JP2675923B2 - Cash deposit and withdrawal device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a cash deposit / withdrawal device installed in a financial institution or the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Among counter services and automatic transaction services in financial institutions such as banks, for handling cash with customers,
In recent years, cash deposit / withdrawal devices have been widely used. In addition, the depositing function and the dispensing function are integrated, and among the deposited money, the money that can be reused for dispensing is newly distributed to the denomination storage for dispensing, and the money recirculation used during the dispensing transaction. A number of cash dispensers have been announced one after another.

In such an apparatus, 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 / withdrawing apparatus. After that, by operating the switches that support the loading operation, the coins can be automatically distributed and loaded from the collective storage to the respective coin storages arranged for withdrawal. Therefore, the operation of loading money is only required to attach 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 the money-type storages to the batch storage, the only storages to be taken out from the depositing / dispensing device are the batch storage and the reject storages storing the rejected money. Therefore, the operator's convenience is improved (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 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 displayed on the display provided in the operation section of the apparatus main body. The operator reads this, records it, and inputs the number of sheets to be loaded from the operation unit 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 (Actual exploitation 57).
-106057).

The conventional cash depositing / dispensing apparatus disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 61-289488 will be described below with reference to FIG.

FIG. 13 is a sectional view showing an example of a conventional depositing and dispensing apparatus. This device is mounted on a teller terminal device.

The depositing / withdrawing device 105 includes an upper unit 110,
It is composed of an intermediate unit 111 and a 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. Input port 1
A depositing / separating mechanism 115 is provided on the bottom side of the bottom of the unit 13 for separating the bills that have been thrown in at a time and taking in one by one. A discrimination unit 116 provided for discriminating and detecting authenticity, damage, front and back, overlapping of two or more sheets (overrunning), skewing, etc., 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 section 116, the sorting gate 1
22 is operated by driving a magnet (not shown) to switch the traveling path and send it to the front and back arranging section 117 to align it on the front surface.

The running path 119 is a carrying path provided for delivering the bills guided and carried by the separating gate 123 to the inside of the apparatus to the intermediate unit 111, and the running path 118 is a lower unit 112 and an intermediate unit. 111
Is a conveyance path for inheriting the banknotes conveyed by the traveling path and sending them to the discrimination section 116. When the separating gate 123 is actuated by driving a magnet (not shown), the banknotes conveyed through the discriminating section 116 are sent to the traveling path 120, and are arranged on the inner side of the upper surface of the discharge port by the traveling path 120. It is conveyed to the discharge accumulation unit 121. The banknotes conveyed to the discharge stacking unit 121 are stacked in the discharge port 114, and the teller can collectively pick up the banknotes.

The intermediate unit 111 is a temporary holding unit mainly for each denomination and whether it is a loss or a loss.
5, 126, 127 and temporary holding section 12 by denomination and loss
8,129,130,131 and denomination separating gate 13
6, 137, 138, 139, a withdrawal reject banknote drop-in portion 140, and a traveling path 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 upper unit 110 are received, and the traveling path 141 is received.
Transport in the direction of the arrow.

Here, the conveyed bills are discriminated by the discrimination section 11
When the discrimination result of No. 6 determines that the ticket is a 5,000 yen ticket, the magnet (not shown) is driven to operate the 5,000 yen ticket separating gate 139, and the 5,000 yen ticket accumulating unit 12
Send to 7. The 5,000-yen bill accumulating unit 127 sequentially accumulates the fed bills in the 5,000-yen bill 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 and sent to the 1,000-yen ticket accumulation unit 126, and the 1,000-yen ticket accumulation unit 126 temporarily holds the 1,000-yen ticket. Part 130
Will be accumulated in sequence. If it is determined that the ticket is a ten thousand yen ticket, the ten thousand yen ticket dividing gate 137 is activated and sent to the ten thousand yen ticket accumulating section 125, and the ten thousand yen ticket accumulating section 125 causes the ten thousand yen ticket temporary holding section. 129 sequentially accumulated.

It should be noted that, from the discrimination result of the discriminating section 116, bills judged to be unfit or non-refundable bills (for example, 500-yen bills) and collection from a storage of a denomination to be described later into a collective storage. At the time of processing, the denomination separating gates 137, 13
8 or 139 is not operated, the batch / payment separating gate 136 is operated and sent to the batch / payment stacking unit 124, and the batch / payment stacking unit 124 sequentially transfers the banknotes to the batch / payment temporary holding unit 128. Accumulate.

The withdrawal reject bill dropping unit 140 is
In the withdrawal transaction, a bill taken out from a storage of a denomination to be described later is a transport unit for sending the bill to the reject bill storage described below when the bill is determined to be a non-dispensing bill through the discrimination unit 116. . Temporary storage unit shutter 132,1
33, 134, 135 are connected to one magnet (not shown), and by driving the magnet,
At the same time, the central part rotates downward with the part connected to the side surfaces of the temporary holding parts 128, 129, 130, 131 as the center of rotation. With this operation, the temporary holding units 128, 12
The banknotes accumulated in 9, 130, 131 are dropped and stored in each storage of the lower unit 112.

In the deposit transaction, after the deposit count, when the deposited banknotes are accumulated in the temporary holding units 128, 129, 130, 131, when the teller performs the cancel operation,
The lock of the intermediate unit 111 is released, and the intermediate unit 111 is pulled out forward so that the temporary holding portions 128, 1
The banknotes accumulated in 29, 130, 131 can be taken out. Also, by using the audit key,
At the will of the staff, since the bills remaining in each part of the intermediate unit can be taken out, the bills can be taken out even when a jam occurs.

The lower unit 112 is a batch / deposit storage 1
43, the money type storages 144, 145, 146 and the take-out separation mechanisms 147, 148, 149, 150 from the storages.
And a reject banknote storage 142 and a travel path 151 for conveying the banknotes taken out one by one from the storage.

The 5,000-yen ticket storage 146 has a function of receiving and accumulating the banknotes from the 5,000-yen ticket temporary holding section 131 and a function of feeding out the banknotes one by one by the separating mechanism 150. It is a warehouse.

Similarly, 145 is a storage box for 1,000-yen tickets, 14
9 is a 1,000-yen ticket separation mechanism, 144 is a 10,000-yen ticket storage, 148 is a 10,000-yen ticket separation mechanism, and 143 is a batch /
A storage box for non-payable-receipt tickets 147 is a separating mechanism for batch storage tickets.

The reject bill storage 142 is skewed or 2 depending on the discrimination result of the discrimination unit 116 among the bills fed out from the coin storages 144, 145, 146 in the dispensing transaction.
It is a storage box that stores banknotes that have been determined to be non-dispensable tickets by detecting an overlap (overrun) of more than one sheet.

The traveling path 151 is a conveying path for conveying the bills fed from the collective / payment storage 143 and the denomination-specific storages 144, 145, 146 and sending them to the traveling path 141 of the intermediate unit 111.

The banknote / payment storage 143 and the denomination-based storages 144, 145, 146 serve as optical sensors and are full bill detectors 154a, 154b, 154, respectively.
c, 154d and near full detectors 155a, 155b,
155c and 155d and near-end detectors 156a and 1
56b, 156c, 156d and the end detector 157
a, 157b, 157c, 157d are attached, and are used as means for managing the amount of banknotes in the storage. A full bill detector 153 is attached to the reject bill storage 142 to optically detect the full bills in the reject bill storage 142.

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 rack, 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 by a key to carry out bill loading and withdrawing operations. In the upper unit 110 and the intermediate unit 111, independent motors (not shown) are mounted as power sources for separating, stacking, and transporting bills, and a power transmission mechanism is arranged.

[0027]

By the way, in the apparatus shown in FIG. 13, when the cash is distributed and replenished from the collective storage to the denomination-based storage, the following operation is performed.

