a flange portion 19b which is horizontally extended at the bottom of the trapezoidal portion 19a.
A is urged by a plurality of guide springs 20 from the lower surface side so that a protrudes into the passbook transport path 2. And
The guide spring 20 causes the trapezoidal portion 19a to protrude into the passbook transport path 2 and press the passbook 8 against the page feed roller 13 with a constant pressing force weaker than the pressing force of the first pressing means. This is referred to as second pressing means. Since the second pressing means is configured to move up and down by a weak urging force of the guide spring 20,
When the passbook 8 is conveyed, the passbook 8 uses the passbook conveyance path 2
Has been pushed down.

Further, the second pressing means is arranged at a predetermined interval in the direction of the binding portion 8b of the passbook 8 from immediately below the page break roller 13 because the guide 19 is If it is disposed immediately below, the pressing force of the second pressing means is directly transmitted to the page break roller 13 and becomes strong. Since the passbook 8 is pressed by the page roller 13 and the binding portion 8a side from below by the guide 19, the passbook 8 is bent so as to be curved. This bending causes the passbook 8 to have a spring property. Since a pressing force is applied to the page roller 13, the guide 19
This is because the pressing force on the page feed roller 13 is stable without changing as much as possible.

Reference numerals 21 and 22 denote thin sheet-shaped conveyance guides forming the passbook conveyance path 2, which are arranged to face each other at a predetermined interval so that the passbook 8 can be conveyed. Is made of a plurality of plate members, is formed to be releasable from the center to the left and right at a position corresponding to the page break position of the passbook 8, and is released at the time of a page break operation. On the other hand, the lower conveyance guide 22 located immediately below the release portion is provided with the guide 1 of the second pressing means.
9 is formed in the lower guide 22 around the through hole.
The contact of the guide b restricts the guide 19 from projecting into the passbook transport path 2.

Next, a page break operation performed by the passbook page break mechanism having the above-described structure will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 3 and the operation explanatory diagram of FIG. The symbol S shown below indicates a processing step. First, the passbook 8 inserted into the apparatus by a customer or the like in accordance with the transaction processing is transported to a predetermined position at which a pass change operation of the passbook changing mechanism is performed (S1). At this time, the pressure roller 14 corresponding to the page feed roller 13 serves as a transport roller when the passbook 8 is transported.
Since it is pressed against the page feed roller 13 side, the solenoid 1
6, the pressure roller 14 is released from the page feed roller 13 (S2). Next, the page feed roller 13 is rotated to start the page feed operation (S3). At this time, the passbook 8 is pressed against the page break roller 13 only by the guide spring 20 by the guide 19, that is, only by the second pressing means. This state is shown in FIG. In S3, the sensor 17 detects whether or not the page of the inner sheet 8a is turned by the rotation of the page feed roller 13 by detecting the leading end of the inner sheet (S4). When the sensor 17 detects the inner sheet 8a in S4, it is determined that a page break has been made, and the rotation of the page break roller 13 is stopped (S5), thereby completing the page break operation. On the other hand, if no flip-up is detected in S4, it is determined whether or not this detection time has passed a predetermined time (S6).

When a predetermined time has elapsed without turning-up being detected and a timeout occurs, the rotation of the page feed roller 13 for turning up is stopped (S7). Then, it is determined whether or not the page break operation to be performed next has exceeded the number of retries (S8), and if so, it is determined that the page break operation has failed, and the operation ends abnormally. If it is not over, the solenoid 16 is again excited to operate the first pressing means, and the pressure roller 14 is pressed against the page feed roller 13 as shown in FIG. 4A (S9). Thereafter, the page break roller 13 is rotated again to execute a page break operation (S10). It is detected whether or not the inner sheet is detected by the sensor 17 by the rotation of the page feed roller 13 (S11). Then, within a predetermined period of time (for example, 0.03 to 0.05 seconds) in which the detection is performed, the sensor 17 detects that the inner sheet 8a is turned up (S30).
12) If no inner paper is detected even after a predetermined time has passed,
The rotation of the page feed roller 13 is stopped (S13), and the process returns to S2.

If turning up is detected in step S12, the flow advances to step S5 to stop the rotation of the page feed roller 13 and complete the page feed operation. Then, when returning to S2 without detecting the turning-up as described above, the pressure roller 14 is released again, and the page feed operation after S3 is repeated. At this time, when the flip-up operation is performed by the first pressing means in addition to the second pressing means, the detection time, that is, the time for pressing the first pressing means against the page break roller 13 is set longer than the previous pressing time. At a certain stage, increase and lengthen,
This page break operation is repeated until the number of retries (for example, three times) is over. In the above-described embodiment, the upper side of the transport roller 10 has the same structure as the page feed roller 13 and the lower side of the transport roller 10 has the same structure as the pressure roller 14, so that the direction opposite to the passbook 8, The page can be changed from the back cover side.

