JP2596383B2 - Intelligent cassette device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an intelligent cassette device, and more particularly, to an ATM (Automated) of a financial terminal.
The present invention relates to an intelligent cassette device provided in a Teller Machine (cash automatic transaction machine), a cash processing machine for a counter, and the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In general, ATMs for financial terminals and cash handling machines for counters are required to have a replenishment / collection function using a batch cassette. The intelligent cassette automatically counts on the machine and automatically recognizes it.

[0003] The intelligent cassette has a more complicated structure than that of the prior art because it performs a complicated operation of moving a bill holding plate (backup plate) while holding bills inside the cassette.

An intelligent cassette device of this type is disclosed in, for example, Japanese Patent Publication No. 63-51316,
As seen in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 101177, etc., there are many steps for exchanging banknotes in a dispensing area and a deposit area.

[0005]

As described above, in the intelligent cassette apparatus, there are many steps for exchanging bills in the dispensing area and the deposit area. For this reason, in the prior art, in addition to performing complicated movements such as the backup plate being retracted, it is necessary to check the number of bills every time the bills in the payout area and the deposit area are exchanged. However, there is a disadvantage that the system is complicated and large, and the productivity of the entire system is poor.

[0006]

An object of the present invention is to provide an intelligent cassette device which solves the disadvantages of the prior art and which has a particularly simple structure and which can reliably and quickly exchange banknotes in a pay-out area and a deposit area. To do so.

[0007]

According to the present invention, there is provided a case body for storing bills having a bill inlet / outlet at one end and the other end,
One and the other case support mechanisms that support the center of the left and right end portions of the case body so as to be freely engaged therewith, and a case rotation drive mechanism that rotates the case body by 180 ° together with the case support mechanism. Have.

The bill inlet and outlet at one end and the other end of the case body are provided in the same shape at a line symmetrical position with respect to the rotation axis of the case body, and the bill inserting means corresponds to one bill inlet and outlet. Is provided, and bill feeding means is provided corresponding to the other bill inlet / outlet.

[0009] Then, a bill holding plate is separately and independently provided in a deposit area on one end side and a dispensing area on the other end side in the case main body. This aims to achieve the above-mentioned object.

[0010]

[Operation] When the withdrawal area 1B becomes empty, the case body 1
Rotate 180 degrees to deposit area 1A and withdrawal area 1B
Replace with That is, power is transmitted by the motor 10 via the case rotation drive mechanisms 4 and 5, and the case main body 1 is rotated by 180 degrees, whereby the exchange of the deposit area 1A and the dispensing area 1B is executed.

Here, immediately before the case body 1 is rotated by 180 degrees, the bill feeding means 11 and the bill feeding means 1 are rotated.
2, and rotational movement is biased in the external means pivot point O _A, centered on O _B, rotates to the position of two-dot chain line. When the deposit area 1A and the dispensing area 1B are exchanged, they are returned to their original positions.

[0012]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS.

The embodiment shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 has a bill main body 1 provided with bill entrances 1a and 1b at one end and the other end, and a case main body 1 having left and right end portions thereof. Case support mechanisms 2 and 3 for supporting the center of the body as a fulcrum and rotatably about the fulcrum, and case rotation drive mechanisms 4 and 5 for rotating the case body 1 every 180 °. I have.

One of the case supporting mechanisms 2 includes a case main body 1.
Square projection 1E provided at the center of one of the side plates
2A for fixing and supporting the case, and a case support shaft 2 extending rightward in FIG. 1 along the rotation axis of the case body 1 at the center of the attachment 2A.
B, a cylindrical rotary shaft 2C that supports the case support shaft 2B, and a coil spring 2D that is provided in the cylindrical rotary shaft 2C and presses the case support shaft 2B described above toward the case body 1. ing. An elongated hole 2E (see FIG. 2) is provided in the cylindrical rotary shaft 2C, and the engaging pin 2F is inserted into the elongated hole 2E with the case support shaft 2B inserted therethrough.
Are equipped with penetrations.