FIG. 14 is a block diagram of essential parts for explaining the distribution and replenishing operation of the conventional apparatus.

In the figure, only the collective storage 11, the discrimination unit 4, the temporary holding unit 25, the shutter 35, and the denomination-based storage 9 are shown, and the other parts are omitted.

In the case of distributing cash from the collective storage 11 in the apparatus having the configuration as shown in the figure, first, the collective storage 11
The cash sent to the transport path from is discriminated by the discrimination unit 4. Then, in the case of cash to be stored in the denomination-based storage 9, it is accumulated in the temporary holding unit 25 through the route of the arrow. In addition, cash of other denominations is collected in the collective storage 11 through the route of the arrow.

When a predetermined amount of cash, for example, 100 pieces of cash is accumulated in the temporary holding section 25, the conveyance of cash is once stopped,
The shutter 35 opens, and the cash accumulated in the temporary holding unit 25 is stored in the cash storage 9 of the denomination. The distribution operation for loading cash when the apparatus is activated and the distribution operation for replenishing cash while the apparatus is operating are performed in substantially the same manner.

FIG. 15 shows a distribution / replenishing operation time chart of the conventional apparatus.

As shown in the figure, in the conventional apparatus, when the banknote stacking operation is executed between time t1 and time t2, time t
A temporary hold full detection is performed by the detector obtained in 2. Then, between the time t2 and the time t3, the operation of storing the cash in the storage is executed, and the operation of stacking the bills is started again from the time t3. When the temporary holding full detection is performed again at time t4, the storing operation in the storage case is performed again. After time t5, the same operation is repeated, and the necessary distribution supplement operation is completed.

However, in such a conventional device, the stacking operation of banknotes is periodically interrupted for a predetermined time during the distribution and replenishment operation. Therefore, when a large amount of bills are distributed and replenished, there is a problem that the operation stop time of the device becomes long.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a cash depositing / withdrawing apparatus which speeds up its operation, especially when a large amount of cash is distributed and replenished. .

[0036]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, according to the present invention, there are provided a batch storage for storing a plurality of denominations of cash in a lump, and a denomination-based storage for receiving distribution and replenishment of cash from the batch storage. , A mixed denomination storage for storing cash of a plurality of denominations, a cash distribution means for distributing and replenishing cash from the collective storage to the denomination-based storage, and provided on the denomination-based storage and the mixed denomination storage And a temporary holding unit for temporarily accumulating the cash to be distributed and replenished, and when the amount of cash accumulated in the temporary holding unit on the denomination-based storage during the distribution and replenishment reaches a holding allowable amount, the cash distribution means holds the cash. While switching from accumulating in the temporary holding section with the allowable amount to accumulating in the temporary holding section on the mixed denomination storage, the cash accumulated in the temporary holding section with the holding allowable amount is stored in the denomination-based storage Stored, and on completion of storage, on mixed denomination storage It is intended to switch the integration from accumulation to escrow unit to the escrow unit on money storage box.

With the above structure, according to the present invention, when distribution replenishment is started by the control of the cash distributing means, cash is conveyed from the collective storage to the denomination-based storage, and the temporary storage provided on the denomination-based storage. It is accumulated in the holding section. When the allowable holding amount is accumulated in the temporary holding unit, the transfer of cash is interrupted to the temporary holding unit that has reached the holding allowable amount, and the cash is transferred to the batch storage box provided on the mixed denomination storage box. Are collected and collected. In the meantime, the cash accumulated in the temporary holding unit, which has reached the holding allowable amount, is stored in the denomination-based storage. Upon completion of the storage, the accumulation is switched to the temporary storage unit on the mixed denomination storage unit to the temporary storage unit on the denomination type storage unit.

[0038]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS FIG. 1 is a block diagram of essential parts of a cash deposit / withdrawal device according to the present invention.

This device has a package 50 in the device body 50.
1, a discrimination unit 4, a mixed denomination storage 8 that can be stored regardless of the types of banknotes, a denomination storage for storing banknotes for each denomination (here, a storage for storing 10,000-yen tickets Do)
9. Mixed denomination temporary holding section 2 for further cash accumulation
4, a denomination temporary holding section 25 and shutters 34 and 35 are provided.

Note that other denomination-based storages (for example,
Illustration of denomination-based storages for storing 1,000-yen tickets, etc. is omitted.

Further, the collective storage 11 includes the collective storage 1
A storage management memory 99 is provided in order to manage the counting of cash stored in one. Further, in order to manage the distribution and replenishment of cash by updating the contents of the storage management memory 99 or using the data, a counting management unit 80a, a cash collecting means 80b, and a cash distributing means 80c are provided. ing.

The storage management memory 99 is composed of a random access memory or the like, and the counting management unit 80a, the cash collecting means 80b, and the cash distributing means 80c are each composed of a microprocessor or the like.

The basic configuration and operation of the apparatus according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 1, and then the specific operation will be described with reference to FIG.

<Main Operation of Apparatus> As shown in FIG. 1, cash is started to be conveyed from the collective storage 11 to the conveyance path by the control of the cash distributing means 80c, and the conveyed bills are discriminated by the discrimination section 4. The denominations are distinguished. As a result of the discrimination, when it is determined that the bill is to be stored in the denomination type storage 9 and the mixed denomination storage 8, the paper is conveyed toward the denomination storage 9 or the mixed denomination storage 8 by the route or more. To be done. Other banknotes (other denominations, abnormal banknotes, etc.) are collected in the collective storage 11 through the route.
These routes are selected by the collective isolation gates 16 and 3
2 is controlled.

The amount of cash accumulated in the denomination temporary holding unit 25 and the mixed denomination temporary holding unit 24 is monitored by a detector (not shown), and the accumulated amount is a fixed amount, for example, about 100 coins. When it reaches, the flag 80d including a denomination type temporary holding section full detection flag or a mixed denomination temporary holding section flag is turned on.

FIG. 2 shows a distribution / replenishing operation time chart showing a schematic operation of the apparatus of the present invention.

First, in the apparatus of the present invention, when the distribution / replenishing operation is started, the bills of the corresponding denomination are temporarily held by the denomination holding section 2.
Collect in 5. This integration operation is performed by the operation shown in FIG.
The banknote is conveyed along the route of and is executed from time t1 to t2 in FIG.

At time t2, the money type temporary holding section 25
When it is fully detected, the cash distributing means 80c recognizes this and operates the collective dividing gate 32. Therefore, the bills are accumulated in the mixed denomination temporary holding unit 24, and the distribution and replenishment operation is continued.

On the other hand, the shutter 35 is opened in the denomination temporary holding section 25, which has completed the stacking operation at time t2, and the bills accumulated in the denomination temporary holding section 25 are stored in the denomination storing box 9. . This storage operation is completed at t3, but at the same time as this completion, the operation of stacking banknotes in the mixed denomination temporary holding unit 24 is stopped. After that, cash is accumulated in the money type temporary holding unit 25 from t3 to t4, and the storing operation is performed from t4 to t6.

The money type temporary holding unit 25 starts from time t4 to t.
When the full detection of the mixed denomination temporary holding unit 24 is performed at the time t5 during the storing operation in 6, the feeding of the banknotes from the collective storage 11 is stopped. At time t6, at the same time when the storing operation of the money type temporary holding unit 25 is completed, the cash distributing means 8
0c again operates the batch slicing gate 32, restarts the delivery of the banknotes from the batch storage 11, and continues the stacking of the banknotes of the denomination corresponding to the empty denomination temporary holding section 25. . This accumulation operation starts at time t6 and ends at t
It is executed up to 8.

The banknotes accumulated in the mixed denomination temporary holding section 24 are from the time t6 to the time t7 in the same manner as described above with the shutter 34.
Is opened and stored in the mixed denomination storage 8.