[0017]

As described above, according to the present invention, the passbook transport means for transporting a passbook along the passbook transport path and the passbook transported by the passbook transport means to the page change position. A page break roller for turning over the paper, a passbook pressing means disposed opposite to the page break roller and capable of pressing and releasing the page break roller, and a detecting means for detecting the turned-up inner sheet. Then, in the passbook breaking mechanism for turning the page by turning up the inner sheet of the passbook by rotation of the page feed roller, the passbook pressing means is a first pressing means, and the pressing force of the first pressing means is weaker. Second pass means for constantly pressing the passbook at the page break position of the passbook transport path against the page break roller by force is provided to constitute a passbook break mechanism. Then, for the passbook conveyed to the page break position, first, a page breaking operation is performed only by the second pressing means, and the turning-up of the inner paper is detected by the detecting means for a certain period of time. Then, after the first pressing unit is driven to perform a page break operation again for a certain period of time, the page break operation is performed again only by the second pressing unit. The page turning operation of turning up by the first pressing means is repeatedly performed when turning up cannot be detected only by the second pressing means, and the pressing of the first pressing means in the repeated page turning operation. The time was set to be longer than the previous pressing time.

For this reason, the passbook is constantly pressed with a weak but stable pressing force by the second pressing means on the page break roller side, and the page changing operation is performed a plurality of times by changing the pressing time by the first pressing means. As a result, unlike the related art, it is possible to prevent the paper thickness from being greater than the pressing force of the pressing means, thereby preventing two-sheet feeding. Further, in the past, when the pressure roller was released, the inner sheet slipped down because the sheet was not sufficiently turned up. However, according to the present application, even if the pressure roller was released, the inner sheet was kept in the second sheet. Since the pressing means constantly presses the page-break roller, the inner sheet turned up halfway does not separate from the page-break roller, and the page-break processing is reliably performed.
As a result, an effect is obtained in that stable page break processing capable of flexibly responding to each paper quality of the passbook can be performed without fine adjustment of the pressing force of the pressing means.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a passbook page break mechanism of the present embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a detailed view of a main part of a second pressing unit in the passbook breaking mechanism of the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an automatic page break method by the passbook page break mechanism shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing an operation according to the present embodiment;
(A) shows the flip-up operation by the first pressing means,
(B) shows the flip-up operation by the second pressing means.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of a conventional passbook handling device.

FIG. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of a conventional passbook page break mechanism.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing a conventional page break operation.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram showing a conventional problem.

[Explanation of symbols]

 8 Passbook 9-11 Conveyance Roller 13 Page Breaking Roller 14 Pressure Roller 16 Solenoid 17 Page Breaking Sensor 19 Guide 20 Guide Spring

Claims (4)

(57) [Claims] 1. A passbook transport unit for transporting a passbook along a passbook transport path, a page break roller for turning up the inner sheet of the passbook conveyed by the passbook transport path to the page break position, A passbook pressing means which is disposed opposite to the page break roller and which can be pressed against and released from the page break roller, and a detecting means for detecting a turned-up inner sheet, is provided. In a passbook breaking mechanism for turning a page by turning up a middle sheet, the passbook pressing means is used as a first pressing means, and a page breaking position of the passbook transport path is applied with a force weaker than the pressing force of the first pressing means. And a second pressing means for constantly pressing the passbook to the page feed roller side. 2. A passbook transport means for transporting a passbook along the passbook transport path, a page break roller for turning up the inner sheet of the passbook conveyed by the passbook transport path to the page break position, A passbook pressing means which is disposed opposite to the page break roller and which can be pressed against and released from the page break roller, and a detecting means for detecting a turned-up inner sheet, is provided. In the passbook turning method for turning a page by turning up a middle sheet, the passbook pressing means is used as a first pressing means, and the passbook transport path is turned with a force weaker than the pressing force of the first pressing means. A second pressing means for constantly pressing the passbook at the page position against the page break roller is provided, and the passbook conveyed to the page break position is firstly moved to the second position.
When the page break roller is rotated by a weak pressing force of only the pressing unit to perform a page break operation, whether or not the inner sheet has been turned up is detected by the detecting unit for a certain period of time, and when turning up is not detected, After temporarily stopping the rotation of the page break roller, the first pressing means is driven to press the page break roller, and the page break roller is rotated again to perform a turning-up operation for a predetermined time, and then the first pressing is performed. A passbook breaking method, characterized in that the pressing of the means is released and the flip-up operation is performed again only by the pressing force of the second pressing means. 3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the page changing operation of turning the page by pressing the first pressing unit is repeatedly performed when the turning of the page cannot be detected only by the subsequent pressing of the second pressing unit. 3. The passbook breaking method according to claim 2. 4. The pressing time by the first pressing means in the repeated page turning operation of turning up by the first pressing means is longer than the previous pressing time. Passbook page break method.