The one case supporting mechanism 3 is also formed exactly the same, and supports the case body 1 in a state where a rectangular projection 1F provided at the center of the other side plate of the case body 1 is fixed. I have.

Therefore, the case main body 1 is supported by the case supporting mechanisms 2 and 3 while being pressed from both ends by the case supporting mechanisms 2 and 3.

The case support mechanisms 2 and 3 are individually supported by the case rotation drive mechanisms 4 and 5, respectively, and are provided with a predetermined rotational force.

That is, one of the case supporting mechanisms 2 has its cylindrical rotary shaft 2C portion coaxially fixedly supported by a driven timing pulley 4A forming a part of the case rotating drive mechanism 4, and
The other case supporting mechanism 3 has its cylindrical rotating shaft 3
The portion C is coaxially fixedly supported by a driven timing pulley 5A of the case rotation drive mechanism 5.

Reference numeral 4B denotes a driving timing pulley of the driven timing pulley 4A, and reference numeral 4C denotes a belt stretched between them. Reference numeral 5B indicates a driving timing pulley of the driven timing pulley 5A, and reference numeral 5C indicates a belt stretched between them. The driving timing pulley 4B, the driven timing pulley 4A, and the belt 4C
Constitutes one case rotation drive mechanism 4, and the other timing drive pulley 5B, driven timing pulley 5A, and belt 5C constitute the other case rotation drive mechanism 5. Further, reference numeral 10A denotes a driving timing pulley 4B,
5B shows a drive shaft that supports and rotates and drives 5B. The drive shaft 10A is driven to rotate by the motor 10.

The bill inlets and outlets 1a and 1b at the one end and the other end of the case body 1 are provided in the same shape at a line symmetrical position with respect to the rotation axis of the case body 1, and one bill inlet and outlet 1a Corresponding banknote retraction means 11 is provided,
The bill feeding means 12 corresponding to the other bill entrance 1b
Is equipped.

The bill receiving plates 6 and 7 are separately and independently provided in the deposit area 1A on one end and the dispensing area 1B on the other end in the case body 1.

On the side of the deposit area 1A, a bill guide means is provided on the wall surface along the face of the bill to be fed. This bill guide means is specifically composed of a guide roller 8 as a bill guide means having a support shaft arranged on the bill feeding means 11 side, and the rotating surface of the guide roller 8 protrudes into the case body 1. It is in a state.

The bill feeding means 11 and the guide roller 8 described above, and the bill feeding means 12 described above are configured so as to temporarily rotate and separate from the case body 1 when the case body 1 rotates. ing. Sign O
_A, O _B represents a respective rotation center.

The bill pressing plates 6 and 7 are externally powered (not shown) in accordance with the operation for storing and dispensing and the amount of the bill 2.
Operation control of up and down movement in FIG. 1 is enabled. That is, when the bills S are stored, a space for the bills S to be fed by the bill feeding means 11 is secured above the bills S.

The above-described guide roller 8 is an idle roller for reducing friction when the bill S is stored and hits a wall on the upper surface inside the case body 1. This is provided with a feeding roller 12B which forms a part of the bill feeding means 12 in a vertically symmetric manner in FIG.

Next, the operation of the above embodiment will be described.

First, at the time of the dispensing operation, the dispensed bill S is pressed by the bill pressing plate 7 in order to suppress flapping or habit of the bill S. The bills S are fed out one by one by the rollers 12A and 12B of the bill feeding means 12 and the peeling roller 12C.

In this case, the bills set in the initial setting can be calculated by a machine by continuously paying out all the bills S to be dispensed in the case body 1 and storing them continuously.

Next, when the dispensing area 1B becomes empty and the deposit area 1A becomes full, the case body 1 is rotated by 180 degrees to exchange the deposit area 1A with the dispensing area 1B. That is, the attachments 2 are attached to the rectangular projections 1E and 1F attached to the left and right sides of the case body 1 described above.
A and 3A are pressed by the coil springs 2D and 3D, and the power is transmitted by the motor 10 via the case rotation drive mechanisms 4 and 5, and the case body 1
Rotate degrees.