As described above, the apparatus of the present invention has the temporary holding sections 24 and 25 for the mixed denomination storage 8 and the denomination storage 9.
In contrast, the banknotes are alternately conveyed and the stacking operation is continuously executed. In order to store as much cash as possible in the denomination storing box 9, after the storing operation of the denomination temporary holding section 25 is completed, the operation is stopped without continuing until full accumulation in the mixed denomination temporary holding section 24 is detected. The banknotes are accumulated in the denomination temporary holding section 25. As a result, as compared with the operation of the conventional apparatus shown in FIG. 15, it becomes possible to distribute and replenish a large number of bills of the same denomination toward the denomination-based storage in a short time.

FIG. 5 and FIG. 6 show a more specific distribution replenishment operation flowchart of the apparatus of the present invention, and FIG. 7 shows its time chart.

This operation is executed in the apparatus of the concrete embodiment of the present invention described in FIG. 8 and subsequent figures.

Before explaining the flow charts of FIGS. 5 and 6, the overall structure of the automatic teller machine using the cash depositing / withdrawing apparatus of the present invention will be explained.

<Automatic Cash Transaction Apparatus> FIG. 3 is an overall view of the automatic cash transaction apparatus.

FIG. 3 (a) is a front view thereof, and the automatic cash transaction apparatus 51 is provided with a cash deposit / withdrawal apparatus 50, a card reader / writer section 52, a passbook entry machine 53, and a customer operation section 54. ing.

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

Further, FIG. 3B is a rear view of the apparatus, in which an internal operation section 55 is attached.

The internal operation section 55 is an operation key (switch 55a) for inputting items and data corresponding to each transaction when a staff member performs processing such as charging, replenishment and collection of banknotes, and data input by the operation key. And a processing result and the like to guide the operation of the staff member (display 55b).

Further, in FIG. 3A, the control unit 56 indicated by a broken line is composed of a processor or the like which is built in the automatic teller machine 51 and is provided for controlling the operation of each apparatus. Further, the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus 50 shown in FIG. 1 is a main body of the automatic teller machine 51 shown in FIG. 3 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 separated from and pulled out independently. Usually, the rear panel of the automatic teller machine shown in FIG. 3 is opened for taking out.

<Device Block Configuration> FIG. 4 shows a block diagram of a cash depositing / withdrawing device of the present invention.

This device is controlled by the control unit 56 (FIG. 3).
It is controlled by a control signal or the like input to the cash deposit / withdrawal device control unit 80 via the host device control unit interface 81. 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 has an I / O interface circuit 82, a batch storage interface circuit 90, a read only memory (ROM) 83, and a random access memory via a bus line. (RA
M) 84 is connected.

The ROM 83 is a cash deposit / withdrawal device control section 80.
This is a memory for storing the operation program. RAM8
Reference numeral 4 is a memory for temporarily storing parameters and the like necessary for the operation of the cash deposit / withdrawal device controller 80.

To the I / O interface circuit 82, a motor driver 85, a magnet driver 86, a switch reading circuit 87, a photo sensor reading circuit 88, and a bill discrimination control section 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. Magnet driver 86
Is a circuit that is connected to the magnet group 92 of each part of the apparatus and 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 the collective storage 11, the storage 8, which will be described later,
This is a circuit for reading the presence / absence of attachment of the 9, 10 and reject cassette 7 and the states of switches and the like for detecting the position of each stage. The photosensor reading circuit 88 is connected to the photosensor group 94 of each part of the apparatus and the photosensor group 98 provided in the collective storage 11, and the collective storage 11 and the storages 8, 9, 10, which will be described later, 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. This banknote discrimination sensor group 95 includes:
Comprised of various sensors provided inside the discrimination unit 4 shown in FIG.
This circuit is provided to detect the damage, front and back, overrun, and skew.

The collective storage interface circuit 90 reads the stored contents of the storage management memory 99 attached to the collective storage 11 and transfers it to the cash deposit / withdrawal device controller 80 or the cash deposit / withdrawal device controller 80. Is a circuit that updates the contents of the storage management memory 99 in response to the instruction.

The storage management memory 99 is composed of a semiconductor memory or the like which is backed up by a battery or the like and directly accessed by the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus control unit 80. still,
The storage management memory 99 is also integrated with a control unit such as a microcomputer, and is configured to transmit / receive data to / from the cash deposit / withdrawal device control unit 80 via the collective storage interface circuit 90. May be.

As a memory used for the storage management memory 99, in addition to a semiconductor random access memory backed up by a battery, an EEPROM (electrically erasable programmable read memory) in which data is not erased even when power is not supplied is used. 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 individually stores the number of banknotes stored in the batch storage 11 for each denomination.

In addition to this, in order to control various operations of the cash deposit / withdrawal control unit 80, a count management unit 80a, a cash collection unit 80b, and a cash distribution unit 80c are provided. Each of these means controls the circuit of each part of the device through the I / O interface circuit 82 in a predetermined procedure,
It is composed of a sequence program for controlling execution of operations to be 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 conveying the cash stored in the denomination-based storage, and collecting it in the collective storage 11. When there is a shortage of bills in the denomination-based storage, the cash distribution unit 80c confirms the number of denominations stored in the storage management memory 99, and within the range, distributes and replenishes the necessary bills to the denomination-based storage. Control the actions that perform.

8 to 12 show the entire structure of the cash deposit / withdrawal device of the present invention.

The specific operation will be described below with reference to these figures.

<Discrimination Section and Front and Back Arrangement Mechanism> A discrimination section 4 is provided on the lower left side of the service opening 3. This discrimination section 4
Is an apparatus for discriminating and detecting the authenticity, damage, front and back, overlapping of two or more sheets (overrun), skew, etc., of the fed bills. This device also determines the denomination and the like.

On the left side of the service opening 3, a front / back arrangement mechanism 5 is provided. The front-back arrangement mechanism 5 is provided with a separation gate 6. When the banknote determined to be the back side in the discrimination section 4 is sent to the front / back arrangement mechanism 5, the separation gate 6 is driven by a magnet (not shown), and the traveling path is switched each time, and all the banknotes face up. Stacked.

<Batch Storage> On the left side of the device main body 50,
A collective storage 11 is arranged. This bulk storage 11
Is provided with a stage 70 on its upper part, and is provided with a batch separating mechanism 23 for separating the banknotes placed on the stage 70 one by one and taking them out to the outside during a banknote distributing operation. The amount of banknotes stacked on the stage 70 is calculated by the near full detector 38d, the full detector 37d,
It is detected by the end detector 39d.

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

Below the partition plate 33, the collective storage 11
Among the bills distributed from the above, the batch reject stacking unit 68 into which the bills that have been discriminated as non-withdrawable in the discrimination unit 4 are fed is provided. Batch reject unit 62
The amount of banknotes inside is detected by the full detector 40a.

<Deposit type storage and deposit / withdrawal unit> At the bottom of the apparatus main body 50, a mixed type denomination storage 8 and denomination type storages 9 and 10 are arranged.

The mixed denomination storage 8 is a storage for storing 10,000-yen and 1,000-yen tickets. The denomination-based storage 9 is a storage for storing 10,000-yen tickets (hereinafter referred to as a 10,000-yen ticket storage), and the denomination-based storage 10 is a storage for storing 1,000-yen tickets (hereinafter, 1,000-yen tickets It is called a storage). These storage boxes 8, 9, 1
A deposit / withdrawal unit 18 is arranged above 0.

The deposit / withdrawal unit 18 includes a temporary holding section 24 for mixed denominations, a temporary holding section 25 for 10,000-yen notes, a temporary holding section 26 for 1,000-yen notes, a stacking section 27 for mixed denominations, and Accumulation unit 28 for yen tickets, accumulation unit 29 for 1,000 yen tickets, and separating mechanism 2 for mixed denominations
0, a 10,000 yen ticket separating mechanism 21 and a 1,000 yen ticket separating mechanism 22 are provided. In addition to this, a banknote traveling path 49
The denomination separating gates 32, 31, 57 are provided along.

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

After being discriminated by the discriminating section 4, the bills are transferred to the traveling path 4.
When it is transported to 9, the denomination separating gates 32, 3
1, 57 operates, and, for example, in the case of a 1,000-yen ticket, it is sent to the 1,000-yen ticket accumulating unit 29. The 1,000-yen ticket accumulating unit 29 accumulates the 1,000-yen tickets in the temporary holding unit 26. On the other hand, 1,000 yen ticket storage 10
The 1,000-yen tickets taken out from the are separated one by one by the thousand-yen separating mechanism 22 and sent to the traveling path 49.

The ten thousand yen ticket has the same structure.

Further, in the case of the mixed denomination storage 8, the mixed denominations are separated one by one by the separating mechanism 20, and the traveling path 1
Sent to 00.

The banknotes accumulated in the respective temporary holding sections 24, 25, 26 are stored in the respective storage boxes 8, 9, 10 by the shutters 34, 35, 36 being driven by a motor (not shown) to be simultaneously withdrawn. It is configured to fall.

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

<Reject Cassette and Others> Further, collective dividing gates 16 and 15 are arranged between the deposit / withdrawal unit 18 and the collective storage 11. The banknotes that have been conveyed to the collective dividing gate 15 through the conveying path 60 are stored in the collective storage box 11 when the collective dividing gate 15 is used.
Is guided to the collective stacking unit 30 side. Also,
The banknotes sent to the storage boxes 8, 9 and 10 are transferred to the depositing / dispensing unit 1 described above by the batch separating gate 16.
8 is sent to the road 49.

Further, the rejected banknotes are sent to the collective reject unit 62 provided in the collective storage 11 or the reject cassette 7 provided at the left corner of the apparatus main body 50 by the collective separating gate 69.

The batch reject section 62 provided in the batch storage box 11 is provided when the banknotes fed from the batch separation section 23 of the batch storage box 11 are judged to be overrun or skew in the discrimination section 4. It is provided to store the corresponding bill. The reject cassette 7 is provided for storing bills determined to be dispensable or uncollectible for various reasons.

Inside the reject cassette 7, stacking units 66, 64 and full detectors 40b, 40c are also provided. The reject unit 67 accommodates forgotten banknotes, and the reject unit 65 accommodates other rejected banknotes. Further, a door 41 is provided on the back surface of the apparatus main body 50, and by opening the door 41, the collective storage 11 is pulled out to the outside. The denomination-based storages 8, 9, 10 are constructed so that they can be pulled out to the front side.

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

A common lock is attached to the collective storage 11 and the storages 8, 9 and 10, respectively, and the door of each storage (not shown) is opened by using the inspection key to load and remove bills. Can be done.

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 step by step based on the procedures of deposit transaction, withdrawal transaction, supplemental loading process and recovery process.

<Deposit Transaction> FIG. 8 shows a sectional view of the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus of the present invention during deposit transaction.

First, when a customer presses a deposit transaction key (not shown) to insert a cash card into the card reader / writer section 52 shown in FIG. 3 or a passbook into the passbook entry book 53 shown in FIG. Communication is performed between the transaction device 51 and the center. As a result of this communication,
When the identity verification is performed, the control unit 56 of the automatic teller machine 51 shown in FIG. 3 transmits a deposit process start command to the cash deposit / withdrawal device 50.

In FIG. 3, the cash deposit / withdrawal device main body 50.
When receiving the deposit processing start command, switches its internal state to the deposit mode and waits for the customer to set the bill. In this case, the deposit position is selected for the service opening 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. 3 periodically transmits a sense command to the cash deposit / withdrawal device 50. The cash depositing / dispensing device 50 adds the information "there is a bill set in the service port" to the sense command, and returns a response message (response).

Next, the control unit 56 controls the cash deposit / withdrawal device 50.
In response, a deposit count command is transmitted to instruct counting of the banknotes set in the customer service slot 3. Here, the service opening 3 takes a separating position, and a banknote is separated by the service opening separating mechanism.
Separate them one by one and take them into the device. This banknote is an arrow,
It is sent to the discrimination section 4 through the route of. The discriminating unit 4 sequentially performs the authenticity discrimination, the fitness judgment and the detection of the traveling state, and sends the conveyed bills backward. The discrimination unit 4 determines that the ticket is a fake ticket or an abnormally transported ticket by following the route indicated by an arrow, and is transported to the front-back arrangement mechanism 5 to be stacked one by one. Then, the customer service opening 3 is set at the receiving position, and the banknotes accumulated in the front and back collecting and aligning mechanism 5 are sent to the customer service opening 3.

In this way, the deposit reject banknote is
It is returned to the customer through the withdrawal position.

On the other hand, the bill discriminated by the discriminating section 4 as a genuine bill or an unfit bill (non-circulation target bill) is conveyed to the conveying path 60 as indicated by an arrow by operating the separating gate 43. Here, the genuine 1,000-yen ticket is conveyed toward the traveling path 49 of the deposit / withdrawal unit 18 as shown by the arrow, and the 1,000-yen ticket dividing gate 32 is operated to be sent to the 1,000-yen ticket accumulating unit 29. . In this way, the 1,000-yen ticket is temporarily stored in the 1,000-yen ticket storage section 26.
Will be integrated.

Similarly, the genuine ticket of the 10,000 yen ticket is divided into the gate 3
By the operation of 1, the 10,000-yen ticket temporary holding section 2 through the stacking section 28
5 are integrated.

When the deposit counting processing of the bills set by the customer in the customer service slot 3 is completed by the above operation, the cash depositing / withdrawing apparatus 50 sends a response of the deposit counting completion to the control unit 56 shown in FIG. Send it back. In this response,
The number of counted coins for each denomination is added to the returned bills and the non-refunded bills and displayed.

Upon receipt of this data, the control unit 56 calculates the amount of money by denomination and the total amount of money, and the customer operation unit 5 shown in FIG.
4 Display on the display. This data is counted and stored as the number of deposits.

When the customer confirms the amount displayed on the display of the customer operation unit 54 shown in FIG. 3 and presses the confirmation button of the customer operation unit 54, the cash deposit / withdrawal device 50 receives the command. Then, the deposit banknotes accumulated in the temporary holding sections 25, 26 of the respective money type storage boxes 9, 10 are stored in the respective money type storage boxes 9, 10 by simultaneously pulling out the shutters 35, 36 of the temporary storage sections. To do.

If there are 5,000 yen notes and unfit notes, the 5,000 yen notes and unfit notes are put in the collective reject unit 62 of the collective storage 11. Here, 9 million yen ticket storage 9 or 1,000 yen ticket storage 1
0 full detectors 37b and 37c fully detect,
When a banknote of the denomination of the storage that has been fully detected is deposited,
The banknotes are accumulated in the temporary holding section 24 of the mixed denomination storage 8, and the shutter 34 is pulled out to be stored in the mixed denomination storage 8.

<Withdrawal Operation> FIG. 9 shows a sectional view of the cash deposit / withdrawal device of the present invention during a dispensing transaction.