Here, immediately before the case body 1 rotates 180 degrees, the bill feeding means 11 and the bill feeding means 1 are rotated.
2, and rotational movement is biased in the external means pivot point O _A, centered on O _B, rotates to the position of two-dot chain line. Then, when the deposit area 1A and the dispensing area 1B are exchanged, they are returned to their original positions.

FIGS. 3 and 4 show another embodiment. In this other embodiment, the intelligent cassette 21 is of a vertically separated type of a deposit area 21A and a dispensing area 21B. Other configurations are almost the same as those of the embodiment of FIG.

Next, a method of exchanging the deposit area 21A and the dispensing area 21B in the embodiment with reference to FIGS. 3 and 4 will be described with reference to FIGS.

The deposit area 21A and the dispensing area 21B
The crane 30 is used for the replacement. The crane 30 is configured to be able to expand and contract in the vertical direction, and at the same time, to be movable in a direction in which the deposit area 21A and the dispensing area 21B are disengaged from each other. 30A is a crane 30
And a guide bar for suspending the crane 30 and guiding the movement of the crane 30.

FIG. 5A shows a state in which the deposit area 21A is removed and the dispensing area 21B is locked. FIG.
(B) is the deposit area 21 removed from the withdrawal area 21B.
A shows a state where A is suspended. FIG. 6 shows a right side view of FIG.

Then, the deposit area 21A thus removed is lowered by the crane 30 in the downward direction (in the direction of arrow A), and then the crane 3 shown in FIG.
0 is raised upward (in the direction of arrow B) in the dispensing area 21B, and subsequently, the deposit area 2 to be located below.
The dispensing area 21B is slid over 1A and united. Thereby, the deposit area 21A and the withdrawal area 21B
Replacement work with is completed.

[0036]

Since the present invention is constructed and functions as described above, according to the present invention, the case body constituting the intelligent cassette is divided into a deposit area and a pay-out area. Since the positions of the deposit area and the dispensing area are exchanged, it is possible to exchange the bills in the dispensing area and the deposit area reliably and promptly without performing operations such as checking bills. Intelligent cassette device can be provided.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a partially omitted longitudinal sectional view showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of the first embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a front view showing a combination state of a pay-in area and a pay-out area in another embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a right side view of FIG. 3;

5A and 5B are explanatory diagrams showing the operation of exchanging the deposit area and the dispensing area in FIG. 4; FIG. 5A shows a state where the deposit area is removed and the dispensing area is locked; B)
FIG. 5C is a view showing a step of lowering the removed deposit area, and FIG. 5C is a right side view of FIG. 5B.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Case main body 1a, 1b Bill inlet / outlet S Bill 2, 3 Case support mechanism 4, 5 Case rotation drive mechanism 6, 7 Bill holding plate 8 Guide roller as bill guide means 11 Bill feeding means 12 Bill feeding means

Claims (3)

(57) [Claims] 1. A case body for storing bills provided with a bill inlet / outlet at one end and the other end, and one and the other cases for supporting the case body at the center portions at both left and right end portions thereof. A support mechanism, and a case rotation drive mechanism for rotating the case body by 180 ° together with the case support mechanism; and a bill inlet / outlet at one end and the other end of the case body. The case body is provided in the same shape at a line symmetrical position with respect to an axis, and is equipped with a bill feeding means corresponding to the one bill inlet / outlet, and a bill payout means corresponding to the other bill inlet / outlet. An intelligent cassette device characterized in that bill receiving plates are separately and independently provided in a deposit area on one end side and a dispensing area on the other end. 2. The intelligent cassette device according to claim 1, wherein a bill guide means is provided on a wall surface along a face of the bill to be fed into the deposit area. 3. The bill feeding means and the bill guiding means, and the bill feeding means have a function of temporarily separating from the case body when the case body rotates. The intelligent cassette device as described.