Depending on the customer, the customer operation unit 54 shown in FIG.
When the cash withdrawal transaction key is pressed, the cash card is inserted into the card reader / writer unit 52, and the personal identification number is input, the control unit 56 transmits a command to start cash withdrawal processing to the cash deposit / withdrawal device 50. . When the cash deposit / withdrawal device 50 receives the command for starting 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, when the customer inputs the amount of money of m ten thousand yen tickets and n of 1,000 yen tickets, the end detectors 39a and 39 of the mixed denomination storage 8 and the respective denomination storages 9 and 10, respectively.
b and 39c respectively determine whether or not the end is detected. When any one of the storage boxes is also detecting the end, information that the withdrawal is impossible is added to the command and the response is returned. When the end detection is not performed, for example, the 10,000-yen ticket take-out separation mechanism 21 is operated according to the instruction of the withdrawal count, and m 10,000-yen notes are fed out. The fed banknote is sent to the discriminating section 4 through the travel path indicated by arrows. The discriminating section 4 discriminates whether the bill is a designated banknote, whether the bill is front or back, and whether the bill is normal or not. The banknotes are sent to the front and back arrangement mechanism 5 along the arrow. Since the discrimination unit 4 determines the front and back of the banknote, the separation gate 6 is activated based on the determination result, and the front and back are sorted one by one and stacked on the front and back sorting mechanism 5.

In the discriminating section 4, the bill discriminated as a conveyance abnormal bill is operated by the separation gates 43 and 63,
The route indicated by the arrow is sent to the stacking unit 64 of the reject cassette 7, and is stacked in the deposit / withdrawal reject unit 65.

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 accumulation of 10,000-yen tickets is completed, n sheets of 1,000-yen tickets are taken out from the denomination-based storage 10 that stores the 1,000-yen tickets.

As a result of the above operation, the front and back arrangement mechanism 5
When m 10,000-yen and n-thousand-yen notes specified by the customer are accumulated, the customer service port 3 is set at the receiving position, and the dispensed banknotes accumulated in the front and back arrangement mechanism 5 are placed in the service port 3. The shutter 42 is opened by taking in and switching to the withdrawal position, handing the bills to the customer, and then the shutter 4
Close 2.

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

With this, the withdrawal transaction processing is completed.

When the customer forgets to pick up the banknotes at the service port 3, the banknotes left at the service port 3 are re-separated and fed one by one in the direction of the arrow of the discriminating section 4 to separate the gates 43, 69. And 63 are operated, and this time, they are sent to the stacking section 66 for the banknotes left behind in the reject cassette 7, and are stacked in the reject section 67 for storing the banknotes left behind.

<Loading> FIG. 10 shows a sectional view of the distribution operation, that is, the loading and replenishing operation of the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus of the present invention.

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. After mounting the collective storage 11, the staff member presses the loading key among the operation keys of the internal operation unit 55 shown in FIG. 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. This is to confirm that the banknotes to be loaded are set in the batch storage box 11 in advance. If the end has been detected, the information indicating that the operation is disabled is added and a response is transmitted to the control unit 56. In that case, the loading operation is stopped. After confirming that the end has not been detected, the loading operation is started.

At this point in time, the stored contents of the storage management memory 99 provided in the batch storage 11 and the denomination and the number of banknotes actually stored in the batch storage are not necessarily the same. Absent.

When the loading operation is started, in FIG.
In the cash deposit / withdrawal device controller 80, the drive motor of the batch separating mechanism 23 shown in the batch storage 11 of FIG. 10 is operated via the I / O interface circuit 82 and the motor driver 85. As a result, the banknotes set in the batch storage box 11 are sequentially fed out one by one from the upper side and sent to the discrimination section 4 along the route of arrows ,.

In the discriminating section 4, the denomination discrimination, the authenticity discrimination, the damage discrimination and the traveling state check are performed 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 1,000-yen bill (a bill that is not damaged at all or is a small bill that can be used for withdrawal), the bill is routed to the arrow. And the traveling path 49 of the deposit / withdrawal unit 18,
It is sent to the 1,000-yen ticket accumulating unit 29 via the 1,000-yen ticket dividing gate 32. In this way, the 1,000-yen tickets are accumulated in the temporary holding unit 26 of the denomination-based storage (thousand-yen ticket storage) 10.

If the discrimination result is a genuine 10,000-yen note, the note is operated by operating the 10,000-yen note separating gate 31.
It is sent to the 10,000-yen ticket accumulation unit 28. Then, it is accumulated in the temporary holding unit 25.

The above operation is repeated for each of the storage cases 9 and 10 until the preset appropriate number of loaded sheets is reached.

During this operation, the 1,000-yen ticket temporary holding section 26
When the accumulated number of sheets reaches a holding allowable value, for example, 100 sheets, the operation of the batch separating mechanism 23 of the batch storage 11 is interrupted. Then, by pulling out the shutter 36 of the temporary holding unit 26, the money is stored in the 1,000-yen ticket storage 10. After that, the stage 47 is lowered by a motor (not shown) by a thickness corresponding to the hold allowable value. When the stage 47 descends, the shutter 34 is again brought out and the collective separating mechanism 23 is operated to repeat the loading operation.

For example, when a 1,000-yen ticket storage box 10 is first loaded with a 1,000-yen ticket storage, the 1,000-yen ticket storage box 10 is fully loaded with a predetermined appropriate number of sheets until the full detector 37c detects it. Loading is continued until the 1000 yen ticket is stored.

Similarly, in the case of storing 10,000-yen tickets in the 10,000-yen ticket storage 9, loading is continued until the appropriate number is reached.

This appropriate number of sheets is, for example,
Further, in the depositing transaction, the number is set to an appropriate number while leaving a space for storing bills to be deposited. This may be empirically set 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 the end of the month. The setting is made, for example, by a staff member inputting from the internal operation unit 55 shown in FIG.

Next, the operation of distributing 10,000-yen and 1,000-yen tickets will be described with reference to the flow charts of FIGS.

After the replenishment operation is started, the bills are fed out from the collective storage 11 (step S1), and the discriminating section 4 detects whether the bills are genuine, false, or abnormal (step S).
2). The denomination of the bill is judged (step S3), and in the case of the 10,000 yen bill, it is judged whether or not the full flag of the 10,000 yen bill temporary holding section 25 is "on" (step S4). If the full flag of 10,000 yen ticket temporary holding section is not "ON",
Accumulation of 10,000-yen tickets is executed toward the 10,000-yen ticket temporary holding unit 25 (step S5). Next, it is judged whether or not the accumulation of the ten thousand-yen ticket temporary holding section 25 has become "full" (step S
6) If it is not "full", it is judged whether the collective storage 11 is "empty" (step S13),
Return to step S1.

When the above operation is repeated and a predetermined amount of 10,000-yen tickets are accumulated in the 10,000-yen ticket temporary holding unit 25 and full detection is performed, the 10,000-yen ticket temporary holding unit full flag is set (step S7), the operation shifts to the 10,000 yen ticket storing operation.

In the operation of storing the 10,000-yen ticket shown in FIG. 6B,
A storing operation of storing the banknotes in the 10,000-yen ticket temporary storage unit 25 in the 10,000-yen ticket storage 9 is performed (step 25). At this time, it is determined whether or not the 10,000 yen ticket storage 9 is "full" (step S26). If the 10,000 yen ticket storage 9 is "full", the full flag of the 10,000 yen ticket storage 9 is set (step S27),
If the 10,000 yen ticket storage 9 is not "full", the full flag of the 10,000 yen ticket temporary holding unit 25 is reset (step S2).
5) Then, the storing operation is completed.

It should be noted that, even during the storing operation from the 10,000-yen ticket temporary holding unit 25 to the 10,000-yen ticket storage 9, the feeding of the banknotes from the batch storage 11 is continued. However, the 10,000 yen ticket temporary holding section 2
Since the full flag of No. 5 is "ON", the process proceeds from step S4 to step S8 and the mixed denomination temporary holding unit 24
It is determined whether or not the full flag of is "ON" (step S8). If the full flag of the mixed denomination temporary holding unit 24 is not "ON", the bills are accumulated in the mixed denomination temporary holding unit 24 (step 10). Next, it is determined whether the accumulation of the mixed denomination temporary holding unit 24 is "full" (step S1).
1) If it is not "full", it is judged whether the collective storage 11 is "empty" (step S13),
Return to step S1.

When "full" of the mixed denomination temporary holding section 24 is detected (step S11), the mixed denomination temporary holding section full flag is set (step S12), and the mixed denomination storing operation of FIG. 6A is performed. Move to.

In the mixed denomination storing operation of FIG. 6A, the bills of the mixed denomination temporary holding section 24 are stored in the mixed denomination storage 8.
The storing operation for storing the data is performed (step 20). At this time, it is determined whether or not the mixed denomination storage 8 is "full" (step S21). If the mixed denomination storage 8 is "full", the full flag of the mixed denomination storage 8 is set (step S22). If the mixed denomination storage 8 is not "full", the mixed denomination temporary holding unit is set. The full flag of 24 is reset (step S23), and the storing operation is ended.

At this time, if the full flag of the 10,000-yen ticket temporary holding section 25 has already been reset, the 10,000-yen ticket temporary holding section 25 will be used for the 10,000-yen tickets delivered from the collective storage 11.
Will be accumulated in.

On the other hand, in step S8, if the full flag of the mixed denomination temporary holding section 24 is "ON", the 10,000 yen ticket temporary holding section 25 also has the mixed denomination temporary holding section 24.
Also, the full flag is set to "ON". In this case, the relevant banknotes are collected in the collective storage unit 11 of the collective storage 11 and collected in the collective storage 11.

If it is determined in step S3 that the bill is other than the 10,000-yen bill, it is determined whether the bill is a 1,000-yen bill (step S3).
14), if it is judged that it is not a 1,000 yen ticket, the bulk storage 1
The information is accumulated in the one batch reject unit 62 (step S1).
9).

When it is determined that the ticket is a 1,000-yen ticket, it is determined whether or not the full flag of the 1,000-yen ticket temporary holding unit 26 is "ON" (step S15). Thousand yen ticket temporary holding unit If the full flag is not turned on, one thousand yen ticket temporary holding unit 26
Thousands of yen tickets are accumulated toward (step S1
6). Next, it is judged whether or not the stack of 26 in the 1,000-yen ticket temporary holding section has become "full" (step S17), and if it is not "full", the processing shifts to step 13 described above.

When the above operation is repeated and a predetermined amount of 1,000-yen tickets are accumulated in the 1,000-yen ticket temporary holding unit 26 and full detection is performed, the 1,000-yen ticket temporary holding unit full flag is set (step S18), and shifts to the operation for storing the 1,000-yen ticket.

In the operation of storing the 1,000-yen ticket shown in FIG. 6C,
A storing operation for storing the bills of the 1,000-yen ticket temporary storage unit 26 in the 1,000-yen ticket storage 10 is performed (step 30). At this time,
It is determined whether or not the 1,000 yen ticket storage 10 is "full" (step S31). If the 1,000 yen ticket storage 10 is "full",
Set the full flag of the 1,000 yen ticket storage 10 (step S
32) If the 1,000-yen ticket storage 10 is not "full", the full flag of the 1,000-yen ticket temporary storage unit 26 is reset (step S33), and the storing operation ends.

Next, the distribution operation will be described in more detail with reference to the time chart of FIG.

It should be noted that the collective storage 11 has 200,000 yen tickets.
It is assumed that the banknotes are stored so that the banknotes are paid out in the order of 100, 1000 yen tickets, and 100,000 yen tickets. In addition, when 100 banknotes are accumulated in each of the temporary holding units 24, 25, and 26, "full" detection is performed, and the storage operation time from the temporary holding unit to the storage is 60 continuous banknotes in the temporary holding unit. It corresponds to the time to accumulate.

In the figure, 100 ten thousand yen tickets are accumulated in the ten thousand yen ticket temporary holding section 25 from time t1 to t2. Then, from t2 to t3, the 10,000-yen ticket temporary holding section 25
Is "full", the 10,000-yen bills accumulated in the temporary holding unit 25 are stored in the storage 9, and at the same time, the mixed-denomination temporary holding unit 24
A total of 60 million yen tickets will be collected. When the storing operation of the 10,000-yen ticket temporary holding section 25 is completed, the remaining 40,000-yen notes 40 sheets are accumulated in the 10,000-yen ticket temporary holding section 25 during the period from t3 to t4, and then, between t4 and t5. 100 yen tickets are accumulated in the yen ticket temporary holding section 26.

When the 1,000-yen ticket temporary holding unit reaches 100 sheets, "full" is detected, and the storing operation is performed from time t5 to t7, and the 1,000-yen ticket is stored in the storage case 10. At the same time, time t5
From now on, 1,000-yen tickets will be stored in the mixed denomination temporary holding section 24. However, since the mixed denomination temporary holding section 24 has 60 pieces of 10,000-yen tickets stored between time t2 and t3,
At time t6 when 40 1,000-yen bills are stacked, 100 stacked bills are detected, and "full" detection is performed. At this point, the 1,000-yen ticket temporary holding unit 26 is in the storage operation, so
The banknotes that are continuously fed out from are accumulated in the collective accumulating section 30 of the collective storage 11. Further, the number of 1,000-yen tickets accumulated in the collective accumulating unit 30 of the collective storage 11 becomes 20 because the time for the storing operation of the 1,000-yen temporary holding unit 26 is completed.

The storing operation of the 1,000-yen ticket temporary holding section 26 is time t.
When completed in 7, the remaining 40 yen tickets will be t from time t7
While being accumulated in the 1,000 yen ticket temporary holding section 26 between 8,
The mixed denomination temporary holding unit 24 performs the storing operation from time t7 to time t9. From time t8, 10,000-yen tickets will be accumulated in the 10,000-yen ticket temporary holding unit 25.
Since 5 banknotes have 40 banknotes accumulated between time t3 and t4, 1 banknote is accumulated at time t10 when 60 banknotes are accumulated.
The number of sheets becomes 00, which means "full" detection. Between the times t10 and t12 at which this "full" is detected, the ten thousand yen ticket temporary holding section 25
The storage operation is performed, and at the same time, from time t10 to t11
In the meantime, the remaining 40 ten thousand yen tickets are accumulated in the mixed denomination temporary holding section 24.

In this embodiment, the banknotes fed from the batch storage box 11 from time t6 to t7 are stacked in the batch stacking section 30 of the batch storage box 11, but from time t6 to t7 they are batched. The delivery from the storage 11 may be stopped.

Also, when the mixed denomination storage 8 becomes “full” during the distribution operation, similarly, the banknotes conveyed to the mixed denomination storage 8 are sent to the collective stacking unit 30 of the collective storage 11. However, in the state of "full", the feeding from the collective storage 11 is stopped and the mixed denomination storage 8
The banknotes are distributed from the denominations to the denomination-based storages 9 and 10, and when the "full" state of the mixed denomination storage 8 is released, the payout of the banknotes from the batch storage 8 is restarted. Good. Alternatively, the bill storage capacity of the mixed denomination storage 8 may be made sufficiently larger than the storage capacity of the denomination-based storages 9 and 10.

In the above-mentioned operation of distributing the 10,000-yen ticket and the 1,000-yen ticket, from the temporary holding sections 24, 25, 26 to the storage boxes 8,
The operation of storing in 9, 10 is completed in about 4 to 5 seconds.
On the other hand, the stacking operation of the banknotes in the temporary holding units 24, 25, 26 is advanced at a speed of about 10 sheets per second. Therefore, 10
When stacking 0 banknotes, the time is the sum of the transport time T of the first banknote and the transport time of 10 seconds for 100 banknotes. Therefore, actually, the operation of distributing the 10,000-yen ticket is temporarily suspended.
Can be used alternately, and the operation of distributing the 1,000-yen ticket can be continuously performed by alternately using the temporary holding units 24 and 26.

By the way, even when the banknotes have been loaded into the storage boxes 8, 9 and 10 up to the predetermined proper loading number,
If the denomination still remains in the bulk storage 11,
The separating gates 15 and 16 are operated to collect the conveyed bills in the accumulating unit 30 of the collective storage 11 through the route indicated by the arrow.

This operation is performed on the stage 7 of the collective storage 11.
The bills on 0 are discriminated through the routes of ,,,,, and so on until the bills on the stage 70 are exhausted. 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 not provided with a denomination-type storage, for example, a 500-yen bill in this embodiment, the bill is divided into the sorting gates 15,
16 and 69 are actuated to be sent to the collective reject stacking 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 series of operations described above is completed, the stages 45, 46 and 47 descend all at once, and the banknotes accumulated on these stages are stored in the storage boxes 8, 9 and 10 and loaded. Ends. When the operation ends, the cash deposit / withdrawal device 50 returns a device end response to the control unit 56. At this time, the number data for each denomination loaded in each of the storage units 8, 9 and 10 is transmitted.

Further, the counting management unit 80a is provided for each storage box 8,
While loading the planned number of bills in 9 and 10, the number data of the bills collected in the batch storage 11 is counted again for each denomination. Then, the data is stored in the storage management memory 99 via the collective storage interface circuit 90 shown in FIG. As a result, the storage management memory 99 stores accurate number data for each denomination stored in the batch storage 11 at the end of loading.

<Updating the Storage Management Memory> In the distribution operation, all banknotes are once sent out from the batch storage, and all the banknotes that cannot be distributed are collected in the batch storage and the denominations thereof are collected. The number data is stored as it is in the storage management memory. However, even in cases other than the distribution operation, if the contents of the storage management memory 99 are determined to be abnormal, the cash deposit / withdrawal device control unit 80 (FIG. 8) detects this and automatically stores them. The contents of the warehouse management memory 99 are updated.

In such a case, for example, when the collective storage 11 is attached to the cash depositing / dispensing device and the contents of the depository management memory 99 are suspicious, the power supply has just been turned on to the cash depositing / dispensing device, and the storage is still performed. If the contents of the storage management memory 99 are not reliable, the end detector 3 of the batch storage
Even though 9d does not detect the end, the sum of the number data of denominations in the storage management memory 99 is "0", or the number data exceeding the storable number of the batch storage is stored in the storage management. When the data is stored in the memory 99, a state such as a parity error may be detected at 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, conveyed, discriminated, counted for each denomination, and circulated and collected again in the batch storage box. Then, the number-of-money data obtained by counting is
It is stored in the storage management memory and the process ends.

<Replenishment Operation> Since the replenishment operation is similar to 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. 3), the control unit 56 (FIG. 3) receives this input and instructs the cash deposit / withdrawal device 50 (FIG. 3). Send a replenishment operation start instruction command. The cash deposit / withdrawal device control unit 80 (FIG. 4) sends a command to start the replenishment operation,
When it is received from the control unit 56 (FIG. 3), 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 a designated number of coins for a designated denomination, and the remaining amount of banknotes in one of the storage boxes 9 and 10 during a trading operation is a predetermined number of coins. There is an automatic replenishment mode that is automatically executed when the following is detected.

When starting the replenishing operation, the collective storage 1
The end detector 39d of No. 1 does not detect the end,
That is, it is confirmed that the bills are set in advance. Further, it refers to the data stored in the storage management memory 99 to check whether or not the replenishment target banknotes are stored in the batch storage 11.

In the forced replenishment mode, if the end is detected, a response with information indicating that it is not in the operable state is returned to the control unit 56 (FIG. 3). In this case, the contents of the storage management memory 99 may be unreliable, so that the number of denominations in the storage management memory 99 is all cleared and the process is stopped. Of course, the same processing is performed even in the automatic replenishment mode.

On the other hand, if the end detection is not made and it is judged that the replenishment can be executed within the range of the number of coins stored in the storage management memory 99, the replenishment operation is started. In this case, the batch separation mechanism 2 on the top of the batch storage box 11
3 is operated to take out the banknotes set in the batch storage box 11 one by one from the upper side. This banknote is an arrow,
It is sent to the discrimination section 4 through the routes of ,.

The discriminating section 4 sequentially performs denomination discrimination, genuine / counterfeit discrimination, damage discrimination, and running state check on the fed bills. For example, when the replenishment target banknote is one denomination of either the 10,000-yen note or the 1,000-yen note, as a result of the discrimination by the discrimination section 4,
Banknotes that were determined to be other than the correct bills to be refilled,
,,,,,,,,,,,,
6 is operated and sent to the batch accumulating unit 30 of the batch storage 11.

Then, as described in the loading example, the operation inside the collective storage 11 causes the collective storage to be recovered again. In this case, it goes without saying that the count 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 to trace the route. This banknote is a batch reject unit 6
Accumulated in 2.

When a genuine bill to be replenished has been conveyed, as described in the section of loading, if it is a 1,000-yen bill, the 1,000-yen bill separating gate 32 is operated to activate the 1,000-yen bill. It is sent to the accumulating section 29 and accumulated in the 1,000-yen ticket temporary storage section 26.
If it is a 10,000-yen ticket, the 10,000-yen ticket dividing gate 31 is operated and sent to the 10,000-yen ticket accumulation unit 28. Then, the 10,000-yen tickets are accumulated in the temporary holding section 25.

The above operation is continued until the target number of sheets is replenished. However, when the accumulated number of sheets in the temporary holding section reaches the holding allowable value, for example, 100 sheets, the operation of the batch separating mechanism is interrupted and the holding is stopped. The shutter of the temporary holding unit that has reached the allowable value is pulled out and stored, and the stage of the cassette is lowered by a motor (not shown) by the amount corresponding to the allowable holding value, and the shutter is released again to operate the batch separating mechanism to repeat the replenishing operation.

During the storing operation, the mixed denomination temporary holding unit 2
The banknotes of the corresponding denomination are conveyed to 4, and the replenishment operation is alternately executed. This is the same as described in the distribution operation.

Even if the replenishment number reaches the target value or before the target value, if all 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 collective separation mechanism 23 stops. And
When the last bill reaches the temporary holding units 24, 25, 26, the transport operation is stopped. After that, the shutters 34, 35, 3
6 is pulled out and stored, and the one of the stages 45, 46 and 47 that has performed the refill operation is lowered, and the banknotes accumulated on the stage are stored in any of the corresponding denomination-based storage boxes 8, 9 and 10. The replenishment 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 taken out from the collective storage 11 is obtained from the original data of the storage management memory 99. Is subtracted.

<Recovery Operation> FIG. 11 is a sectional view of the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus according to the present invention during a recovery operation.

When the internal operator 55 (the operation key in FIG. 3) is pressed by the clerk and the recovery key is pressed, the controller 56.
(FIG. 3) receives this input and receives the cash deposit / withdrawal device 50.
(FIG. 3), a command instructing the start of the collecting operation is transmitted.

When the cash deposit / withdrawal device control unit 80 (FIG. 4) receives the command to start the collection operation from the control unit 56 (FIG. 3), it determines whether this is forcible collection or automatic collection. In the case of forced collection, all banknotes are unconditionally collected from the storage boxes 8, 9, 10 into the batch storage box 11. Further, the automatic collection is executed when the number of stored bills in any of the storage boxes 8, 9, 10 exceeds a predetermined number. In these cases, the operation mode is set to the collection mode, and the collective storage 1
It is confirmed that the near-full detector 38d of No. 1 does not detect near-full.

Further, by referring to the storage contents of the storage management memory 99, 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 that no collectable space remains in the collective storage 11 in the forced recovery mode,
A response including the inoperable state information is transmitted to the control unit 56 (FIG. 3), and this processing is stopped. 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, when the banknotes are collected from the 10,000-yen ticket storage 9 containing the 10,000-yen tickets, the 10,000-yen ticket separating mechanism 21 is operated to raise the banknotes stored in the 10,000-yen ticket storage 9. The sheets are sequentially fed out one by one from the above, and sent to the discrimination section 4 through the route of. The discrimination unit 4 sequentially detects the authenticity and the running state of the fed bills and sends the bills backward.

As a result of the discrimination by the discriminating section 4, the banknotes in which two or more sheets are overlapped (double feed), skewed, etc. are passed through the route of, and the collective sorting gates 16 and 15 are operated,
, And is sent to the reject cassette 7.

As a result of discrimination, normal banknotes are sent to the batch accumulating unit 30 while counting. 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 10,000-yen banknote storage box 9 containing 10,000-yen banknotes.

When the number of stacked sheets on the partition plate 33 reaches the stacking allowable value, for example, 100 sheets on the way, the operation of the ten thousand yen ticket separating mechanism 21 is interrupted, and the batch storage described above in the replenishing operation is performed. The operation in the cabinet 11 is executed. The recovery operation for the other storage boxes 8 and 10 is similar.

When the full detector 37d of the collective storage 11 makes a full detection during the collection operation, the collection operation is interrupted and the information is returned to the control unit 56 (FIG. 3). The control unit 56 displays this on a display unit (not shown).

The clerk, looking at the display indicating that the collective storage 11 is full, discharges the banknotes stored in the collective storage 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 opens the door 41 using the inspection key to take out all the banknotes. Thereafter, the collective storage 11 is set and the door 41 is closed by a reverse operation to the above, and the storage management memory 99
After clearing all the contents of “0”, the collecting operation is restarted. After that, when the end detectors 39a, 39b, 39c of all the storage boxes 8, 9, 10 detect the end, the respective separating mechanisms 20, 21, 22 are stopped, and after the last banknote arrives at the batch storage box 11. The transport operation stops.

The cash depositing / withdrawing apparatus which has completed the above processing is
A response to the end of collection is returned to the control unit 56 (FIG. 3), 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, cash deposit / withdrawal device control unit 80 (FIG. 4)
When the collection operation is completed, each storage box 8, 9, 10
The contents of the storage management memory 99 are updated by adding the number of collections of the collection of money by type and the number of storages of the collection of money already stored in the storage management memory 99.

<Automatic Replenishment> FIG. 12 shows a sectional view of the cash depositing / withdrawing apparatus of the present invention during an automatic supplementing operation.

When the remaining amount of banknotes in each of the denomination-based storages 9 and 10 becomes less than or equal to a predetermined number during the transaction operation, the end detector 39d of the mixed denomination storage 8 detects the end and the storage management memory. By referring to the data stored in 105, it is confirmed whether or not the replenishment target bill is stored in the mixed denomination storage 8.

When the bills to be replenished are stored, the bills stored in the mixed denomination storage 8 are fed to the traveling path 100 by operating the separating mechanism 20 of the mixed denomination storage 8.
The dispensed banknotes are discriminated for denominations in the discriminating unit 4, and the denomination separating gates 31 and 32 are operated to put the 10,000-yen bills in the 10,000-yen bill temporary holding unit 25 and the 1,000-yen bills in the 1,000-yen bill temporary holding unit. Collected at 26. When the accumulated number of 10,000-yen notes or 1,000-yen notes reaches the holding allowable value, for example, 100, the operation of the separating mechanism 20 of the mixed denomination storage 8 is interrupted.

By pulling out the shutter 35 or 36 of the temporary holding portion when the accumulated number of sheets has reached the holding allowable value, the paper is stored in the money storage box 9 or 10.

Thereafter, the stage 46 or 47 is lowered by the thickness of the hold allowable value by a motor (not shown). When the stage 46 or 47 descends, the shutter 35 or 36 is again brought out, the separating mechanism 20 of the mixed denomination storage 8 is operated, and the replenishment operation is repeated.

When either of the near-full detectors 38b and 38c of the money-type storages 9 and 10 detects "near-full", the money in which "near-full" is detected among the bills fed from the mixed-denomination storage 8 is detected. The banknotes of the seeds are accumulated in the mixed denomination temporary holding unit 24.

The replenishment operation is completed when there are no bills in the mixed denomination storage 8 or when all the storages 9 and 10 are "near full".

As described above, when the replenishment operation is completed, the cash deposit / withdrawal device 50 returns a response indicating the end of processing to the control unit. At that time, the data of the number of sheets replenished in the respective money type storage boxes 9 and 10 is added. Further, the data of the numbers of the 10,000-yen and 1,000-yen bills stored in the mixed denomination storage 8 again is stored in the mixed denomination storage management memory 105.

In the present embodiment, the number of the mixed denomination storage 9 is one, but it goes without saying that the same holds if a plurality of mixed denomination storages 8 are provided.

[0196]

The cash depositing / dispensing apparatus of the present invention described above provides a mixed denomination storing box for storing mixed denominations in the main body of the apparatus, and temporarily holds the denomination storing box during cash distribution and replenishment. When the fullness of the parts is detected, the cash being distributed is accumulated in the temporary holding part on the mixed denomination storage, so that the operation of distributing the cash from the batch storage can be performed continuously without interruption. As a result, the distribution work is speeded up, the distribution time is shortened, the waiting time of the customer is reduced, and the service is improved.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a main part of a cash deposit / withdrawal device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a distribution / replenishing operation time chart showing a schematic operation of the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an overall view of a cash transaction device.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram of a cash deposit / withdrawal device.

FIG. 5 is a flow chart of the distribution and replenishment operation of the device according to the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a storage operation flowchart of each storage.

FIG. 7 is a distribution replenishment operation time chart of the device according to the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a sectional view of the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus of the present invention during a deposit transaction.

FIG. 9 is a sectional view of the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus of the present invention during a dispensing transaction.

FIG. 10 is a sectional view of the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus of the present invention during a loading (replenishing) operation.

FIG. 11 is a sectional view of the cash depositing / withdrawing apparatus of the present invention during a collecting operation.

FIG. 12 is a sectional view of the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus of the present invention during an automatic replenishing operation.

FIG. 13 is a cross-sectional view of a conventional cash deposit / withdrawal device.

FIG. 14 is a block diagram of a main part of a conventional device.

FIG. 15 is a distribution / replenishing operation time chart of the conventional device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 4 Identification section 8 Mixed denomination storage 9, 10 Money type storage 11 Batch storage 24 Mixed denomination temporary holding section 25, 26 Money type temporary holding section 80c Cash distribution means

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A collective storage for storing cash of plural denominations in a lump, a denomination-based storage for receiving distribution and replenishment of cash from the collective storage, and a mixed denomination storage for storing multiple denominations of cash. A cash distribution unit for distributing and replenishing cash from the collective storage to the denomination-based storage; and a cash provided on the denomination-based storage and the mixed denomination storage to temporarily distribute and replenish cash. A temporary holding unit for accumulating, and when the cash accumulated in the temporary holding unit on the denomination-based storage reaches the holding allowable amount during the distribution replenishment, the cash distribution unit causes the temporary holding unit having the holding allowable amount. To the temporary holding section on the mixed denomination storage box, and the cash accumulated in the temporary holding section having the holding allowable amount is stored in the denomination-based storage box, Upon completion, a temporary storage on the mixed denomination storage The cash dispenser module, wherein the switching to accumulation in the temporary holding section on the denomination repository from accumulation in engaging portion.